Films about writers are tough enough. Films about writers who think they’re the smartest person in the room and too cool for the love story in which they’re essentially starring are even more ill-advised.
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.