Artistic posters promote the history of blacks in Palm Beach County.

Palm Beach County, Florida. Art is popping up all over Palm Beach highlighting black culture in honor of Black History Month and the pioneers who paved the way for current generations.

It’s called the Kijan Education Empowerment Initiative, and the organizers have 50 different posters featuring black leaders.

They hope to distribute them for free to as many schools, libraries, and other places as they want.

“Diversity and inclusion is absolutely important because we live in a diverse society and we need to make sure we take into account all the different cultures that are represented in our society,” Dr. Clarence Walker, social science teacher at Suncoast High School and said sponsor of the school’s black student union.

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The set was donated to Suncoast High School in Riviera Beach on Tuesday, where students from the Black Student School Union began putting them on display.

“I think what’s really good about that is that there are a lot of people that they don’t know because there’s a lot of black history that isn’t taught in that sense, and so there are a lot of questions and a lot of discussion that starts because of that these people are being exposed in this way,” said Justin Ricketts, president of the Suncoast Black Student Union. “Black History Month generates a lot of discussion, many people pay attention to it, there is a lot of time to really celebrate and really enjoy black culture and everything related to it.”

The Kijana project was created by James Cummings, who worked as a teacher in Kenya and has an MA in African History.

“My mission was to expand knowledge about Africa, schools and high schools, because I found that I taught in high school that there is a big gap, a huge, huge gap between knowledge of the complex scientific level of Africa and high school and high school across the country” , Cummings said.

There will also be a cash prize essay competition to better encourage youth to participate and learn about the people depicted in the artwork.

“It’s very inspiring to me,” said Claire Salmon, poster graphic designer and US operations manager for Kijana. “Art is meant to be shared and it should be a learning process and I think every time kids see something new, a new figure or a new role model, it’s an opportunity to discover a new path.”