An elementary school in Iberia Parish was the first in the area to make historic changes during the Civil Rights Movement. Black and white students were integrated into one school. Here’s ‘a glimpse ...

About 70 fifth grade history students at Sonora Elementary took part last Thursday in the school’s annual Wax Museum event, in which each youngster portrays a person who became noteworthy in history. ...

In the last stanzas of the 1926 poem “I, too,” Langston Hughes writes: “Tomorrow, / I’ll be at the table / When company comes. / Nobody’ll dare / Say to me, / ‘Eat in the kitchen,’ / Then. / Besides, ...

STUDENTS BRINGING HISTORY TO LIFE. THE FIFTH GRADERS AT PORTLAND ELEMENTARY RESEARCHED AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIGURES AS PART OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH. TODAY, STUDENTS CREATED A LIVING WAX MUSEUM IN THE GYM.

Some of the historical figures chosen included Albert Einstein, Teddy Roosevelt, Anne Frank, Pope Benedict, Martin Luther King Jr., Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Elizabeth II. Fifth grader Tyler Martin ...

SPARR — Jackie Beard went back to Sparr Elementary School on Monday and shared memories about his days in the early 1960s at the school, which back then was an all-black schoolhouse. Beard, speaking ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Many gathered Thursday night to watch students host their third annual Black History Month celebration with performances based on historic moments in Black history. Last year, ...