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BLCC HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH EVENTS
The St. Joseph ’s Prep Black and Latino Culture Club (BLCC) will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month during October. This month-long celebration commemorates the noteworthy achievements and accomplishments of Latinos throughout the Americas , most especially within the United States .
The student officers of the BLCC felt particularly determined to offer the greater Prep community opportunities to learn more about Latino history and culture this year, just as they have prepared films, posters, and trivia for Black History month in the past. In the upcoming weeks, the Prep community will see posters, hear from Latino students, and learn more about the "Latino History Trivia" contest which will be open to all homerooms.
Another facet of the celebration will be the “Latino Film” series, which will begin at 2:45 p.m. Students should check daily announcements for locations, etc.
- (Friday, 10/6) “Stand and Deliver” - true story about Jaime Escalante - a mathematics teacher who adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students.
- (Friday, 10/13) “El Norte” - Mayan Indian peasants, tired of being thought of as nothing more than "brazos fuertes" ("strong arms", i.e., manual laborers) and organizing in an effort to improve their lot in life, are discovered by the Guatemalan army. After the army destroys their village and family, a brother and sister, teenagers who just barely escaped the massacre, decide they must flee to "El Norte" ("the North", i.e., the USA).
- (Friday, 10/20) “Romero” - The life and work of Archbishop Oscar Romero who opposed, at great personal risk, the tyrannical repression in El Salvador.
- (Friday, 10/27) “Selena” - a true story about Selena Quintanilla-Perez, a Texas born tejano singer who rose from cult status to performing at the Astrodome, as well as having chart topping albums on the Latin music charts.
- (Friday, 10/27) “Mambo Kings” - musician brothers Cesar and Nestor leave Cuba for America in the 1950s, hoping to hit the top of the Latin music scene.
For more information on these activities, contact history teacher Mr. Joseph Lamar Daniels at jldaniels@sjprep.org.