• Professor Leslie Alexander, the Dr. Martin Luther King Professor at Rutgers, will present to social studies classes on Feb. 28. Dr. Alexander specializes in early African American and African Diaspora history, particularly the history of slavery, Black political and intellectual thought, and resistance movements.
• Honors World Cultures will be using the “Black History in 2 Minutes or So” resources offering Black History lessons in short, lively, fact-packed stories.
• African American Experience students will be working on “Creative of Color” project where they will highlight current creatives and activists.
Psychology students are highlighting prominent Black psychologists.
• U.S. History 2 “Harlem Renaissance Choice Board Project” allows student to complete a news article, interview, poem or artwork, or music playlist. Studies include Booker T. Washington vs. WEB DuBois; African Americans in WWI; Tulsa Massacre; Great Migration; and Civil Rights.
AP U.S. History activities include the Harvard Case Study on Martin Luther King and the Museum Project on the expanded Civil Rights movement.
• Students will view, discuss, and write about “Mighty Times: The Children's March,” an Academy Award winning documentary that chronicles how children fought discrimination under Jim Crow in Birmingham, Ala.
• Media Center theme is “African Americans and the Arts” with a display highlighting black artists, writers, actors, and musicians, as well as their impact on the arts and this country.
Radio students will do Black History Month voiceover project and TV students will create a narrative as part of their edit assignment.
•Visual and Performing Arts students will explore the work of local Black artists/performers; performing and experiencing works from Black artists, composers, performers, visual artists and graphic designers; examining social justice and equity issues through art and student-created performances/artwork; allowing room in the classroom structure for student-led exploration and student-introduced content.
• AP Language students will read “A Raisin in the Sun” and analyze non-fiction texts by writers of color. AP Literature students will read “Beloved.”
• English 2 students will read “Binti” by Nnedi Okorafor and works by Octavia Butler. English 1 will analyze poetry by Langston Hughes and Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. English I Honors students will discuss the history of language in literature and culture and research the Civil Rights Movement, Jim Crow, Brown v. Board of Education, Loving v. Virginia, Scottsboro Boys.