{"id":11453,"date":"2025-07-18T18:21:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T18:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bill-clay-sr-founding-member-of-congressional-black-caucus-dies-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T18:21:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T18:21:55","slug":"bill-clay-sr-founding-member-of-congressional-black-caucus-dies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bill-clay-sr-founding-member-of-congressional-black-caucus-dies-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Clay Sr., founding member of Congressional Black Caucus, dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Rep. Bill Clay Sr. (D-Mo.), one of the 13 founding members of the Congressional Black Caucus and an icon in Missouri&rsquo;s civil rights movement, died this week, the CBC said. &ldquo;Congressman Clay helped build the CBC into a force for equity and accountability in American Democracy,&rdquo; caucus Chair Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.) said Thursday in a press statement&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/07\/17\/congress\/bill-clay-sr-cbc-dies-00460418\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Rep. Bill Clay Sr. (D-Mo.), one of the 13 founding members of the Congressional Black Caucus and an icon in Missouri&rsquo;s civil rights movement, died this week, the CBC said. &ldquo;Congressman Clay helped build the CBC into a force for equity and accountability in American Democracy,&rdquo; caucus Chair Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.) said Thursday in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}