Student Leadership Johns Creek Hosts Black History Month Webinar

JOHNS CREEK, GA — Student Leadership Johns Creek will be hosting an informational webinar to kick off Black History Month at 7 p.m. on Feb. 4. Students from Northview and Centennial high schools will moderate the webinar in an effort to learn more about the past and present plans for the Macedonia Cemetery. To attend, register online.

Although the Macedonia Cemetery, which the city is in the process of acquiring, consists of over 100 burial sites of formerly enslaved African Americans and their descendants, as time has passed the conditions of the graveyard has substantially diminished, leaving the site uncared for. The cemetery has been abandoned leading to: unmaintained and broken headstones, unmarked graves of various enslaved individuals and their descendants, and deprivation of the overall Macedonia property.

There is much work to be done to restore this site and the students focus is to raise awareness in the community through this webinar, a website they have created and a GoFundMe page to assist in funding many of the planned improvements. The ultimate goal is to create a Memorial Garden.

Guest panelists include Joan Compton, President of the Johns Creek Historical Society; Kirk Canaday, board member of the Johns Creek Historical Society; City Council Members Brian Weaver and Erin Elwood and Johns Creek Visitors Association President Lynda Lee Smith.

Student Leadership Johns Creek has been part of the Johns Creek community for eight years, and
is currently accepting applications for this two-year program from rising sophomores and juniors at Centennial, Chattahoochee, Johns Creek, Northview and Innovation Academy. For more information, contact Executive Director Irene Sanders at sanders@leadershipjohnscreek.com 404-406-0480 or visit the website.