To Bring Three of His Bestselling Books to Life Onscreen
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Netflix Partners With Renowned Author Dr. Ibram X. Kendi to Bring Three of His Bestselling Books to Life Onscreen
Award-winning creators Roger Ross Williams, Mara Brock Akil and Chris Nee attached to the projects
Netflix is partnering with acclaimed author and antiracist scholar Dr. Ibram X. Kendi to produce three new projects based on his bestselling and award-winning books: Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You, and Antiracist Baby. Netflix is developing the books across several different formats and genres, offering a timely and thoughtful examination of racism for audiences of all ages.
Photo (from left to right) Brent Bogy, MHHS principal; Vanessa Roberts, MHHS/ASUMH college and career coach; Tracy Stephens, MHHS/ASUMH college and career coach; Dr. Jake Long, superintendent of Mountain Home Public Schools; Dr. Robin Myers, chancellor of Arkansas State University-Mountain Home.
Mountain Home High School (MHHS) Career Academies has been named the American College Application (ACAC) Campaign School of Excellence award winner for Arkansas. MHHS was also named and one of the nation’s School of Excellence award winners. ACAC is a national effort to increase the number of first-generation college students and students from low-income families pursuing a college degree or other higher education credential.
Photo: Rotarian/MHPS Superintendent Dr. Jake Long, Dictionary Chairman Jay Chafin with his son Alex and Rotarian David Matty at Hackler Elementary School. Photo: Courtesy Brenda Nelson, MH Rotary PR Chair
The Rotary Club of Mountain Home delivered 435 student dictionaries to area third graders in Mountain Home, Cotter, Norfork, Flippin, Calico Rock and the MH Christian Academy again this year.
The dictionaries have been one of the club’s priority and signature projects for several decades, provided in part by a Rotary District 6110 matching grant.
According to project chairman Jay Chafin, the large books contain not only a dictionary of every known word in the English language, but also exhaustive information about every state; a copy of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence; facts about the countries of the world; geographical maps; sign language; the monetary system; and much more.