In honor of the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, APS helped make this month’s R.E.A.L. Men Read event a family affair. Isaac Farris Jr. read to students at Hope-Hill and Toomer elementary schools from “My Brother Martin,” a children’s book by his mother, Christine King Farris. (Check out the photo gallery here.) Subtitled “A Sister Remembers: Growing up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,” the book features rich illustrations (by Chris Soentpiet) that detail the civil-rights legend and Atlanta native’s work in the movement (and his home life) during the 1950s and 60s.
While regular R.E.A.L. Men Read volunteers Mike Howard, Frederick Rucker and Andre Barron focused on their second-grade classes, Farris read to the school’s entire third-grade class assembled in the media center.
