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< Back Next Michael Jordan February 17, 1963 - present We will celebrate the birthday of our present-day hero, Michael Jeffrey Jordan, born February 17, 1963, also known by his initials MJ is an American businessman, activist, author, actor, and former professional basketball player. His biography on the official NBA website states: "By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time." He played fifteen seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), winning six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls. Jordan is the principal owner and chairman of the Charlotte Hornets of the NBA and of 23XI Racing in the NASCAR Cup Series. He was integral in popularizing the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s, becoming a global cultural icon in the process. "Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion." Previous Next Support our Students. Donate Today! RPCS is working harder than ever to ensure that our students receive intensive academic interventions and extended learning opportunities. Donate

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< Back Next Michael Jordan February 17, 1963 - present We will celebrate the birthday of our present-day hero, Michael Jeffrey Jordan, born February 17, 1963, also known by his initials MJ is an American businessman, activist, author, actor, and former professional basketball player. His biography on the official NBA website states: "By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time." He played fifteen seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), winning six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls. Jordan is the principal owner and chairman of the Charlotte Hornets of the NBA and of 23XI Racing in the NASCAR Cup Series. He was integral in popularizing the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s, becoming a global cultural icon in the process. "Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion." Previous Next Support our Students. Donate Today! RPCS is working harder than ever to ensure that our students receive intensive academic interventions and extended learning opportunities. Donate

< Back Next Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (Toni Morrison) February 18, 1931 - present We celebrate the birthday of our beloved ancestor, Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison, known as Toni Morrison, born on February 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio. She has become one of the most celebrated novelists of the 20th century. In 1978, Toni Morrison won the National Book Critics’ Award for “Song of Solomon” and in 1988 the Fiction Pulitzer Prize for “Beloved”. In 1996, she was awarded a medal by The National Book Foundation for her to contribution to American Letters. “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” Previous Next Support our Students. Donate Today! RPCS is working harder than ever to ensure that our students receive intensive academic interventions and extended learning opportunities. Donate

< Back Next Frederick Douglass February 1818 – February 20, 1895 This month, we will commemorate the birth and lifetime work of Frederick Douglass. He was born on February 14, 1817. Although born into slavery in Maryland, he later obtained his freedom. Frederick Douglass was a noted orator, author, abolitionist, and the founder of a newspaper called "The North Star." He died in 1895. The Frederick Douglass Home, located in Anacostia (Southeast DC) became a national landmark & tourist attraction. “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” Previous Next Support our Students. Donate Today! RPCS is working harder than ever to ensure that our students receive intensive academic interventions and extended learning opportunities. Donate

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< Back Next Fannie Lou Hamer October 6, 1917 - 1977 Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) was a civil rights activist whose passionate depiction of her own suffering in a racist society helped focus attention on the plight of African Americans throughout the South. In 1964, working with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Hamer helped organize the 1964 Freedom Summer African American voter registration drive in her native Mississippi. At the Democratic National Convention later that year, she was part of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, an integrated group of activists who openly challenged the legality of Mississippi’s all-white, segregated delegation. Previous Next Support our Students. Donate Today! RPCS is working harder than ever to ensure that our students receive intensive academic interventions and extended learning opportunities. Donate

< Back Next Benjamin Banneker November 9, 1731- 1806 Benjamin Banneker (Born 1731 - 1806) Without Benjamin Banneker, our nation's capital would not exist as we know it. After a year of work, the Frenchman hired by George Washington to design the capital, L'Enfant, stormed off the job, taking all the plans. Banneker placed it on the planning committee at Thomas Jefferson's request, saved the project by reproducing from memory, in two days, a complete layout of the streets, parks, and major buildings. Thus Washington, D.C. itself can be considered a monument to the genius of this great man. Banneker created his own clock, made entirely of wood (1753). Famous as the first clock built in the New World, it kept perfect time for forty years. From 1792 to 1802, Banneker published an annual Farmer's Almanac, for which he did all the calculations himself. The Almanac won Banneker fame as far away as England and France. He used his reputation to promote social change: namely, to eliminate racism and war. But Banneker's reputation was never in doubt. He spent his last years as an internationally known polymath: farmer, engineer, surveyor, city planner, astronomer, mathematician, inventor, Previous Next Support our Students. Donate Today! RPCS is working harder than ever to ensure that our students receive intensive academic interventions and extended learning opportunities. Donate

< Back Next Guion Bluford November 22, 1942 Guion Stewart Bluford Jr. (November 22, 1942 - ) Guion Bluford is an American aerospace engineer, retired United States Air Force (USAF) officer and fighter pilot, and former NASA astronaut, in which capacity he became the first African American to go to space. While assigned to NASA, he remained a USAF officer rising to the rank of colonel. He participated in four Space Shuttle flights between 1983 and 1992. In 1983, as a member of the crew of the Orbiter Challenger on the mission STS-8, he became the first African American in space as well as the second person of African descent in space, after Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez. “ I chased my dreams. In the end, find what gets you excited and chase it.”-- Guion Bluford Previous Next Support our Students. Donate Today! RPCS is working harder than ever to ensure that our students receive intensive academic interventions and extended learning opportunities. Donate

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< Back Next Queen Mother (Aziza Jones) November 1, 1935 - Queen Mother Virginia (Aziza) Jones (November 1, 1935 - ) We will also commemorate Queen Mother Virginia (Aziza) Jones. Mama Jones was born November 1, 1935, in Canton, MI. Mama Jones attended the Mississippi Industrial College in Holly Springs, MI and Omaha University in Omaha, NE. She was awarded a Bachelor of Science in Special Education from D.C. Teachers College. After teaching at Houston Elementary School, Mama Jones joined Roots Activity Learning Center to open the Primary Previous Next Support our Students. Donate Today! RPCS is working harder than ever to ensure that our students receive intensive academic interventions and extended learning opportunities. Donate