As part of the courtwarming assembly this morning, members of Minority Achievement Committee (MAAC) scholars. presented information about notable African Americans throughout United States history.[TS_VCSC_Image_Hover_Effects hover_image=”271643″ effect_style_type=”text” effect_style_text=”ts-hover-effect-jazz” effect_style_icons=”ts-hover-effect-zoe” effect_permanent=”false” title_text=”Deja Burgess” title_color=”#ffffff” content_text=”Burgess, a junior, served as emcee for the noted historical figures.” content_color_text=”#ffffff” content_color_other=”#ffffff” content_color_icons=”#000000″ overlay_handle_show=”true” overlay_handle_color=”#2bb673″ hover_event=”none” hover_show_title=”true” hover_video_related=”false” hover_video_auto=”true” tooltip_html=”false” tooltipster_offsetx=”0″ tooltipster_offsety=”0″ margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”0″][TS_VCSC_Image_Hover_Effects hover_image=”271644″ effect_style_type=”text” effect_style_text=”ts-hover-effect-jazz” effect_style_icons=”ts-hover-effect-zoe” effect_permanent=”false” title_text=”Cheyenne James” title_color=”#ffffff” content_text=”James, a freshman, sang the Negro National Anthem.” content_color_text=”#ffffff” content_color_other=”#ffffff” content_color_icons=”#000000″ overlay_handle_show=”true” overlay_handle_color=”#2bb673″ hover_event=”none” hover_show_title=”true” hover_video_related=”false” hover_video_auto=”true” tooltip_html=”false” tooltipster_offsetx=”0″ tooltipster_offsety=”0″ margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”0″][TS_VCSC_Image_Hover_Effects hover_image=”271647″ effect_style_type=”text” effect_style_text=”ts-hover-effect-jazz” effect_style_icons=”ts-hover-effect-zoe” effect_permanent=”false” title_text=”Jade Simmons” title_color=”#ffffff” content_text=”Simmons, a senior, portrayed Soujourner Truth, an aboisionist and women’s rights activist from the 18th century.” content_color_text=”#ffffff” content_color_other=”#ffffff” content_color_icons=”#000000″ overlay_handle_show=”true” overlay_handle_color=”#2bb673″ hover_event=”none” hover_show_title=”true” hover_video_related=”false” hover_video_auto=”true” tooltip_html=”false” tooltipster_offsetx=”0″ tooltipster_offsety=”0″ margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”0″][TS_VCSC_Image_Hover_Effects hover_image=”271648″ effect_style_type=”text” effect_style_text=”ts-hover-effect-jazz” effect_style_icons=”ts-hover-effect-zoe” effect_permanent=”false” title_text=”LaTia Glasgow” title_color=”#ffffff” content_text=”Glasgow, a junior, portrayed Araminta Ross, a Civil War humnitarian.” content_color_text=”#ffffff” content_color_other=”#ffffff” content_color_icons=”#000000″ overlay_handle_show=”true” overlay_handle_color=”#2bb673″ hover_event=”none” hover_show_title=”true” hover_video_related=”false” hover_video_auto=”true” tooltip_html=”false” tooltipster_offsetx=”0″ tooltipster_offsety=”0″ margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”0″][TS_VCSC_Image_Hover_Effects hover_image=”271650″ effect_style_type=”text” effect_style_text=”ts-hover-effect-jazz” effect_style_icons=”ts-hover-effect-zoe” effect_permanent=”false” title_text=”Quinton Jackson” title_color=”#ffffff” content_text=”Jackson, a senior, portrayed Marcus Garvey, a proponent of Black Nationalism in the early 20th century.” content_color_text=”#ffffff” content_color_other=”#ffffff” content_color_icons=”#000000″ overlay_handle_show=”true” overlay_handle_color=”#2bb673″ hover_event=”none” hover_show_title=”true” hover_video_related=”false” hover_video_auto=”true” tooltip_html=”false” tooltipster_offsetx=”0″ tooltipster_offsety=”0″ margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”0″][TS_VCSC_Image_Hover_Effects hover_image=”271653″ effect_style_type=”text” effect_style_text=”ts-hover-effect-jazz” effect_style_icons=”ts-hover-effect-zoe” effect_permanent=”false” title_text=”Cheyenne James” title_color=”#ffffff” content_text=”James portrayed Ida Bell Wells-Barneett, who refused to give up her seat on theMemphis & Charleston Railway in 1884.” content_color_text=”#ffffff” content_color_other=”#ffffff” content_color_icons=”#000000″ overlay_handle_show=”true” overlay_handle_color=”#2bb673″ hover_event=”none” hover_show_title=”true” hover_video_related=”false” hover_video_auto=”true” tooltip_html=”false” tooltipster_offsetx=”0″ tooltipster_offsety=”0″ margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”0″][TS_VCSC_Image_Hover_Effects hover_image=”271654″ effect_style_type=”text” effect_style_text=”ts-hover-effect-jazz” effect_style_icons=”ts-hover-effect-zoe” effect_permanent=”false” title_text=”Jae Powell” title_color=”#ffffff” content_text=”Powell, a freshman, portrayed Sarah Breedlove Walker, the first African American woman millionaire.” content_color_text=”#ffffff” content_color_other=”#ffffff” content_color_icons=”#000000″ overlay_handle_show=”true” overlay_handle_color=”#2bb673″ hover_event=”none” hover_show_title=”true” hover_video_related=”false” hover_video_auto=”true” tooltip_html=”false” tooltipster_offsetx=”0″ tooltipster_offsety=”0″ margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”0″][TS_VCSC_Image_Hover_Effects hover_image=”271656″ effect_style_type=”text” effect_style_text=”ts-hover-effect-jazz” effect_style_icons=”ts-hover-effect-zoe” effect_permanent=”false” title_text=”Mi’Lanne Bell-Fox” title_color=”#ffffff” content_text=”Fox, a junior, portrayed Maya Angelou, an author, poet, dancer, actress and singer.” content_color_text=”#ffffff” content_color_other=”#ffffff” content_color_icons=”#000000″ overlay_handle_show=”true” overlay_handle_color=”#2bb673″ hover_event=”none” hover_show_title=”true” hover_video_related=”false” hover_video_auto=”true” tooltip_html=”false” tooltipster_offsetx=”0″ tooltipster_offsety=”0″ margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”0″][TS_VCSC_Image_Hover_Effects hover_image=”271657″ effect_style_type=”text” effect_style_text=”ts-hover-effect-jazz” effect_style_icons=”ts-hover-effect-zoe” effect_permanent=”false” title_text=”Ronel Ghidey” title_color=”#ffffff” content_text=”Ghidey, a junior, portrayed Malcom X, a human rights activist in the ’50s and ’60s.” content_color_text=”#ffffff” content_color_other=”#ffffff” content_color_icons=”#000000″ overlay_handle_show=”true” overlay_handle_color=”#2bb673″ hover_event=”none” hover_show_title=”true” hover_video_related=”false” hover_video_auto=”true” tooltip_html=”false” tooltipster_offsetx=”0″ tooltipster_offsety=”0″ margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”0″][TS_VCSC_Image_Hover_Effects hover_image=”271660″ effect_style_type=”text” effect_style_text=”ts-hover-effect-jazz” effect_style_icons=”ts-hover-effect-zoe” effect_permanent=”false” title_text=”Makena Githegi” title_color=”#ffffff” content_text=”Githegi, a freshman, portrayed Angela Davis, a counterculture activis adn radical in the 1960s.” content_color_text=”#ffffff” content_color_other=”#ffffff” content_color_icons=”#000000″ overlay_handle_show=”true” overlay_handle_color=”#2bb673″ hover_event=”none” hover_show_title=”true” hover_video_related=”false” hover_video_auto=”true” tooltip_html=”false” tooltipster_offsetx=”0″ tooltipster_offsety=”0″ margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”0″][TS_VCSC_Image_Hover_Effects hover_image=”271661″ effect_style_type=”text” effect_style_text=”ts-hover-effect-jazz” effect_style_icons=”ts-hover-effect-zoe” effect_permanent=”false” title_color=”#ffffff” content_color_text=”#ffffff” content_color_other=”#ffffff” content_color_icons=”#000000″ overlay_handle_show=”true” overlay_handle_color=”#2bb673″ hover_event=”none” hover_show_title=”true” hover_video_related=”false” hover_video_auto=”true” tooltip_html=”false” tooltipster_offsetx=”0″ tooltipster_offsety=”0″ margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”0″ title_text=”Faramola Shonekan” content_text=”Shonekan, a junior, portrayed Wilma Rudolph, an Olym,pic champion in the 1956 an
d 1960 games.”][TS_VCSC_Image_Hover_Effects hover_image=”271663″ effect_style_type=”text” effect_style_text=”ts-hover-effect-jazz” effect_style_icons=”ts-hover-effect-zoe” effect_permanent=”false” title_text=”Josh Green” title_color=”#ffffff” content_text=”Green, a senior, portrayed Colin Powell, the first African American U.S. Secretary of State.” content_color_text=”#ffffff” content_color_other=”#ffffff” content_color_icons=”#000000″ overlay_handle_show=”true” overlay_handle_color=”#2bb673″ hover_event=”none” hover_show_title=”true” hover_video_related=”false” hover_video_auto=”true” tooltip_html=”false” tooltipster_offsetx=”0″ tooltipster_offsety=”0″ margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”0″][TS_VCSC_Image_Hover_Effects hover_image=”271664″ effect_style_type=”text” effect_style_text=”ts-hover-effect-jazz” effect_style_icons=”ts-hover-effect-zoe” effect_permanent=”false” title_color=”#ffffff” content_color_text=”#ffffff” content_color_other=”#ffffff” content_color_icons=”#000000″ overlay_handle_show=”true” overlay_handle_color=”#2bb673″ hover_event=”none” hover_show_title=”true” hover_video_related=”false” hover_video_auto=”true” tooltip_html=”false” tooltipster_offsetx=”0″ tooltipster_offsety=”0″ margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”0″ title_text=”Juston Sharp” content_text=”Sharp, a senior, portrayed Alex Haley, a 20th century author.”][TS_VCSC_Image_Hover_Effects hover_image=”271665″ effect_style_type=”text” effect_style_text=”ts-hover-effect-jazz” effect_style_icons=”ts-hover-effect-zoe” effect_permanent=”false” title_color=”#ffffff” content_color_text=”#ffffff” content_color_other=”#ffffff” content_color_icons=”#000000″ overlay_handle_show=”true” overlay_handle_color=”#2bb673″ hover_event=”none” hover_show_title=”true” hover_video_related=”false” hover_video_auto=”true” tooltip_html=”false” tooltipster_offsetx=”0″ tooltipster_offsety=”0″ margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”0″ title_text=”Wesley Cosby” content_text=”Cosby, a sophomore, portrayed Miles Davis, an influential jazz musician.”][TS_VCSC_Image_Hover_Effects hover_image=”271666″ effect_style_type=”text” effect_style_text=”ts-hover-effect-jazz” effect_style_icons=”ts-hover-effect-zoe” effect_permanent=”false” title_color=”#ffffff” content_color_text=”#ffffff” content_color_other=”#ffffff” content_color_icons=”#000000″ overlay_handle_show=”true” overlay_handle_color=”#2bb673″ hover_event=”none” hover_show_title=”true” hover_video_related=”false” hover_video_auto=”true” tooltip_html=”false” tooltipster_offsetx=”0″ tooltipster_offsety=”0″ margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”0″ title_text=”Tre Williams” content_text=”Williams, a junior, portrayed Kweisi Mfume, the former president and CEO of the National Association for teh Advancement of Colored People.”][TS_VCSC_Image_Hover_Effects hover_image=”271667″ effect_style_type=”text” effect_style_text=”ts-hover-effect-jazz” effect_style_icons=”ts-hover-effect-zoe” effect_permanent=”false” title_text=”Tynesha Green” title_color=”#ffffff” content_text=”Green, a sophomore, portrayed Dr. Mae Jemison, the first African American woman to travel in space. She was on the space shuttle “Endeavour“ in 1992.” content_color_text=”#ffffff” content_color_other=”#ffffff” content_color_icons=”#000000″ overlay_handle_show=”true” overlay_handle_color=”#2bb673″ hover_event=”none” hover_show_title=”true” hover_video_related=”false” hover_video_auto=”true” tooltip_html=”false” tooltipster_offsetx=”0″ tooltipster_offsety=”0″ margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”0″]By Bailey Washer
Watch the courtwarming assembly in its entirety below.
Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream