Black History Month
APS Today doesn’t have to travel far to locate hometown heroes for our celebration of Black History Month.
THE EDUCATION OF MS. GROVES: The NBC Dateline special, profiling Young Middle School teacher Monica Groves has received a second broadcast award. APS Today goes inside Ms. Groves’ classroom to learn what she has learned from her students since becoming a Teach for America teacher.
LACHANDRA BUTLER BURKS PROFILE: From Miles Elementary School to Harper High School to the chairmanship of the Atlanta Board of Education, LaChandra Butler Burks has been on the ultimate APS journey.
JASMINE GUY PROFILE: Before she starred as a collegiate southern belle on A Different World, Jasmine Guy was a student at Peeple Street Elementary, Sutton Middle School and Northside High School. Her mother and stepfather both worked for Atlanta Public Schools. In fact, she based the character “Whitley Gilbert” on the mannerisms of one of her APS teachers.
VERNON JORDAN PROFILE: Although he is best known as a civil rights attorney, head of the National Urban League and advisor to former President Bill Clinton, Vernon Jordan says his first call to civic participation came when he and Maynard Jackson were band mates at David T. Washington High School.
RUSSELL CONSTRUCTION PROFILE: While a student at David T. Howard High School, Herman Russell built a duplex, his first rental property and the beginning of a construction empire.
NEWSBRIEFS: Topping this months newsbriefs:
- Venetian Hills gets a new look in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday
- M. Agnes Jones is home to the area’s first Kool Zone
- Brown Middle School hosts a poetry slam
- APS is honored the Georgia Department of Education as a distinguished Title I district
- APS Superintendent Dr. Beverly Hall hosts a fireside chat with the Cascade community
- APS students celebrate the life of MLK with Teach-ins
DOUGLASS HS JROTC-MLK CELEBRATION: The 23rd annual state commemoration of the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. began with the presentation of the colors by the award-winning Douglass High School JROTC.
