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<\/a><\/p>\nOn Friday February 20th, BSU (Black Student Union) <\/a>held Concordia Chicago\u2019s first Ebony Ball in the OPRF room. An Ebony Ball<\/a> is a traditional dance that began in the late 1980\u2019s.The theme of this Ball was Harlem Nights, and the plan was to dress like they did during harlem nights<\/a>:\u00a0big boas, suit and ties, and lots of pearls! There was live music, a DJ, professional photographers, a poet and tons of dancing. The fun began when the doors opened at 7.<\/p>\n Check out more at:<\/p>\n https:\/\/crflindblhm.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/09\/harlem-nights-concordia-chicagos-ebony-ball\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Hailey Lindblom On Friday February 20th, BSU (Black Student Union) held Concordia Chicago\u2019s first Ebony Ball in the OPRF room. An Ebony Ball is a traditional dance that began in the late 1980\u2019s.The theme of this Ball was Harlem Nights, and the plan was to dress like they did during harlem nights:\u00a0big boas, suit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":1418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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