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African Heritage Committee Kwanzaa Celebration
Celebrate the holidays with the UFT African Heritage Committee! Join your union representatives and colleagues for an exciting Kwanzaa celebration. Enjoy a festive dinner, activities and vendors. There will also be raffle giveaways for various African-themed products.
The importance of being ‘seen’
Educators' extra efforts working collaboratively and leading their students at Francis Lewis HS in Queens paid off with an extra special Black History Month celebration featuring a number of high-profile speakers, including film director Malcolm Lee...
UFT African Heritage Committee’s awards dinner
The 20th annual UFT African Heritage Committee’s awards dinner, held on Feb. 2 at Antun’s of Queens Village, was bigger than ever this year, befitting its landmark anniversary.
African Heritage Awards Dinner 2024
UFT members celebrated African heritage and honored students and colleagues at the 21st annual UFT African Heritage Committee Awards Dinner on Feb. 2 at Antun’s in Queens Village.
60th anniversary of the March on Washington
Eleven busloads of UFT members and school community members were among the tens of thousands of demonstrators who gathered at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday, Aug. 26, to mark the 60th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom...
Fight’s not over
On Aug. 28, 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. captivated an audience of 250,000 people at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom with his soaring “I Have a Dream” speech. Sixty years later, the dreams invoked that day by these civil rights...
African Heritage Awards Dinner 2023
“Thriving Into Our Future” was the theme of the 20th annual UFT African Heritage Committee Awards Dinner Dance on Feb. 3 at Antun’s in Queens Village. The event coincides with Black History Month in what Chair Wendy Walker-Wilson has described as “a way for us to celebrate our culture.”
African Heritage Committee Awards Dinner Dance 2023
The UFT African Heritage Committee Awards Dinner restored music and festivity to its 20th annual event on Feb. 3, reflected in its theme: “Thriving Into Our Future.”
New African American Studies AP class
Roughly 60 public high schools across the country are piloting a new Advanced Placement course called African American Studies, the first new College Board offering since 2014.
Mentoring boys of color
Kappa League, a program that offers Black and Latino high school boys a chance to develop leadership skills while preparing for college, now has a small but growing presence in New York City public schools thanks to the efforts of two UFT members.