"I was amazed to see that the children knew what sharecropping and slavery meant," said Eddie Jean Carr, Hinds County Chancery Court Clerk.  "That showed me that the teachers are teaching and the students are learning about black history.  I'm proud of what the Medical Mall is doing to continue to promote black history and I was honored to be a part of that experience."

 

Carr was one of several speakers who took part in the Foundation's "Profiles of Our Heritage" speaker's forum.  Metro Jackson students got a visual history lesson from African-American trailblazers in state politics, health care, the arts, business, and education.  The activity is part of the Foundation's 8th Annual Celebration of Our Heritage Black History Month observance.

 

Other speakers included Hinds County Tax Collector Eddie Fair, Journalist and Profession Walter Saddler, Hip-Hop Artist and Entertainment Guru Kamikaze, Foundation Executive Director Primus Wheeler, and regional manager for the Jackson-Hinds Library System Charlotte Moman.  Area schools provided entertainment including, singing, dancing, acting, and speaking.  They were Bradley, Raines, Walton, Key, Green, Johnson, and Timberlawn Elementary Schools.  Other schools that attended were Sister Thea Bowman Catholic School and Kis Company, Inc.