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Black History Month

Tariq Washington Named Student-Athlete for February

Our Student-Athlete of the Month is Tariq Washington. Tariq’s dedication to bettering himself and his peers has been slow and steady, but it has not gone unnoticed. For quite some time, Tariq was able to get by on pure talent and intelligence, but he vastly improved this month because he realized he could do so much […]

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Our Week in STEM

By Veeshan Narinesingh, STEM program leader This week in their STEM sessions, our young men worked on PowerPoint presentations for Black History Month. Their presentations celebrated the long history of African American innovators, with a focus on Dr. George Grant, a son of former slaves and one of the first African Americans to graduate from Harvard’s dental […]

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‘The Birth of a Nation,’ Then and Now

During February, our students’ character education classes are focusing on Black History Month. Last week, Program Coordinator Reggie Mays Jr. tackled two movies with the same title and drastically different viewpoints. Nate Parker wrote, produced, directed and starred in “The Birth of a Nation,” a new film that tells the story of Nat Turner’s 1831 […]

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