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This Week End…Get Involved, Participate, Have Fun, Donate

  C.H.S Homecoming Events

  Parade of Giving

Friday 10/4/13 8am

Food Baskets will be given to deserving families.

                                       Pep Rally

Friday 10/4/13 1pm

The Big Game

Craigmont High/Trezvant

Friday 10/4/13 7pm Rally Egypt

C.H.S Community Fall Festival/ Methodist North Health Fair

10/5/13 8am-3pm

Get Ready for

Teacher’s Night Out!

Friday, October 4, 4-6pm

You are important to us, so we’re doing it again – a night filled with

stress-free fun, massages, light snacks and beverages. Take a sneak

peek of our Grossology exhibit and reserve a spot for your class field

trip during the event. Enjoy networking with colleagues and learn

about other cultural classroom resources from over 20 community

organizations. A classroom goodie bag filled with school supplies will

be available to the first 100 teachers to RSVP and arrive. The school

with the most teachers present will win a scheduled P. D. Parrot visit for

their students. Limited space available: RSVP by October 2 at felicia.

[email protected] or 901-458-2678, ext. 230. Please be advised this

is an ADULT ONLY event!

http://www.cmom.com/sites/default/images/Learning%20Journeys%20Fall%202013forweb.pdf

Blackout Bullying Awareness Pageant

Sunday, October 6, 3-6pm

Holiday Inn Express & Suites Southwind

4048 Stansell Ct

Memphis, Tennessee

Bullying is aggressive behavior that is intentional and that involves an imbalance of power or strength. Typically, it is repeated over time. A child who is being bullied has a hard time defending him or herself. Bullying can take many forms, such as hitting orpunching (physical bullying); teasing or name calling (verbal bullying); intimidation using gestures or social exclusion (nonverbal bullying or emotional bullying); and sending insulting messages by e-mail (cyberbullying) .

Hosted by A Belle That Cares Dress Outreach, founder Rashida Patterson

Images and text provided by A Belle That Cares Dress Outreach

http://www.google.com/ 8/28/13

Love this Picture. Fifty years later…Martin or Obama hmmmm?

As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, it is good and at the same time disheartening to know that in the wake of the Trayvon Martin verdict African-Americans are still marching for justice. This march is even displayed in film. For example, The Help and Lee Daniels’ the Butler. The films show us marching not so much in a literal sense but via media where African American directors and actors are fighting to maintain and broaden their space in Hollywood. Fifty years after the March on Washington African-Americans are still trying to deem themselves as worthy in the film industry as well as society, but hope prevails and justice simmers as we have our first African American President serving a second term. This allows all Americans to be proud when they yell Yes We Can! Yes We Did! in contrast to singing the popular civil rights anthem “We Shall Overcome“. Come celebrate with author Jeanine Jones at the Black Writer’s and Book Clubs (BWABC) Literacy Festival September 20-21st as we march via literacy and literature. Book Signings will occur through out both days of the festival. Jones will be signing her long awaited and overdue new book Yes We Can! Yes We Did!  The BWABC Festival will be held at the Hilton Hotel, 939 Ridge Lake Blvd. in the perfect location, Memphis TN. We will see you there. Log onto  http://www.bwabcliteracyfestival.com/ for more details.

From Serving to Serving

The Butler picture taken from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1327773/

  ~Literacy is Life~ Live!

J.J.