Erika Jackson and Sarah Swedberg donât wait for Black History Month to teach Colorado Mesa students about the history of race in America.
This past fall, Swedberg taught a course on American slavery, and several of those students this semester are in Jacksonâs upper-level History of Race, Immigration and Ethnicity in America class.
âSarah and I work together extensively, and whatâs been incredibly helpful in me teaching this class is that I would say a third of the students in my class took American Slavery last semester with Sarah,â Jackson said. âWe were talking (recently), and they kept saying, âOh, yeah, this connects to this thing that we learned about American Slavery.â And Iâm just like this, this is so great, so Iâm wondering if we should think about a way to pair the two classes together in the future, because those students having that prior knowledge that theyâre bringing into the classes is really essential.â
UpdatedMon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:25 am ET
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Bill Ridgley Celebrates With Fire Engine Cake (Brudnick Center for Living)
Father, grandfather, veteran, fire captain, first Black Lexington town meeting member and first President of Concerned Black Citizens of Lexington are among Bill s many accomplishments. Recently, Bill added one more to the list: he was honored by the Association of Black Citizens of Lexington, which unveiled portrait banners depicting prominent figures in African American history who have made significant impacts on the Lexington community, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the nation.
Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Easter Sunday, April 12, 1936 to Marguerite Eleanor Ridgley and Frederick Ridgley, Bill is the seventh child amongst eleven siblings. From a young age, Bill always had a strong sense of responsibility. He engaged in activities to help others and led by example as a Boy Scout and traffic crossing guard. His sister Maxine recalls the time he jum