The Atlanta Fulton Public Library will hold a Caribbean Spelling Bee competition in celebration of National Caribbean American Heritage Month.  Children and teens up to the 8th grade will take part in this first annual spelling bee focused on Caribbean people, places and things. The list of spelling words will be made available on request. Prizes will be awarded for first, second and third places.

Cost: Free and open to the public.

Suggested Audiences: High School, Middle School, Elementary

E-mail: monica.foderingham@fultoncountyGA.gov
Phone: 404-730-1904

Dr. Noel Erskine’s latest book is Plantation Church.  The Atlanta Jamaican is professor of Theology and Ethics at Emory’s Candler School of Theology.  His research interests include the historical and complex nature of black theology and pedagogy, the history and development of the black church,  Revivalism, Rastafarianism, Afro-Christianity in the Caribbean and the American South, and theological method in the work of James Cone, Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Martin Luther King Jr.

A book launch and signing will be held at the Atlanta Central Library on June 14th at 4 pm.

David Panton is now an Adjunct Professor at the prestigious Goizueta Business School at Emory University in Atlanta.

Panton who lives in Buckhead is co-founder and partner of Navigation Capital Partners.

He was born in Mandeville and credits the Rev. Keith Panton, his father, as being an inspiring role model who worked his way “from growing up poor” to becoming the first black chief executive of a Jamaican company. The senior Panton later became a priest, but the allure of business had been embedded in his son.

Panton, a Rhodes Scholar, holds a PhD from Oxford University and was the youngest member of his undergraduate class at Princeton University at the age of 20. Then, at Harvard Law School, he was one of two black presidents in the history of the prestigious Harvard Law Review. The other was President Barack Obama.