For Black History Month – A New Video Daily, Created By Lower Merion High School Students

by Gerry February 9, 2021

For Black History Month – A New Video Daily, Created By Lower Merion High School Students

From the Lower Merion School District Website –

Students from Lower Merion High School’s Becton Scholars Program and the buildOn community team have partnered to develop the American History Video Project. Each day throughout Black History Month, a new student-created video highlighting an iconic and influential African-American will be featured under the main “Celebrating BHM 2021″ tab.

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