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Conwell News: Black History Month Assembly – Celebrating The Black Culture

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by A. Snowden – 62 – CCB Reporter

Conwell Middle Magnet School hosted a live Zoom event on Feb. 28 in celebration of Black History Month. The event included five Conwell Cougars.Blog produced interviews by Conwell students and staff about their African heritage.

The event was created by Conwell’s Black History Month Committee, and featured:

  • CCB student Interviews
  • African Music
  • African Dances
  • Different Flags
  • Different foods
  • Posters of Black History
  • Colorful slideshows about Black History

Students were dancing, singing, and there were positive feedback all around!

“The Celebration was really interesting to see and learn about all the foods”, J. Rivera of section 6 – 2 stated as she described what it was like to see this presentation. ” I would defiantly see this again.”

Check out the student video interviews that were featured in the school assembly:

N. Fanfan-83 CCB Contributor interviews A. Mejias about her Dominican Republic heritage.
K. Velasquez-83-CCB Lead Graphic Artist interviews L. Victoriano-83 about her Trinidadian heritage.
M. Hernandez – 61 – CCB Contributor interviews O. Colon about her African American heritage.
A. Mejias-83 – CCB Contributor interviews Conwell Middle Magnet School’s Nurse Tosin about her Nigerian Heritage.
A. Mejias – 83 – CCB Contributor interviews N. Fanfan-83 about her Haitian heritage.

Editor’s Note: Videos were produced by members of the CCB Graphic Arts Team: K. Velasquez-83, A. Vega-82, and A. Peralta – 83.

Posted by A. Snowden.-62- CCB Staff

COUGARS ART CORNER: Drawing of Fannie Lou Hamer

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This is a Drawing of Fannie Lou Hamer, an African American Civil Rights activist in the 1960s, who may be best remembered for her effort to bring hundreds of college students of all backgrounds, races and creeds to help with African American voter registration, according to womenhistory.org.

The artist, Conwell Middle Magnet Student N. Holland said that she made this depiction of Fannie Lou Hamer because, according to Ms. C. Green, special education assistant, N. Holland was asked to draw the image of the Civil Rights activist as they were reading a book about her in class.

Edited by J. Boggs-Mendaloski -61 CCB Staff and Posted by CCB Staff

If you’d like to submit your artwork for publication, email gdungan@philasd.org

CCB CONTEST: African American Greats in Black History Month

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Contest By Y. Hiraldo – 61 – CCB Editor — With Graphic Arts by N. Champion – CCB Staff — With reporting by R. Rowan – 72 – CCB – Editor

The Conwell Cougars Blog will be holding another contest in honor of Black History Month, and we’re focusing it around the amazing bulletin board outside of Room 108, titled  “Black History Month, Celebrating African American Greats”  where students can match impressive historic facts with the correct African American figures.

In order to enter this contest, you must:

1. Read the bulletin board next to room 108

2. Match at least ONE fact from the Room 108 Bulletin Board article to the person! 

3. First three students to comment the correct matches will win a CCB-Sponsored free pass to the next Cougar – Cash in or get their name automatically on the PRIZE WHEEL!!! 

“You may not recognize some of these people,” Ms Clark said, explaining that she had chosen these individuals in order to increase their popularity. “ We want to spread a little light!”

Students can make their comments by scrolling to the bottom of this post under where it says: LEAVE A REPLY.

The deadline is Feb. 22 at 2:30 p.m.

See slideshow gallery above for more details on how to enter the contest!

Posted by CCB Staff