Thursday, February 23, 2012
Fifth grade students at the Essex elementary school gain a greater understanding of the civil rights movement thanks to an engaging lesson from Freedom's Feast.
Leo Tompkins knew who the Rev. Martin Luther King was and how he led the civil rights movement. But Tompkins, a fifth-grader at Mars Estates Elementary School in Essex, did not understand just how deep segregation once ran throughout the country. He just didn’t understand why whites and blacks once couldn’t drink out of the same water fountain, eat at the same restaurant or sit together on a bus. “Why would whites think there is anything wrong with drinking out of the same water fountain?” asked Tompkins, 10, who is white. “We’re all the same.” It was questions like that and the discussion that followed that Lee Myerhoff Hendler wanted to engage as she spoke to Mars Estates fifth graders this week as part of a lesson on civil rights during…
Friday, February 17, 2012
Members of AARP Maryland joined Liberty Elementary School third-graders in a visit to the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial.
Two generations of African Americans—one approaching retirement, one approaching middle school—traveled by bus this week from Baltimore to visit the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial in Washington DC to celebrate Black History Month. Although the two groups—adults from AARP Maryland’s Experience Corps and third-grade students from Liberty Elementary School in Baltimore—hail from vastly different generations, the very freedoms they both share were just a dream nearly five decades ago when King delivered his famous speech in Washington. At the time, most of the AARP members involved in Thursday’s trip were just children themselves. So escorting a group of students to the memorial was, in part, a fulfillment of one portion of King's …
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Gabrielle Williams will present her speech on Feb. 19 at the Reginald Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture
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Sunday, February 12, 2012
Kenwood freshman Gabrielle Williams has been selected as a semifinalist in the 2012 Black History Oratory Contest sponsored by WJZ-TV and several local businesses. The annual contest is open students in grades 9-12 who submit an essay of 600 words or less that addresses one of three famous quotes. Williams, who is in the International Baccalaureate program at Kenwood, focused her essay on a quote from Malcolm X. As a result of being selected, she must memorize her speech and present it to a group of judges and an audience on Feb. 19 at the Reginald Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture. The top three orators chosen by the judges will receive a cash award from WJZ and a scholarship from Toyota Financial Services.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
The work of Dr. Levi Watkins, who performed the world’s first human implantation of the automatic implantable defibrillator in 1980, is on display at the Essex Library.
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Alicia Larkins and Nova Smith traveled to the Essex Library recently to utilize its job search resources. However, once inside, Larkins, of Essex, and Smith, of Middle River, were drawn to a display commemorating Black History Month. The display explored the accomplishments of Johns Hopkins cardiac surgeon and professor Dr. Levi Watkins. Dr. Watkins was a member of Dr. Martin Luther King’s young “Crusaders” and was the personal physician of civil rights pioneers Rosa Parks and Rev. Ralph Abernathy. Watkins served as the first black chief resident in cardiac surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he performed the world’s first human implantation of the automatic implantable defibrillator in 1980. Larkins and Smith told library officials …
Cassandra Umoh
7:29 am on Friday, February 24, 2012
Thank you for the education lession. I have never heard of the activist you mentioned. There are so many who made the sacrifice and were chosen to go through so much for future generations. more ›