Diversity Club - Erie High School

What is diversity?
It means understanding that each individual is unique, and recognizing our individual differences. These can be along the dimensions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, age, physical abilities, religious beliefs, political beliefs, or other ideologies.

Why is it important?
It helps dispel negative stereotypes and personal biases about different groups. It is important to value diversity because: people build a stronger sense of identity and wellbeing, and have better education and career outcomes when their diverse strengths, abilities, interests and perspectives are understood and supported. Diversity helps promote a judge free, safe environment for you to be yourself.

Diversity Club Meeting

When: November 7, 2019

Where: EHS Computer Room

Time: 3:45 pm - 4:45 pm

Who: Everyone is invited

Topic:

November is Native American Heritage Month, or commonly referred to as, American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month. This month is a time to celebrate the rich and diverse cultures, traditions, and histories and to acknowledge the important contributions of Native people.

Next Diversity Club Meeting Thursday November 7, 2019 from 3:45 - 4:45 pm in the EHS Library. November is Native American Heritage Month, or commonly referred to as, American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month. This month is a time to celebrate rich and diverse cultures, traditions, and histories and to acknowledge the important contributions of Native people. Come join us!

Don't let them steal your joy...

Brandi Carlile - The Joke (Official Video) From the album "By The Way, I Forgive You" available now. http://elektrar.ec/BrandiCarlileBTWIFY Directed by Danny Clinch Produced by Lindha Narvaez for MILK...

Want one? (free)
Just ask a Diversity Club officer:
Kenzie Brant
Mikaella White
Grace Harmon
Kandi Phelan

President, Kenzie Brant presides over our April Diversity Club meeting. We are already looking ahead. If you are interested in being an officer next school year, please let her know or send us a message.

VERY FIRST Diversity Club meeting on Monday, April 8, 3:45-5:00 in the EHS Commons/Lunch Room. DOOR PRIZES, PIZZA... Come see what we are all about!

Diversity Club officers provided a movie during EHS Parent/Teacher Conferences so kids had a place to chill while their parents visited with teachers.
Movie: “Into the Spider-Verse”

*February is African American History Month*

The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity to achieve full citizenship in American society.

As a Harvard-trained historian, Carter G. Woodson, like W. E. B. Du Bois before him, believed that truth could not be denied and that reason would prevail over prejudice. His hopes to raise awareness of African American’s contributions to civilization was realized when he and the organization he founded, the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH), conceived and announced Negro History Week in 1925. The event was first celebrated during a week in February 1926 that encompassed the birthdays of both Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. The response was overwhelming: Black history clubs sprang up; teachers demanded materials to instruct their pupils; and progressive whites, not simply white scholars and philanthropists, stepped forward to endorse the effort.

By the time of Woodson’s death in 1950, Negro History Week had become a central part of African American life and substantial progress had been made in bringing more Americans to appreciate the celebration. At mid–century, mayors of cities nationwide issued proclamations noting Negro History Week. The Black Awakening of the 1960s dramatically expanded the consciousness of African Americans about the importance of black history, and the Civil Rights movement focused Americans of all color on the subject of the contributions of African Americans to our history and culture.

The celebration was expanded to a month in 1976, the nation’s bicentennial. President Gerald R. Ford urged Americans to “seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.” That year, fifty years after the first celebration, the association held the first African American History Month. By this time, the entire nation had come to recognize the importance of Black history in the drama of the American story. Since then each American president has issued African American History Month proclamations. And the association—now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)—continues to promote the study of Black history all year.

(Excerpt from an essay by Daryl Michael Scott, Howard University, for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History)

African American History Month

Loving the support system in this Lawrence middle school ~