AT&T SC African American History Calendar
Since 1997, The Rackes Group has designed the website and all web
communications for the AT&T SC African American History Calendar.
Each year a new look is unveiled to match the new calendar of honorees.
The calendar is a who's who of leaders in business, the arts, religion, communication, education, entertainment and other fields.
This is the 20th year the calendar has been distributed, said Martha
Smith, the project coordinator and a former social studies teacher.
When the project began, "there were really no black role models for
kids" and few references to black people's contributions to South
Carolina in history textbooks.
"From an African-American standpoint ... it's like a renaissance of our culture," Smith said.
TheRackesGroups challenge is to keep the calendar website (and calendar design for the past 7 years) fresh and different, yet still matching with the vision of the calendar.
The calendar is a project of AT&T and partners including WIS-TV,
ETV, the S.C. Department of Education, the USC Department of Journalism
and Mass Communications and The State.
For more information and to download a calendar and biographies of the calendar honorees, go to www.scafricanamerican.com.