Amazon and Amazon seller, Black Business Accelerator participant and Oprah’s Favorite Things featured company, Brown Toy Box surprised nearly 300 students with STEAM kits for the holidays during a special assembly at Atlanta Public Schools’ Humphries Elementary School Dec. 7. STEAM education is an integrated approach to learning that combines science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics. With the help of Brown Toy Box character “Oscar” the Marine Biologist and Mrs. Clause, Amazon employee volunteers distributed Brown Toy Box STEAM kits containing puzzles, coding, journals, memory games, window clings, activity books,…
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How to Make Kwanzaa Magical for Kids – A First-Timer’s Guide Ever thought about celebrating Kwanzaa with your kids but didn’t quite know where to start? Well, meet Omobola, the brains behind Teni & Tayo. She’s a mom on a mission to make Kwanzaa cool for her kids and for kids across America. Omobola had never celebrated Kwanzaa before, but when her daughters asked why, she couldn’t come up with a good reason. So, she made a promise – next year, they’d dive into all the Kwanzaa festivities and make…
Phoenix SC Massacre Remembered, 125 Years Later at Dr. Benjamin E. Mays Historical Preservation Site
Phoenix SC Massacre Remembered, 125 Years Later at Dr. Benjamin E. Mays Historical Preservation Site
Though not commonly taught in most American history classes, neither at the high school or collegiate levels of education, there have been several instances of attempts of racial and ethnic cleansing or terrorism due to race in America. There were horrible acts against Native Indigenous Americans, Pacific-Americans, and Blacks / African-Americans throughout the United States, whereby these groups were expunged from towns under threat of mob rule, with an intent to harm and / or eliminate these ethnic communities. These such incidents enumerate: From the 1700s to 1860, there were…
So, Just who is Dr. Candace M. Lewis? She comes from central Florida. Ocala, to be exact, and was educated in the Florida School System. After high school, she attended The University of Florida in Gainesville, where she earned a BS in communications. While in college, she heard a “calling,” and after graduating from The University of Florida, she applied to and attended Gammon Theological Seminary. While at Gammon, she excelled in her studies and exhibited leadership qualities in many clubs and organizations. In June 2000, she graduated from the…
Azira Gonzalez Hill Born in Cuba, Azira Gonzalez Hill came to the United States to attend Boyland Haven boarding school in Jacksonville, Florida. She later attended Bethune-Cookman College and Grady Memorial Hospital School of Nursing. While at Grady, she worked as a staff nurse and clinical instructor. It was during her years at Grady that she met her husband of fifty-seven years, Jesse Hill, Jr. They married in 1955 in Holguin, Cuba. A lover of music, inspired by her large musical family in Cuba, Azira Hill was energized to volunteer…
While life in the AU Center appeared to be business as usual, on October 12, 2023, something special happened across the street from Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University. At the Absalom Jones Episcopal Center, located at 807 Student Movement Boulevard, a crowd gathered to join in an occasion for an Atlanta music icon. Dr. James H. Patterson, professor at Clark Atlanta and Director of the Clark Atlanta University Jazz Orchestra, celebrated with friends and family the release of his first book. Not only was the date special because of…
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