Students host assembly in honor Black History Month

A group of Tenacre third, fourth, fifth, and sixth graders collaborated to host an all-school assembly yesterday in honor of Black History Month. The student presenters highlighted remarkable Black Americans who shaped our nation's history, including agricultural innovator George Washington Carver, Olympic champion Jesse Owens, civil rights icon Rosa Parks, groundbreaking actress Hattie McDaniel, school integration pioneer Ruby Bridges, and legendary jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald. Students also featured the stories of young, contemporary Black trailblazers Like Marley Dias, who collected over 9,000 books with Black female characters and donated them to schools around the country, Mo'ne Davis, the first Black girl to play in a Little League World Series game AND pitch a shutout, and Mari Copeny, who worked to end the Flint, MI water crisis.