Lorreen Pryor-Trowel is working to hold area school districts accountable for the way they “under-resource, yet overly discipline Black children.” (Photo by Russell Stiger Jr.)
‘Don’t make me come down there.” Many a Black mother has threatened to pop up at a child’s school, but for area advocate Lorreen Pryor-Trowel the words take on new meaning. They’re not a warning to a misbehaving child, but a promise to schools and school districts that someone is, in fact, watching.
Ms. Pryor-Trowel is president of the Black Youth Leadership Project (BYLP), an organization she’s led since 2010. With the rise of inequity in public education, programming expanded to include direct service advocacy to families experiencing racism and other disparate treatment. She got involved with the Elk Grove Unified School District (EGUSD) after a student at Pleasant Grove High School penned a letter to teachers.
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Martin played both running back and linebacker for Pleasant Grove High School in Texarkana, Texas, but was being recruited as a linebacker for OSU. He has the talent and skillset to play both linebacker or safety, a versatility that OSU has really put an emphasis on when recruiting on the defensive side of the ball. He was also named the District 6-4A-II Defensive Newcomer of the Year as a sophomore in 2018. In This Stream
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Donald Nelson is a pioneer for the African-American community in the area of education in the Texarkana area, and across the Ark-La-Tex. He graduated from Booker T. Washington High School on the Arkansas side in 1954. He was was a high school senior in 1954 when the courts passed Brown vs. Board of Education. He then went on to several colleges including AM&N- Pine Bluff before finishing with his Masters degree from Henderson State University in Arkadelphia. As an educator, he spent 37 years as a teacher and administrator for TASD.