DDMS PTA

Eating Out Benefits DDMS

In January, Dickey's Barbecue hosted a family night and donated 15% of the proceeds. This money will help to fund events like the Spring Book Fair (the week of May 4^th) and Family Fun Night (May 4^thfrom 5:30-8:30pm.)

Ruckus Pizza hosts family nights on the first Monday and Tuesday of the month (the next days are March 5^th and 6^th.) For details and the coupon, visit our restaurant rewards page.

This spring, look for additional Crossroads-Area restaurants to participate in family nights.

Charlotte Bobcats Ticket Discount

NCPTA members, families and friends will receive up to $7 off and $3 from every ticket purchased will benefit NCPTA Family Involvement Programs. Tix are available for Friday, March 23, 7 p.m.(vs. Milwaukee Bucks)and Friday, April 20, 7 p.m.(vs. Memphis Grizzlies)at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte.Visit the NCPTA Nights with the Bobcats page for purchase info.

Spirit Wear for Spring

Beginning in March, Spirit Wear will be available for sale on the first and third Friday of each month (March 2, March 16^th are the next sales days.) Spirit Wear Info

Spirit Wear is getting a spring makeover. T's will be white but with the same logo.

USDA Announces New Standards for School Meals

First Lady Michelle Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently unveiled the new standards for school meals...Read NC PTA's Latest News.

National African American History Month, 2012

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

...This year's theme, "Black Women in American Culture and History," invites us to pay special tribute to the role African American women have played in shaping the character of our Nation -- often in the face of both racial and gender discrimination. As courageous visionaries who led the fight to end slavery and tenacious activists who fought to expand basic civil rights to all Americans, African American women have long served as champions of social and political change... Read the entire proclamation.

Dr. Maya Angelou

Dr. Maya Angelou is one of the most renowned and influential voices of our time. Hailed as a global renaissance woman, Dr. Angelou is a celebrated poet, memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker, and civil rights activist.

She has lived all over the world including NC where she is Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University. Frequently, she is asked to participate in African American History Month.

Dr. Angelou says she looks forward to the time when Black History Month won't be needed. "You hope that the time will come when it won't be necessary, when there won't be racial prejudices or sexual prejudices," said Angelou, a noted activist, author and poet who lives in Winston-Salem. But great change takes time, she said, "so we have the work cut out to do what we can to make our country more than it is today. It will be necessary to have a Black History Month until the playing field is leveled, until black history and Latino history are all part of the history, period."¹

Her Interviews with 5 Celebrities

This year, she will discuss the civil-rights era in a new hourlong radio program airing in syndication on more than 200 radio stations across the country. For the program, she interviews five people to get different points of view: Andrew Young, a former United Nations ambassador, who discusses his relationship with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.; Julianne Malveaux, an economist and the president of Bennett College, who discusses the impact the civil-rights movement had on economics and education; poet Nikky Finney, who talks about growing up in a family involved in the civil-rights movement; U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., who shares his experiences of participating in the Freedom Rides of 1961; and Grammy-winning singer Mary J. Blige, who will play singer and civil-rights activist Nina Simone² in an upcoming movie.

The special will air at 3 p.m. Feb. 28 on WFDD 88.5 FM. For details, go to MayaAngelouOnPublicRadio.com

¹http://www2.journalnow.com/news/2012/feb/11/wsmet01-angelou-hosts-black-history-month-radio-pr-ar-1917908/
²Nina Simone(February 21,1933–April 21,2003)singer,songwriter,civil rights activist http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/02/maya-angelou-nina-simone-racial-prejudice_n_1251192.html