{"id":9840,"date":"2026-07-04T10:24:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T10:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theezraprojectchicago.com\/?p=9840"},"modified":"2026-07-10T10:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T10:17:09","slug":"arthur-brazier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theezraprojectchicago.com\/?p=9840","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Brazier"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">2017 Arthur M. Brazier Award for Church and Community Advancement <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bishop Arthur Brazier, a pastor, community activist, and civil rights leader whose work extended nationally to rebuild lives and communities across the country. Internationally, Bishop Brazier built a school in Africa and supported mission projects. This award is presented to a church leader who has expanded the work of faith through involvement in national and international ministry, commerce and activism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Arthur M. Brazier - The Activist\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2YRqicaILD0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 <strong>Arthur M. Brazier Award for Church and Community Advancement<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"postBodyCss":"","postBodyMargin":[],"postBodyPadding":[],"postBodyBackground":{"backgroundType":"classic","gradient":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32],"tags":[27,31],"class_list":["post-9840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sankofa","category-sankofa-memorial-index","tag-arthur-m-brazier-award","tag-sankofa-memorial-index"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theezraprojectchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9840","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=9840"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theezraprojectchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10527,"href":"https:\/\/theezraprojectchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9840\/revisions\/10527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theezraprojectchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theezraprojectchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theezraprojectchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theezraprojectchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}