{"id":936,"date":"2018-02-16T13:09:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T21:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/?p=62371"},"modified":"2018-02-16T13:09:56","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T21:09:56","slug":"local-mans-goal-to-send-underprivileged-students-to-see-black-panther-blocked-by-lbusd-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/local-mans-goal-to-send-underprivileged-students-to-see-black-panther-blocked-by-lbusd-officials","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: LBUSD Approves Local Man&#8217;s Initiative to Send Low-Income Students to See BLACK PANTHER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATE | <\/strong>After more than a week of unreturned phone calls and emails,\u00a0LBUSD Superintendent Chris Steinhauser approved local artist Senay Kenfe&#8217;s goal to send almost 900 underprivileged Long Beach students to see Black Panther in theaters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He said he heard I was working on a project that he was interested in and gave me the green light,&#8221; Kenfe told the <em>Post<\/em>. &#8220;Superintendent Chris Steinhauser was very understanding of the cultural moment that we are taking part in [&#8230;] and acknowledged my insistence that Title I students [see the movie].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kenfe will now begin negotiations with Cinemark.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PREVIOUSLY: Local Man&#8217;s Goal to\u00a0Send Underprivileged Students to See BLACK PANTHER Blocked by LBUSD Officials<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2\/16\/18 at 1:09PM |<\/strong> The local artist who joined the #BlackPantherChallenge by starting his own GoFundMe to send low-income, Central Long Beach students to see Marvel\u2019s latest superhero flick has hit a roadblock.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"MWCtlZbsAN\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/local-artist-using-black-panther-challenge-to-spread-positive-imagery-to-underprivileged-students\">Local Artist Using BLACK PANTHER Challenge To Spread Positive Imagery to Underprivileged Students<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Local Artist Using BLACK PANTHER Challenge To Spread Positive Imagery to Underprivileged Students&#8221; &#8212; the Hi-lo\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/local-artist-using-black-panther-challenge-to-spread-positive-imagery-to-underprivileged-students\/embed\/#?secret=SG4KKmqEQx#?secret=MWCtlZbsAN\" data-secret=\"MWCtlZbsAN\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Senay Kenfe took to Facebook Thursday to air his frustration that both the City of Long Beach and Long Beach Unified School District have yet to respond to his request to send 850-plus students to the theatres. The opening of the film is Friday.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/eclecticnative\/posts\/10212937148397029?pnref=story.unseen-section<\/p>\n<p>Kenfe told the <em>Post<\/em> he needs the approval of district officials because the schools need to have the \u201cok\u201d from administrators before being able to accept any tickets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s crazy to me they can post this,\u201d Kenfe said, referring to a tweet from @LongBeachMayor congratulating the Boys &amp; Girls Club of Long Beach for joining the challenge and sending 245 members to an advanced screening of the movie.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thanks to Regal and IMAX, 245 @BGCLongBeach members get to see an advanced screening of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlackPanther?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BlackPanther<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bgclb?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#bgclb<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BmoTjklFMg\">pic.twitter.com\/BmoTjklFMg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Office of Mayor Rex Richardson (@LongBeachMayor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LongBeachMayor\/status\/964287105600913408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m doing four times the amount and no response,\u201d Kenfe said. \u201cAll the schools that I&#8217;ve been in communication with have readily approved and been excited to accept.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kenfe said he started making calls on Tuesday of last week to the offices of the assistant superintendent, the public information office, the mayor\u2019s office, his city councilman\u2019s office, alongside sending multiple emails.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve all said they\u2019ll get back to me,\u201d Kenfe said, but none have responded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis slow response is lessening my opportunity to buy out a theater and have all children be inside which was my original plan. Not that I think this is a personal thing, more just a ready example of why things don\u2019t work in this city unless you&#8217;re connected,\u201d he continued, referring to the Boys &amp; Girls Club.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Post<\/em> reached out to LBUSD Thursday evening regarding the lack of response. 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