Diseased by CHS senior, Valerie Casmir. Listen to Casmir's poetry reading of I Am here.

CHS junior, Antoine Aoun, honors Luther Vandross here through the performance of Vandorss's cover of A House is not a Home by Bill Evans.

Artwork by CHS junior, Patrice Saunders.

Martin Luther King Jr.: humanitarian, writer, speaker, minister and civil rights activist during Civil Rights Movement, awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1964,

Featured in honor of Oprah Winfrey.

Mae Jemison: author, physicist, engineer, first African American woman astronaut.

Frederick Douglass: journalist, author, speaker, statesman, national leader of the abolitionist movement.

Harriet Tubman: writer, nurse during the Civil War, abolitionist, human rights defender, political activist, conductor of the Underground Railroad

Michael Jordan: Five-time league MVP, six-time champion, six-time NBA Finals MVP; ten-time All-NBA First Team, fourteen-time NBA All-Star, three-time NBA All-Star MVP, 50th Anniversary All-Time Team

Barack Obama: writer, former professor at the University of Chicago Law School, Civil Rights Attorney, first African American President of the US

Find this presentation on Haiti here, made by CHS senior, Joanne Octave.

Check out Feminist Club's slide show presentation on Black History Month here.

Artwork by CHS junior, Patrice Saunders.

Artwork by CHS junior, Patrice Saunders.

Michelle Obama: former First Lady of the US, first African American First Lady, attorney, speaker, author, advocate for poverty awareness, education, and health, founder of Let's Move!

Malcolm X: writer, speaker, minister, civil rights activist and human rights defender during Civil Rights Movement, most searched autobiography.

Maya Angelou: writer, performer, and social justice activist.

Rosa Parks: Civil rights activist and Human Rights Defender. Featured February 4th on National Rosa Parks Day.

Kamala Harris: author, politician, former San Francisco District Attorney, former US Senator from California, current Vice President of the US, first female, African American, and Asian American Vice President of the US.

Katherine Johnson: teacher, NASA physicist and mathematician.

Ruby Bridges: author, civil rights activist, first African American child to desegregate William Frantz Elementary School at six years old.

Simone Biles: five time Olympic Medalist, twenty-five time World Championship Medalist, most decorated American gymnast, third most decorated gymnast in the world

Find this presentation on black fashion here, by CHS sophomore, Lucia Curran-Barker.

The CHS Library has an incredible collection called Black History Month with 175 titles that can be found here.

Artwork by CHS junior, Patrice Saunders.

Artwork by CHS junior, Patrice Saunders.

MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech on August 28th, 1963.

Oprah Winfrey: writer, speaker, actress, television producer/presenter, and philanthropist, International Emmy Founders Award, 2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.

Langston Hughes: writer and social justice activist.

Featured in honor of Kamala Harris.

Carter G. Woodson: literary historian, journalist, author, founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, creator of Black History Month.

Watch and listen here to Patrice Saunder's performance, 83 Regis Rd Mattapan.

Sojourner Truth: author, abolitionist, human rights defender, women's rights activist

Artwork designed by CHS junior, Isabelle Crawford.

Artwork designed by CHS junior, Patrice Saunders.

Artwork designed by CHS junior, Isabelle Crawford.

Canton Women in History: Arielle Galinsky, a 2020 CHS graduate, co-salutatorian, and first-year college student at Tufts University, preserved the stories of Orchard Cove's residents in her new book, Their Lives Reflected, A Treasury of Life Stories Captured Through the Legacy Project. Galinsky is now pursuing a major in biopsychology and community health at Tufts, and the link to her new book can be found here. To learn more, you can find this article above in the Canton Citizen.

Women in History: Ruth Bader Ginsburg - lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the US, second female Supreme Court Justice, professor at Rutgers University Law School and at Columbia University where she became its first female tenured professor

Tuesday, March 2nd is International Teen Mental Wellness Day!

Women in History: Lady Gaga - philanthropist, director, actress, singer, pianist, songwriter, 11 time Grammy Award winner, Billboard's Artist of the Year and Woman of the Year, Social Activist, Mental Health Advocate and founder of Born This Way Foundation which can be accessed here.

Women in History: Henrietta Lacks - her cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line and one of the most important cell lines in medical research.

Rebecca Skloot - science writer, her first book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, was one of the best-selling new books of 2010, staying on The New York Times Bestseller list for over 6 years and eventually reaching #1. Find this book here.

Women in History: Malala Yousafzai - author, human rights defender, Pakistani activist for female education, youngest Nobel Prize laureate. Find her book here.

Women in History: Hannah Szenes - poet, Special Operations Executive member in WWII, one of 32 Jewish volunteer parachutists from Palestine that the British Army sent behind German lines for resistance and rescue efforts, infiltrated German-occupied Hungary on June 7, 1944.

Women in History: Megan Rapinoe - professional soccer player who plays as a winger and captains the OL Reign of the National Women's Soccer League, as well as the United States National Team, winner of The Best FIFA Women's Player award, Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year, advocate for racial justice, gender equality, and LGBTQAI+ rights.

Women in History: Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel - French fashion designer, feminist, and businesswoman, founder of Chanel, innovator of the woman’s suit, the quilted purse, costume jewelry, and the “little black dress,” introduced the perfume Chanel No. 5, credited in the post-World War I era with popularizing an empowering, casual chic as the new feminine style, replacing the uncomfortable "corseted silhouette" that was dominant before.

Women in History: Anne Frank - German-Dutch diarist of Jewish heritage, her diary, The Diary of a Young Girl, is the tenth most read book in the world, has sold over 30 million copies, and has been translated into 70 languages.

Women in History: Helen Keller - lost her sight and hearing after an unknown illness at the age of nineteen months, taught how to communicate by her instructor Anne Sullivan, first deaf blind person to earn a bachelor’s degree, author of twelve books including her autobiography, The Story of My Life, co-founded Helen Keller International, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Legion of Honor.

Women in History: Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka - Former Deputy President of South Africa, founder of the Umlambo Foundation which supports leadership and education, current Executive Director of United Nations Women with the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, working to promote gender equality and women empowerment. Read more about UN Women here.

Women in History: Kalpana Chawla - astronaut, engineer, first Indian-American astronaut and first woman of Indian origin to go to space, first flew on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997 as a mission specialist and primary robotic arm operator, Congressional Space Medal of Honor recipient.

Women in History: 신 선 영 Sun Yung Shin - writer, editor of the best-selling anthology A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota, author of poetry collections Unbearable Splendor (finalist for the 2017 PEN USA Literary Award for Poetry, winner of the 2016 Minnesota Book Award for poetry); Rough, and Savage; and Skirt Full of Black (winner of the 2007 Asian American Literary Award for poetry), co-editor of Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption, and author of bilingual illustrated book for children Cooper’s Lesson.

Artwork designed by CHS junior, Isabelle Crawford.

Artwork designed by CHS junior, Patrice Saunders.

Artwork designed by CHS junior, Nidhi Chanchiani

Hometown Hero in History: Kim Janey - made history in 2017 when she was elected to the Boston City Council as the first woman to represent District 7, 55th Acting Mayor of Boston, sworn in on March 24th, 2021, first woman and first Black person to serve as Mayor of Boston, her pandemic recovery priorities include distributing vaccines effectively, returning children to school safely, and centering disadvantaged workers and businesses in the city’s economic recovery, and she is committed to ensuring the city of Boston reopens safely and equitably, with relief and renewal in every neighborhood, recipient of the Boston NAACP Difference Maker Award in 2015 and was named one of Boston’s Most Impactful Black Women in 2021. Learn more about her here.

Women in History: Shirley Chisholm - writer, politician, lawyer, first African American congresswoman, first major-party Black candidate to make a bid for the U.S. presidency, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Women in History: Chloe Zhao - film director, producer, editor, and screenwriter, first Asian female director to take home a Golden Globe, first woman named Best Director since Barbra Streisand won almost 40 years ago.

Women in History: Marie Curie - nuclear physicist, chemist, pioneer in radiation study, contributions to finding cancer treatments, championed discovery of X-rays, discovered radium and polonium in 1898, first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903 for discovering radioactivity, won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1911 for isolating pure radium, first person to win two Nobel Prizes.

Women in History: Sonia Sotomayor- author, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the US, nominated by President Barack Obama on May 26, 2009 and has served since August 8, 2009, first Hispanic and Latina member of the Supreme Court.

Women in History: Serena Williams - professional tennis player, former world No. 1 in women's single tennis, winner of 23 Grand Slam singles titles which is the most by any player in the Open Era and the second-most of all time behind Margaret Court.

Women in History: Madam C.J. Walker - African American entrepreneur, philanthropist, political and social activist, recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Women in History: Sylvia Rivera - Puerto Rican American transgender activist and founder of STAR, one of the first trans youth shelters and also one of the first political organizations for transgender rights in the world. Today, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project is a non-profit organization that engages in policy work and provides trainings and free legal services for transgender, intersex, and gender non-conforming, low-income people of color.

Women in History: Thandiwe Abdullah - organizer with Black Lives Matter, activist with March for Our Lives, Co-Founder of the Black Lives Matter Youth Vanguard, helped to launch the Black Lives Matter in Schools campaign, she works to create safe spaces for black youth to organize around racism and anti blackness particularly in schools.

Women in History: Beyoncé - with her 28th win at the 63rd Annual Grammys Award show on March 14th, 2021, she became the most decorated woman in Grammy history. Beyoncé won best Music Video for Brown Skin Girl, best Rap Song and Rap Performance for Savage Remix, and best R&B Performance for Black Parade which tied her with producer Quincy Jones for the second most Grammys won by any person ever.

Women in History: Wilma Mankiller - American Cherokee activist, social worker, community developer, first female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation which is the second largest tribe in the US, focused on education, job training, and healthcare as Chief, Ms Magazine Woman of the Year in 1987, author of Mankiller: A Chief and Her People.

Women in History: Mother Teresa - humanitarian, Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary, founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic congregation of women dedicated to serving the sick and poor (particularly in India) with love and care, recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize for Peace and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Women in History: Becky Hammon - former professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs in the WNBA, assistant coach for the San Antonio Spurs of the NBA, first full-time female assistant coach in NBA history, first woman to act as an NBA head coach in a regular season game.

Women in History: Louisa May Alcott - nurse during Civil War, feminist, activist during women's suffrage movement, writer, Her work introduced readers to educated, strong, female heroines which greatly impacted American literature, wrote Little Women and Little Men.

Women in History: Terisa Siagatonu - award-winning poet, teaching artist, mental health educator, and community leader, recipient of President Obama’s Champion of Change Award in 2012 for her activism as a spoken word poet/organizer in her Pacific Islander community, activism in youth advocacy, educational attainment, Pacific Islander/Indigenous rights, climate change, LGBTQQIA rights, gender-based violence, perspective as a queer Samoan woman led her writing to blend the personal, cultural, and political in a way that calls for healing, courage, justice, and truth. Find her website here.

Women in History: Hillary Clinton - politician, diplomat, lawyer, writer, speaker, social justice activist, served as the 67th United States Secretary of State, first female Senator from NY, First Lady of the US, first woman to represent a major party in a US presidential election, first woman to win the Iowa Presidential Caucus, in 1988 and 1991 she was named one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America, recipient of the Democratic Woman of the Year from the Woman's National Democratic Club, Hillary Rodham Clinton Award named in her honor.

Members of Feminist Club worked together to form a list of words that represent the power of women. CHS junior, Isabelle Crawford, then integrated all these inspiring words into this word splash with a silhouette of Rosie the Riveter. Learn more about Rosie the Riveter here.

Listen to Patrice Saunders's phenomenal, original poem for Women's History Month here.

Artwork designed by CHS junior, Patrice Saunders.

Marching Through Women's History: During the past month, Feminist Club took time to decorate the Rho Kappa Board (in the History Hall of CHS) twice to honor the annual D.C. Women's March and for Women's History Month! In addition to the board, the club lined the halls with student-designed posters centered around themes of feminism and its true meaning, and the superpower of self acceptance to celebrate the Women March. Feminist Club also just ran a drive to collect donations for care packages for Rosie’s Place, a women's shelter in Stoughton.

Tuesday, March 2nd is Read Across America Day!

Women in History: Marley Dias - Social Activist, founder of #1,000BlackGirlsBooks and writer, author of Marley Dias Gets It Done: And So Can You, advocates for empowering representation and diversity in literature, youngest member of the Forbes 30 under 30 list, find her website here.

Women in History: America Ferrera - actress, television and film producer, Golden Globe and Emmy award recipient for Ugly Betty. Watch her Ted Talk, "My identity is a superpower-not an obstacle" here.

Women in History: Patsy Takemoto Mink -attorney, politician, first woman of color elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, first Asian-American woman to serve in Congress, first East Asian-American woman to seek the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party.

Women in History: Gloria Steinem - feminist, journalist, social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the 1960s and 1970s, columnist for New York magazine, co-founder of Ms. magazine with Dorothy Pitman Hughes.

Dorothy Pitman Hughes - feminist, Child-Welfare Advocate, social justice activist, public speaker, author, pioneering African American small business owner, co-founder of Ms. Magazine.

Women in History: Alex Morgan - professional soccer player for the Orlando Pride of the National Women's Soccer League which is the highest division of women's professional soccer in the United States, player on the United States women's National Soccer Team.

Women in History: Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón - dealt with chronic pain from a bus accident and contracted polio but nevertheless persisted, one of the greatest Mexican painters known for her many self-portraits and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico, received the National Prize of Arts and Sciences, women's rights activist.

Women in History: Claudia Gordon - first deaf student to graduate from American University’s law school, first deaf Black female attorney in the US, advocate for the deaf and disabled communities in the US, worked at the National Council on Disability, the National Coalition for Disability Rights, and Homeland Security.

Women in History: Taylor Swift - became the first female performer ever to win Album of the Year three times at the 63rd Annual Grammys Awards show on March 14th, 2021. She won this year for her album, Folklore, which she made entirely during quarantine, and won previously for her albums Fearless and 1989.

Women in History: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) - climate activist, politician serving as the US Representative for New York's 14th congressional district since 2019, taking office at age 29, Ocasio-Cortez is the youngest woman ever to serve in the US Congress, youngest member of the 116th Congress.

Women in History: Amelia Earhart - author, aviation pioneer, 16th woman to get her pilot's license, first female aviator and second person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, broke women's altitude record when she rose to 14,000 feet, founder of The Ninety-Nines which is an organization for female pilots.

Women in History: Wilma Rudolph - contracted polio at four years of age which disabled her left leg (her doctors told her she would never walk again), nevertheless she persisted and won a bronze medal in the Olympics at 16, and at the 1960 Olympics she became "the fastest woman in the world," and the first American woman to win three gold medals in one Olympics.

Women in History: Susan B. Anthony - Social reformer of temperance, abolition, the rights of labor, and equal pay for equal work, women's rights activist, one of the most influential leaders and speakers during the women's suffrage movement, co-founded the American Equal Rights Association with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and became an editor of the Association’s newspaper, The Revolution, which helped to spread the ideas of equality and rights for women, formed the National Woman Suffrage Association with Stanton (learn more here) to push for a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote.

Women in History: Sandra Oh - actress, best known for her starring roles as Cristina Yang on the ABC medical drama series Grey's Anatomy and Eve Polastri in the spy thriller series Killing Eve, member of the 2019 TIME 100 List, two time Golden Globe Award recipient, and two time Screen Actors Guild Award recipient.

Women in History: Viola Davis - actress and producer, best known for her roles in Fences, How to Get Away With Murder, and The Help, having won an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Tony Awards, she is the first African American to achieve the "Triple Crown of Acting," member of the 2012 and 2017 TIME 100 List.

In order to help others to the best of your ability, you need to take care of yourself first!

Learn more about Toxic Positivity here.

Excerpt from Good Morning, by Brook Noel. Learn more about igniting your spark and finding flow from Ms. Bousquet's practice here.

Enjoy the beautiful weather outside while practicing mindfulness in nature! Find Ms. Bousquet's link to a guided awe walk here.

Be empowered to take action with this excerpt for you to fill in from The Positivity Journal, a guided journal for inspiration, affirmation, and gratitude to embrace your best self.

Living in gratitude for what was and what is with hope in the now for what could be, will lead to a positive perspective and an optimistic outlook on life.

"For there is always light, if only we're brave enough to see it, if only we're brave enough to be it." ~Amanda Gorman

It All Begins With Hope - Junita Flowers - TedX

Inner Health Studio Guided Mediation Scripts: here

If You Want to Change the World, Start Off by Making Your Bed - William McRaven, US Navy Admiral

Positive Impact

Leading with Lollipops - Drew Dudley - TedX

Shine from Within - Nikki Banas

Tuesday, March 2nd is International Teen Mental Wellness Day. Educate yourself about Mental Health on teenmentalhealth.org here. Your mind matters!

Check out Ms. Bousquet's resource from the American Psychological Association to practice balance for harmony in your life here.

Gratitude has the power to open your mindset to bring positivity into your life! Click here to find Ms. Bousquet's Gratitude Practice. You can create a gratitude photo album or journal!

Wishes from Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Life Vest Inside - Kindness Boomerang

Find Grit-Don't Quit!

Above is an excerpt for you to fill in from The Positivity Journal, a guided journal for inspiration, affirmation, and gratitude to embrace your best self.

Essence + Expression = Guiding Purpose

These are cards from the Mindful Living Card Deck, which help to build habits of sustainable happiness through balance, and can be found here.

Learn about finding meaning with this Ted Talk: There's more to life than being happy - Emily Esfahani Smith

Find Emily Esfahani Smith's website here

Fuel your light!

This is an excerpt for you to fill in from The Positivity Journal, a guided journal for inspiration, affirmation, and gratitude to embrace your best self.

For more on the power of passion and perseverance, listen to the Morning Mindset podcast episode, Perseverance with Grit & Grace, here. Listen to more of these podcasts for cultivating positivity to thrive through adversity. These episodes will send you through your day with a boost of optimism, energy, confidence, and mental clarity.

St. Patrick's Day edition: The excerpt above is from the book, Shine from Within, by Nikki Banas. The second excerpt below is from the book, Milk and Honey, by Rupi Kaur.

Saturday, March 20th is the International Day of Happiness! :) Check out Ms. Bousquet's Happiness Practices here!

Flashback to February Kindness Challenge!

"Kindness is spreading sunshine into other people's lives regardless of the weather."

"It’s not the reality that shapes us, but the lens which your brain views the world shapes your reality. If we can change your lens, we can change your happiness."

Power of Perspective!

Power of Fitness - Vincent Lam - TedX