CASTLEMONT HIGH SCHOOLS GARDEN GETS FACE LIFT
When President Barack Obama declared Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday a National Service Day, a group of volunteers joined Mo' Better Food to revamp Castlemont high school's garden.
Founding Notes
By David Roach
My last year at Morehouse College, in the class, Urban Economics and Public Policy, our class was assigned to write a research paper on "Solutions for Economic Development in the African -American community."
What I discovered, during my research, became an adventure to not just write about strategies and methods to improve the economics in our communities, but to prove it.
After reading the book, Up From Slavery, by Booker T. Washington, I was inspired to become a school teacher. I started substitute teaching. Soon after, full- time in East Palo, East Oakland, West Oakland.
If you know anything about the Bay Area, these areas are known as high crime, high unemployment, and mostly African -American (they were mostly African -American in those days- gentrification has reduced the African American population over the past 20 years).
However, after reading Up From Slavery, I felt, if Booker T. Washington and his staff, could bake their own bricks, to build their buidings at Tuskegee, right out of slavery, than surely we can rebuild our neighborhoods today!