{"id":174110,"date":"2026-02-21T08:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T08:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/174110\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T08:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T08:53:07","slug":"west-oso-celebrates-black-history-month-with-student-performances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/174110\/","title":{"rendered":"West Oso celebrates Black History Month with student performances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 West Oso ISD students celebrated Black History Month today, honoring the enduring legacy and contributions of African Americans.<\/p>\n<p>The event took place at West Oso Junior High School auditorium this morning. Students from pre-K through 12th grade came together to highlight accomplishments from the 1920s to the 2020s.<\/p>\n<p>The celebration featured music, praise dancers, and honored special guests including Adrian Caldwell, the first NBA player from Corpus Christi who graduated from West Oso in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want our students to know where they came from. This has been the year when the Molina movie was made and so the students have a heightened awareness of the uniqueness of West Oso that it was a community, always formed on the idea that all students deserve equitable opportunities,&#8221; Moore said.<\/p>\n<p>The district says the celebration reaffirms their commitment to education, equity, and unity \u2014 values that strengthen West Oso ISD and the community they serve.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest local news updates, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/news\/local-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>, or download the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/about-us\/kris-6-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News App. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catch all the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/KRIS6News\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News stories and more on our YouTube page<\/a>. Subscribe today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 West Oso ISD students celebrated Black History Month today, honoring the enduring legacy and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[56124,70379,155,157,156,70380,70381,13289],"class_list":["post-174110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-black-history-month","tag-community-unity","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-education-equity","tag-student-celebration","tag-west-oso-isd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}