{"id":8660,"date":"2019-03-29T12:21:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T12:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/?p=8660"},"modified":"2019-03-29T12:22:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T12:22:12","slug":"jay-z-to-be-honoured-with-presidential-award-at-naacps-50th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/jay-z-to-be-honoured-with-presidential-award-at-naacps-50th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay-Z To Be Honoured With Presidential Award At NAACP\u2019s 50th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Shawn Carter,<\/strong> <strong>American Rapper, properly known as Jay-Z, as his stage name, would on Saturday, receive the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP)\u2019s Presidential Award.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award would form part of the activities marking NAACP\u2019s 50th anniversary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It would be in recognition of Jay-Z\u2019s special achievements and distinguished public service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NAACP\u2019s president, Mr Derrick Johnson, disclosed this in a press statement he released to Internet Movie Database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<em>News Agency of Nigeria reports<\/em>\u00a0that Jay-Z, 49, has had a prolific career as both a musician and a business mogul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had won 22 Grammy awards and sold over 100 million albums worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is also the president of Def Jam Recordings and the co-owner of the global streaming service, TIDAL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Johnson, the NAACP is honouring Jay-Z based on his commitment to social activism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe President\u2019s award is an honour we carefully bestow upon an individual, maintaining its significance and commitment to recognising excellence in service that directly affects our community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShawn Carter has been committed to shedding light on the issues that plague the black community including systematic racism and unjust treatment under the law, utilising his global platform to create everlasting change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHis Shawn Carter Foundation helps socio-economically disadvantaged individuals in pursuit of higher education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Reform Alliance, which he co-founded, seeks to reform the criminal justice system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere is no better time than now, as we celebrate our 50th year, to honour him with this award.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shawn Carter born on December 4, 1969, is also a songwriter and a record producer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>NAN<\/em>&nbsp;reports that past recipients of the President\u2019s Award include: Jesse Jackson, Lauryn Hill, Soledad O\u2019Brien, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and Muhammad Ali.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(NAN)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shawn Carter, American Rapper, properly known as Jay-Z, as his stage name, would on Saturday,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2356,1326,2353,2355,2358,2354,2360,2359],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8670,"href":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8660\/revisions\/8670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}