{"id":4491,"date":"2023-09-01T15:11:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T15:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=4491"},"modified":"2023-09-01T15:11:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T15:11:57","slug":"students-showcase-talents-during-nabjs-apollo-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/09\/01\/students-showcase-talents-during-nabjs-apollo-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Students showcase talents during NABJ&#8217;s Apollo Night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 As Welcome Week continued, students showcased their hidden talents at Apollo Night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students sang, rapped, and danced on the big stage during Apollo Night in the Trojan Center Ballrooms. Apollo Night is an annual event that takes place during Troy University&#8217;s Welcome Week. The talent show is hosted by the National Association of Black Journalists (<a href=\"https:\/\/nabjonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NABJ<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It was just really fun,&#8221; said participant Shaquoria Marsh. &#8220;I had a really good time. It was nice to get back on campus, being a part of Welcome Week.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not only did the show give participants a chance to express their skills, audience members got to participate, too. Students were able to vote for the winner of the talent show and compete for door prizes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s basically to show off other people&#8217;s talents,&#8221; said NABJ President Dylan Seymore. &#8220;If someone could sing, if someone can dance, someone&#8217;s got comedy, we want to put the spotlight on them. That way they can show off their talents and basically show off their own brand.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apollo Night also served as a fundraiser for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgca.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Boys and Girls Club<\/a>. Guests were encouraged to make a $5 donation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We want to give back to the community, we want to host the workshops for our students, we basically want to have a presence for black journalists on campus.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more about NABJ, visit its website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 As Welcome Week continued, students showcased their hidden talents at Apollo Night.<\/p>\n<p>Students sang, rapped, and danced on the big stage during Apollo Night in the Trojan Center Ballrooms. Apollo Night is an annual event that takes place during Troy University&#8217;s Welcome Week. The talent show is hosted by the National&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/09\/01\/students-showcase-talents-during-nabjs-apollo-night\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":4492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1069],"topics":[17],"class_list":["post-4491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-nabj","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4491"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=4491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}