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Senior Shulamite Yawson performs a Ghanaian dance at ACHS’ annual Black History Month showcase.

Black History Showcase Celebrates Students

Rozalia Finkelstein, Editor March 5, 2025

On February 25th, Alexandria City High School hosted its 15th annual Black History Month showcase. Students performed dances, songs and spoken-word pieces. The performance occurred in the auditorium at...

A reflective discussion titled “Through My Eyes” occurred on January 30th.

Through My Eyes: An Emphasis on Memories

Isabel Shultz, Staff Writer February 27, 2025

After participating in a reflective discussion titled “Through My Eyes” on January 30, two sophomore classes in attendance gathered insightful new perspectives. Located at Goodwin House, a senior living...

CURLS

May 19, 2022
This poem by Vanessa Mensah is about the beauty of Black hair as well as the constant obstacles that Black people face because of their natural hair. "WOW your hair, can I touch it?/ My kinks and my curls are not up for display"

Action For Advancement

February 4, 2022
African Americans in the United States have only been allowed to vote for 152 years, while the U.S. has been a country for 246. That is about a hundred years that Black people in the U.S. went without voting, and even when the 15th Amendment was passed, there were many ways they were still kept from voting as equal citizens. States began creating poll taxes, where people had to pay to vote, since the time of Jim Crow Laws. Mississippi had even made a “plan” (The Mississippi Plan) to create barriers like property ownership, and literacy tests to ensure their white leaders would be elected. 
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