Yesterday the school participated in a field trip inviting the entire school to watch a movie called "Hidden Figures". The movie was about African American's fight for equality during the 1960's involving NASA and the African American workers and their respective roles. You can check out the trailer of the movie here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wfrDhgUMGI
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Ryan Covacks, FFA Teacher
The FFA program at Southside High school covers the New Farmers of America during the Black History Month of February. The New Farmers of America (NFA) was an American youth organization of African-American farm boys studying agriculture in public schools throughout 18 states in the eastern and southern United states. The NFA started in 1927 in the state of Virginia, and merged in 1965 with the Future Farmers of America organization. Until 1935, all NFA associations were known only by the name of each respective state. In August 1935, representatives from all New Farmer state associations met in Tuskegee and formed the National Organization of New Farmers of America with a tentative constitution and by-laws. Timothy Ratliff, American History Teacher I have a discussion board in my American History 2 classes where students read an article comparing and contrasting Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois. The article focuses on their competing strategies on how to deal with the racist Jim Crow laws and segregation in the South as well as De Facto segregation in the North. Students then have to write a post arguing which strategy African American leaders of today should use in tackling issues such as income inequality, police shootings, etc. and then read another student's post and comment on it. Link to article: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/race/etc/road.html Katherine Deatherage, Health Science Teacher We are currently studying men/women who made historical contributions to health care. Dr. Ben Carson is one of the people we are studying in our curriculum. He is one of the most skilled and accomplished neurosurgeons today. Two of his most remarkable surgeries include the 1987 separation of Siamese twins from West Germany - the first surgery to separate occipital craniopagus twins (meaning they were joined at the head near the occipital bone) and the 1997 operation to separate 11 month old boys, joined at the top of the head looking in opposite directions. Coming from the inner-city streets of Detroit to the halls of Yale, to accomplishing so much, he truly is a great example. Artist Statement By Emily JacksonStop Telling Women To Smile
This painting of Simone Henry was inspired by the artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh. Tatyana’s work addresses the problem of harassment toward women and she combats this problem with bold street art. Her movement is called “Stop Telling Women To Smile.” She creates large murals of women of various nationalities and races to make a bold presence for women where they’re so often made to feel uncomfortable and unsafe - city streets. “The work attempts to address gender based street harassment by placing drawn portraits of women, composed with captions that speak directly to offenders, outside in public spaces. “ - Tatyana Fazlalizadeh I mimicked her art style by using just black and white to create a strong contrast like Tatyana does and really only focused on my model, Simone Henry’s face. I wanted Simone’s unsmiling face to appear strong and bold. I chose this particular artist because she incorporates all minorities in her work, which is shown on streets world wide. Whether you’re a woman, black, trans, gay etc. you should be treated with respect and kindness. <3 Artist Statement By Chyna LopezThis portrait and style of Jimi Hendrix was inspired by the artwork of Mickalene Thomas. Mickalene Thomas is an African-American artist that is popular for her detailed work. What really attracted me to Mickalene’s art was the pop-art style of her portraits. As soon as I saw her work, I immediately had ideas popping up in my head. Her portrait of Michelle Obama was what really sparked me to do this portrait. Since Mickalene painted a very well known black figure, I wanted to do the same thing. I chose to do a portrait of Jimi Hendrix because I’m just a huge fan of his work and I think he is a great African-American figure to represent for Black History Month.
For this painting, I first sketched it out in pencil and colored it with acrylic paint. I happen to be a huge fan of Jimi Hendrix’s song “Purple Haze”, so I thought doing a purple background would fit this portrait. |
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