Keizer students take on roles in celebration of Black History Month

Wearing basketball uniforms, fake mustaches or suits, fifth-grade students lined the walls of Keizer Elementary School’s multipurpose room last week. 

Each stood next to their poster on an influential Black person and eagerly presented their findings to relatives and younger students who packed the room.

The living Black History Museum, held on Friday, Feb. 27, by Danielle Rabenberg’s dual-language class, allowed students to present on Olympic gymnast Simone Biles, poet Maya Angelou, early 20th-century scientist…