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A “When” for the Black Community

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HBCU’s
When the civil war ended, most Schools for the uneducated freed black slaves were created.
There are 104 HBCU’s in the United States , most in the south-eastern part of the country.
Cheyney University of Pennsylvania is recognized as the oldest HBCU in the United States. It was originally the Institute for Colored Youth, opened in 1837, says Wikipedia.
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A “When” for the Black Community

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Racing through African American History
March 6, 2017
This article was written by Rebecca Faundez

Alum’s original play begins production
On April 6 and 7, the Black Students United Association brings the original play A Race Through Time, by Antoinette Anderson, back to the stage for all Cal State Monterey Bay students and faculty. The production team, Christopher Siders, Marquis Crear, Karla Noyles, Jasmine Lottier, Mia Elliott, Kiari Young-Collie, and Antoinette Anderson, want the audience to focus on African-American history from the West African slave trade to current day America; challenging students and faculty to view the Civil Rights movement through a Human Rights Lens. A Race through Time tells different stories throughout the play, showing the perspective of “Black Lives Matter” and hate crimes through three life events.
The production team showed how strong A Race through Time is going to be. They all believe their casts and team members present “nice blends of people with different backgrounds and mindsets coming from different departments on campus and presenting different areas of strengths,” the members of the production team have been on campus for a several years and know the types of awareness they want to bring to CSUMB from hate crimes around campus, people who are scared to talk about events currently happening, and the education of African history and repression that continues to be present.
Anderson hopes this play empowers, educates, and inspires audience members to go out and stand up for what they find to be true activism. The rest of the production team hopes people will no longer be scared to talk about these topics, will be aware of events and to not fight or be angry about what is happening in the world today. Through all the auditions, presentations, advertising, sponsorships, club budgets, and support, the production team of “A Race through Time” hope that through all their challenges and determination to get this play live, people will come out in April to see African American history through a different lens.

Mr. Lonnie Bunch III

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Lonnie Bunch Founding Director of The Smithsonian’s African American Museum of History and Culture. This effort took a lot of people and work to complete. We thank them all and especially Lonnie Bunch III for his leadership, from ground breaking to It’s opening ceremony on September 24, 2016 in Washington D.C.

Ground Breaking Ceremony:

Planning:

Archive Artifacts Storage Area:

Purpose:

All videos can be found on youtube with many more about NMAAHC.

Please visit NMAAHC.si.edu the official museum website.

Opening Day to the Public: September 24, 2016

A “Where” for the Black Community

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Where is the Black community educationally at this time?
You may or may not be familiar with The Common Core Standards for Grades K-12. These standards are set, to show, what a child has learned at the completion of every grade, by testing. It is only for English, Language Arts and Mathematics because they are college preparatory subjects. This method is a State accepted or refused option. At this time at least 42 States have instituted the Standard. It is not a method of teaching a subject so your child can build on what was learned from the previous grade. Teaching methods are left up to the individual school, to accomplish the results asked for to meet requirements. A child learns the alphabet to form and read words and builds on that to form sentences to communicate a thought or tell a story, or read books, etc. Mathematics is similar, because it builds on previous lessons. If a lesson is missed and or not understood a child will fall behind and not understand the following lesson. When this happens, the struggle begins.
If a child can stay current in their class work, they will have very few problems. There is always at least one subject, a child may have a problem with, and may need to spend more time on. Your child’s report card is an important document, to inform you of their progress or problems. Our children are the future of our people and education is the key to advancement.