The fifth is the Twilight Academy for over-age and under credited students. The Kojo Nnamdi Show on NPR's WAMU 88.5 did a segment this week on Dunbar High School, exploring the legacy of the celeb And then the school board had to decide her race. I have great respect for teachers. Yay for the people who asked that question. I shouldn't say that, you know, it was mayhem, but it really didn't have that sense of, this is a house of learning in the way that it had been described to me by my mother and my father and my uncle and my cousin. Principals. STEWARTAnd also I want to say that all the people who went and became -- who aren't household names, who are just the strong backbone of the middle class, and especially all the teachers that came out of Dunbar. It looked like a movie set to me. NNAMDIOne of the reasons the education was so excellent was because of the teachers they were privileged to have at Dunbar in those days. Got an email from John Yota [sp?] Have someone to add? CAMPBELLWell, thank you so very much, and, yes, indeed. NNAMDIHere is Janie in Washington, D.C. Janie, you're on the air. Amber Dawn Anthony. NNAMDIThat's why she choose it because she was an admirer of Paul Laurence Dunbar. Centrally, it calls for creating smaller learning communities wherein Dunbar can once again be the leading academic environment producing outstanding educators, engineers, scientists, doctors, and other leaders in the community. I mean, there are so many people I interviewed. CLAIREYes. History & Archives of the LRSD / Dunbar Good afternoon. STEWARTThey are establishing these partnerships with universities where the university will promise, not to necessarily accept one of their students but they promise to look at ten students or five students from certain Kipp academies, in essence doing what Anna Julia Cooper did in saying, look I have qualified students for you. The shooting guard-small forward spent 15 years in the National Basketball Association with six teams. A lot of single-parent families. The smaller learning communities or pathways are called Academies. Rhone-Alpes | History, Culture, Geography, & Map | Britannica STEWARTI'm so glad that the history of the school is physically built into the building so that it cannot be lost. [9] It was named after the 19th century African-American poet and writer, Paul Laurence Dunbar, whose parents were from Kentucky. STEWARTThere were kids in the hall. But how did people feel about the idea of public education in the District at the time? NNAMDIBecause if you're going to paint a picture, it's got to have authentic context and the language provides a very important context for the times in which Dunbar evolved. STEWARTAnd every Dunbar graduate I interviewed, I don't care how old they were, could recite the entire poem. STEWARTThe school is beautiful, the new school, and I know the building's important, but it's really about the human capital, because that's what made Dunbar great. In his first two seasons, he helped the Houston Rockets win back to back championships and won a third with the Boston Celtics in 2008, his last season. And when I walked over to the school and I saw it and I went in, I realized a lot of the students didn't even know the history of the school, which really saddened me. It's a reunion year for Class of '73, Class of '83, Class of '93, Class of '03, and Class of '13. So she taught to plantation owners' children but she saw young girls the same age in the fields. Barbara Lewis is a Tucson Dunbar School alumni and she has a goal to preserve the history in the buildings and educate the community. Into a world that didn't necessarily think that young negro kids were smart enough or possibly even morally intellectually and socially inferior. The list you're viewing is made up of many different graduates, including Tupac Shakur and Jennifer Hudson. I understand that. Paul Laurence Dunbar. Paul Laurence Dunbar High School is part of Dayton City Schools. Hello, Kojo. Well, if you read the book "First Class: The Legacy of Dunbar, America's First Black Public High School," you now know who this Miner person was. Well, you know, I left the PBS show "Need to Know" to finish this book. NNAMDINo need to open the debate about charter schools here because, well, it's never closed. STEWARTAnd I think the reason it has struck so hard in D.C. and stuck to Dunbar's history I think is twofold. kojo@wamu.org, 4401 Connecticut Avenue NW|Washington, D.C. 20008|(202) 885-1200, Author Briana Thomas On Black Broadway In Washington D.C. And The History Of D.C.s Black Culture, Kevin Young Takes The Helm Of Smithsonian African American Museum, A Conversation With PBS NewsHours Judy Woodruff. And thank you all for listening. I update it with stories from Dunbar graduates, and I also established a scholarship I want to say called the First Class Scholarship with the United Negro College Fund. STEWARTAt first, I thought it was really a sad story. I also know that a lot of people don't know that Dunbar was named after him, the school. Its a state-of-the-art facility nestled right in the middle of one of the citys fastest-changing neighborhoods. CLAIREI have to tell you, I have the privilege of reading for the blind, and I had the even better privilege of running across Paul Laurence Dunbar as one of the assignments that I had to read. D.C.s Dunbar High School will begin classes this year in a brand new building. Be the first to add an DHS famous alumni. of St. Louis, Mo. His writing is absolutely brilliant, but he had a very sad life. Tyrone Curtis "Muggsy" Bogues (born January 9, 1965) is a retired American basketball player. Formal partnerships are or will be developed for each Academy. Go ahead, please. DC People & Places: Black History Spotlight - Dunbar High School Paul Laurence Dunbar High School (Lexington, Kentucky)