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Elder A. Lukata’s
PLANNERS-FOR-SCHOOLS MISSION:
SEEKING BLACK SPONSORS

to FUND PRINTING/SHIPPING

of 2,500 COPIES.
TARGETED AMOUNT NEEDED: $5,500.
AMOUNT PLEDGED SO FAR: $

Help Community Elder A. Lukata Supply 2,500 FREE COPIES

to Multiple Schools in the U.S…

...so that the students will have Black History (and important general history) in their hands throughout the year.

TARGETED SCHOOLS for 2026:

Lanier Jr. Sr. High School (Jackson, MS). Thomas E. Edwards Sr. High School (Ruleville, MS), and Humphrey’s County High School (Belzoni, MS). (More in other national locales may be coming.)

Lanier Jr. Sr. High School was founded on 1925 as a junior and senior high school. It was named after William Henry Lanier (1855-1929), who was superintendent of Black schools in Jackson from 1912 until his death. Due to segregation, Lanier was reserve for Black students until 1969, when Jackson's schools were integrated by law. Lanier High School played a significant role in the Civil Rights Movement, particularly during the 1963 walk-out protesting Woolworth's treatment of students from Tougaloo College. The school's students were involved in non-violent protest training and marches, which were met with police intervention and arrests.

Thomas E. Edwards, Sr. High School, previously known as Ruleville Central High School, was renamed in 2018 to honor Thomas Edwards, a former superintendent of the school district. Ruleville Central High School was originally named Ruleville Colored School. In 1998, a tornado caused extensive damage to classrooms and the gymnasium, with 1 inch (2.5 cm) of water flooding. Principal Jimmy Smith estimated $1 million as a "conservative" estimate of damage,[9] and Mayor Harvey Springer added that looters had entered the school. On July 1, 2012, nearby Drew School District was consolidated into the Sunflower County School District. As a result, the Sunflower County School District's attendance boundary expanded, and the high school division of Drew Hunter High School was closed, with its high school students rezoned to Ruleville Central.

Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer (October 6, 1917- March 14, 1977), of Ruleville, MS, was an African-American voting and women's rights activist, community organizer, and leader within the Civil Rights Movement. She was the vice-chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), which she represented at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Mrs. Hamer also helped organize Mississippi's Freedom Summer in 1964 along with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). She was co-founder of the National Women's Political Caucus, an organization created to recruit, train, and support women of all races who sought election to government offices

Humphreys County High School is a public senior high school in Belzoni, Mississippi, United States and a part of the Humphreys County School District. The county itself was named for Confederate general and Mississippi governor Benjamin Humphreys. Belzoni, the county seat, was selected by the state legislature when the county was formed. Humphreys County, situated in the central Delta region, has a history rooted in agriculture, particularly cotton cultivation before and after the Civil War. The attendance boundary of the school district, and therefore the school's attendance boundary, is all of Humphreys County. After the school integrated racially (sometime around 1970), black students had protested against verbal abuse used against black students by the principal, a white person; white teachers giving failing grades to black students; and the calling of black students "nigger" and "nigra."

Reverend George W. Lee (December 25-1903 - May 7, 1955) was an African-American Civil Rights Leader, minister, and entrepreneur. He was a vice-president of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and one of the first African Americans registered to vote in Humphreys County, Mississippi since Reconstruction. In 1953, Lee and Gus Courts co-founded the Belzoni branch of the NAACP. He used his pulpit and his printing press to urge others to vote. He was assassinated in 1955, just 3 months before the murder of Emmett Till, in retaliation for his efforts to register African Americans to vote.

We are hoping that advertising sponsors will underwrite the cost of supplying 2,500 2026 TBM PLANNERS for these students. The PLANNERS are to be gifted to the students upon their return after Christmas Break as a guide to the students to encourage them in both seeing and planning their future and cultural identity through historical facts. Your sponsorship will make this—and more—possible.

*FOR SPONSORSHIP DETAILS FOR GRAPHIC-AD SPACES: Please reach out to Community Elder A . Lukata at 601-345-6678 and/or alchikuyu@yahoo.com. Thank You. (Also available to help: Keith Anderson at Blackindustry@yahoo.com.)

*FOR ONE-LINE ADS: Contact Keith Anderson at Blackindustry@yahoo.com.

(*The TBM PLANNER will be printed in batches (500-copy batch, 1,000-copy, 2,500-copy, etc.) according to sponsorship affordability rather than being printed in a single mass quantity. Graphic ads will appear only in the particular batches they fund and may change from batch to batch. One-Line ads will remain constant and will appear in all copies of all batches printed for that year.)

Paper Stock:
Cover--80# Uncoated Text (White)
Inner Pages--70# Uncoated Text (White)
Slated to be printed by MPUptown.com--a Black-owned printing firm.

Graphic Ad Space examples are below. If interested, please indicate how much you’d be willing to pay for your selected spaces. *To see where the ad pages would be located in the PLANNER itself, **click HERE, then scroll down to see all pages and then advance from page to page. (*Also see the updated contents of the 2026 edition if desired.)

**To see examples of ONE-LINE ADS, advance to Page 4, then scroll down to PAGES 36 & 37.

FRONT COVER ad space is 7-1/2 H X 4-1/2.

Internal Pages ad spaces are:
FULL (8-1/8 X 10-3/4), HALF (8-1/8 H X 5-5/16 V & 4H X 10-3/4 V),
QUARTER (4 H X 5-5/16 V).