{"289841":{"#nid":"289841","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Africa to Top CIty\u0027s International Agenda in 2014","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAtlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said at City Hall that the African continent would be \u201cat the forefront\u201d of the city\u0027s international agenda during 2014 coinciding with \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.africaatlanta.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAfrica Atlanta 2014\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a citywide year-long series of events.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAs the city\u0027s presence grows on the international stage,\u201d he said. \u0022I am honored to be an honorary co-chair of the Africa Atlanta 2014 program.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Africa Atlanta program is to include a wide variety of artistic, business and educational events, and began in earnest with the opening of the \u0022Mapping Place: Africa Beyond Paper,\u0022 an exhibition at Georgia Tech\u0027s \u003Cstrong\u003ERobert C. Williams Paper Museum\u003C\/strong\u003E featuring hand-drawn and colored 16th century paper maps among other African artifacts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMr. Reed cited both the city\u0027s historic ties with Africa and the continent\u0027s emerging growth as reasons for highlighting present ties and encouraging new ones.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJoining the mayor for his endorsement of the program were its organizers Jacqueline J. Royster, dean of the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0027s \u003Cstrong\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003C\/strong\u003E, and Genevieve Verbeek, consul general of Belgium in Atlanta. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERead the full article at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.globalatlanta.com\/article\/26785\/africa-to-top-citys-international-agenda-in-2014\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGlobalAtlanta.com\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAtlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said at City Hall that the African continent would be \u201cat the forefront\u201d of the city\u0027s international agenda during 2014 coinciding with \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.africaatlanta.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAfrica Atlanta 2014\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a citywide year-long series of events.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said at City Hall that the African continent would be \u201cat the forefront\u201d of the city\u0027s international agenda during 2014 coinciding with Africa Atlanta 2014, a citywide year-long series of events."}],"uid":"27889","created_gmt":"2014-04-10 13:22:35","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:11","author":"Beth Godfrey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-04-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-04-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"289831":{"id":"289831","type":"image","title":"Africa Atlanta press conference","body":null,"created":"1449244274","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:51:14","changed":"1475894986","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:46","alt":"Africa Atlanta press conference","file":{"fid":"199205","name":"pressconference.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/pressconference_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/pressconference_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":31925,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/pressconference_0.jpg?itok=3WG3CwyF"}}},"media_ids":["289831"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.globalatlanta.com\/article\/26785\/africa-to-top-citys-international-agenda-in-2014\/","title":"Read the full article"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}