Claflin loses to Benedict 66-54

For host team Claflin University, the 66-54 loss to longtime rival Benedict College was still a disappointing setback. From poor shooting (33 percent from the field) and 16 turnovers to having two players whistled for technical fouls, the Panthers fourth loss in the past five games was less about the Tigers dominance than what head coach Ron Woodard saw as a team lacking in effort and discipline.

Remembering Rosa Parks

Parks was arrested, but her act of bravery set off a chain of events that changed the United States. African Americans responded to the injustice by refusing to ride buses in Montgomery, where about three-quarters of bus riders were black. Martin Luther King Jr. led the peaceful boycott, which lasted 381 days. In 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that African Americans could not be forced to sit only in certain areas on buses. And in 1964, the Civil Rights Act outlawed racial discrimination in all public places.

History of Music
My character has to put together a show for Black History Month, and she's struggling because she's trying to write a song that really incorporates black music and black artists. She's really struggling with how to fit all of this stuff into a minute-long song. So when she goes into her studio, trying to come up with ideas, she falls into this dream world, where she actually becomes people like [jazz singer] Ella Fitzgerald, [pop singer] Janet Jackson and [soul singer] Aretha Franklin.

Sitting Down to Take a Stand

On February 1, 1960, four black teens sat down at a "whites-only" Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair Jr. and David Richmond wanted much more than the coffee and donuts the waitress refused to serve them. Their goal was to stop the unfair treatment of blacks at that lunch counter and many other places in the United States.