{"id":9817,"date":"2026-07-04T09:49:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T09:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theezraprojectchicago.com\/?p=9817"},"modified":"2026-07-05T08:08:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T08:08:30","slug":"journey-briscoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theezraprojectchicago.com\/?p=9817","title":{"rendered":"Journey Briscoe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">2023 Michael Sailes Legacy Scholars <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Journey Briscoe<\/strong> is currently a freshman at North Carolina A&amp;T State University in Greensboro, North Carolina with a major in Journalism and Mass Communication Production with her eye on sports journalism. A 2023 graduate of Muchin College Prep High School in Chicago, Journey achieved a G.P.A. of 4.458.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/theezraprojectchicago.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Journey-and-family.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9823\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7500128779683717;width:332px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theezraprojectchicago.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Journey-and-family.jpg 600w, https:\/\/theezraprojectchicago.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Journey-and-family-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Journey sees sport journalism as a platform for community engagement and an opportunity to particularly highlight the accomplishments of African American athletes in order to challenge stereotypes, inspire young athletes, and promote positive role models within the Black community. A member of the Apostolic Church of God, Journey has also been active in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> Ward and has received a commendation from her alderman. In addition, her community service has included organizing peers to provide projects that fed the homeless, created care bags during the pandemic, and donated over 100 new library books to Advocate Children\u2019s Hospital. Journey is an Ezra Project Sankofa Memorial Scholar.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2023 Michael Sailes Legacy Scholars<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"postBodyCss":"","postBodyMargin":[],"postBodyPadding":[],"postBodyBackground":{"backgroundType":"classic","gradient":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11,32],"tags":[23,21,31],"class_list":["post-9817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sailes-legacy-scholar-award","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\/9817","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=9817"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/theezraprojectchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9875,"href":"https:\/\/theezraprojectchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9817\/revisions\/9875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theezraprojectchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theezraprojectchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theezraprojectchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theezraprojectchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}