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Kern High School District holds first district-wide Black History Month program
The Kern High School Districtâs Black History Month program committee did not imagine theyâd be holding their first district-wide programming during a pandemic. They say theyâre making sure standout voices in the Black community locally are still being featured, even if itâs virtually.
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Fuchsia Ward was born one of twelve on a plantation, in the midst of segregation in Arkansas and moved to Bakersfield and an integrated school system 60 years ago.
Sheâs spent the last few decades making a difference, first at the Bakersfield City School District, then at the Kern High School District. She has been an educator, then a volunteer, whether at KHSD, Friendship House or community school sites.