Our Annual Spring Break Out Programming is Coming Up!
NASA's first Black aerospace engineer, Mary Winston Jackson
Today, NASA held it’s official renaming ceremony in honor of its’ first Black aerospace engineer, Mary Winston Jackson. Mrs. Jackson successfully overcame the barriers of segregation and gender bias to become a leader in ensuring equal opportunity for future generations. Her greatest achievements were showcased in the 2016 film ‘Hidden Figures’, a movie starring Janelle Monae telling the stories of the numerous Black women who worked as ‘human computers’, making the scientific calculations for space travel possible. We hope you are inspired to learn more about Mary Jackson and her life changing discoveries by sharing them with your family and friends as well.
On February 24th, we were honored to be part of a Social Justice Webinar hosted by La Salle Catholic College Preparatory and their Black Student Union - we had an engaging and powerful discussion about Black Excellence, social justice awareness, personal and communal faith and more. The recording of the panel is now available on YouTube, which you can view here.
Saturday, February 27, 2021 we will be joining the virtual Winter Congress event with Junior State of America, starting at 1pm - to register for this weekend of political discussions, please view more here. Stacey Abrams, keynote speaker, will be among other political activists speaking on the current state of our nation.
As we near the end of Black History Month, we are focusing ahead on our Spring Break Out programming, an annual community outreach plan that will result in more free items for the youth! We have several educational and learning kits for all ages - please sign your families up for our youth programming in order to reserve your resources!
For those who are already signed up, we would love to connect with you all about your Reclaim MLK tote bags and the books that were given at the event. Please follow up with us if you have any questions about the curriculum or report.
We are encouraging youth to really research their materials by letting us know their thoughts, feelings and any lessons or wisdom gained from their collective experience. Quarantine is a perfect opportunity to grow and engage with the world around you, and that means using education as a tool to become the leaders our communities need.
Sign up for Don’t Shoot PDX’s youth activism programming here!