{"id":14857,"date":"2023-02-01T07:55:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T13:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/5badbfa87a.nxcli.io\/banaadir-elementary\/?p=14857"},"modified":"2023-01-31T15:06:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T21:06:13","slug":"celebrating-and-honoring-black-history-month-at-mtcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtcs.org\/banaadir-elementary\/celebrating-and-honoring-black-history-month-at-mtcs\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating and honoring Black History Month at MTCS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1352px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>We can hardly wait for each February, to begin a special month-long study and celebration of Black History here at MTCS. All year we celebrate the important ways people of color have helped create the remarkable world we live in\u2014but February is a special time when we create events, invite families in, and honor and celebrate important achievements that helped bring us to where we are now and where we must still go.<\/p>\n<p>Each of our schools will have special celebrations and gatherings, so please check your school\u2019s calendar to see what is happening. And be sure to follow us on social media (you can find the icons for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube right on the top right side of your school or the District\u2019s website,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mtcs.org\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/mtcs.org&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1675276127142000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1kDJxLj1AsV1ILVDRJ2hPi\">mtcs.org<\/a>) and see various people that we are highlighting during this month.<\/p>\n<p>MTCS students and staff create a month-long study of important impact of black lives in our history, arts, culture, education and lives. In the classrooms this comes to life in a variety of special projects.<\/p>\n<p>We hope you will celebrate the many ways black lives have transformed us and history. We are so proud of our students and believe that in the future we will be highlighting some of the important things they have accomplished.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element \" style=\"--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/mtcs.org\/powelljrotc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/01\/Black-History-Month-Celebration.fw_.png\" alt class=\"lazyload img-responsive\"\/><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banaadir-elementary"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Celebrating and honoring Black History Month at MTCS &#060; 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