{"id":9712,"date":"2026-07-03T09:42:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T09:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theezraprojectchicago.com\/?p=9712"},"modified":"2026-07-05T08:25:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T08:25:53","slug":"janiya-brooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theezraprojectchicago.com\/?p=9712","title":{"rendered":"Janiya Brooks &#8211; incomplete"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">2019 Michael &amp; Rosa Sailes Legacy Award <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Rev. Frank C. Walton <\/strong>was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was the 4<sup>th<\/sup> of 8 children born to Robert and Joetta Walton who always celebrated faith and Gospel music. Frank accepted Christ at the age of 5 at the church where his uncle, J. L. Walton served as the pastor, Calvary Baptist Church in Chicago. Frank grew up surrounded by Gospel music. The famous recording artist Arthur Scales was his father\u2019s best friend. Frank\u2019s father and uncles were known as The Walton Brothers, a Gospel A Cappella group that performed across the country. They were the first live group featured on the renown Isabel Joseph Johnson radio program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 Michael &amp; Rosa Sailes Legacy Award<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"postBodyCss":"","postBodyMargin":[],"postBodyPadding":[],"postBodyBackground":{"backgroundType":"classic","gradient":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32],"tags":[23,21,31],"class_list":["post-9712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sankofa","category-sankofa-memorial-index","tag-michael-rosa-sailes-legacy-award","tag-michael-sailes-legacy-scholars","tag-sankofa-memorial-index"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theezraprojectchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theezraprojectchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theezraprojectchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theezraprojectchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theezraprojectchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9712"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theezraprojectchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9885,"href":"https:\/\/theezraprojectchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9712\/revisions\/9885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theezraprojectchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theezraprojectchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theezraprojectchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theezraprojectchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}