February is Black History month. Each school day during the month of February we will be recognizing African Americans who had a lasting impact on the U.S. Today we recognize civil rights leader and activist Stokely Carmichael.

Stokely Carmichael, was a prominent socialist organizer in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States and the global Pan-African movement. Born in Trinidad, he grew up in the United States from the age of 11 and became an activist while attending Howard University. He eventually developed the Black Power movement, first while leading the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), later serving as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party (BPP), and lastly as a leader of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party (A-APRP).
Carmichael was one of the original SNCC freedom riders of 1961 and became a major voting rights activist in Mississippi and Alabama.

The College Promise Program provides a life changing opportunity for Montgomery County students annually. These students are identified and selected during their 8th grade year. Each student is supported through high school by a caring adult mentor who meets with them weekly for 40 to 60 minutes at their school and through programming offered by the College Promise Program and their college and university partners.

After completing graduation requirements and meeting the entrance requirements for Sinclair Community College, Wright State University, Central State University, Miami University, Miami University Regionals, Ohio Northern University, Xavier University, Wittenburg University, Denison University, Kettering College, or the University of Dayton, the selected students will be awarded scholarships. The scholarship will allow them to attend college at little or no cost to them or their families.

The Miamisburg City School District was privileged to have four students from the Miamisburg Middle School selected for this program. Kassidy Elzey, Alexis Liebst, Ethaniel Nicholl, and Wyatt Wolff were chosen from our district to receive this incredible opportunity.

February is Black History month. Each school day during the month of February we will be recognizing African Americans who had a lasting impact on the U.S. Today we recognize civil rights leader and activist Malcolm X.

Malcolm X was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist. Some saw him as a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans; others accused him of preaching racism and violence. He has been called one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history.

On February 21, 1965, he was assassinated by three members of the Nation of Islam.

February is Black History Month. Each school day during the month of February we will be recognizing African Americans who had a lasting impact on the U.S. Today we recognize author Alex Haley.

Alexander Murray Palmer Haley was an American writer and the author most well known for his 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers. In the United States, the book and miniseries raised the public awareness of African American history and inspired a broad interest in genealogy and family history. 

Haley's first book was The Autobiography of Malcolm X, published in 1965, a collaboration through numerous lengthy interviews with the subject, a major African-American leader.