Being Visible: Students for Change

Please note that this article appeared in the April 2021 edition of VIKING VENTURE, the Cape Henlopen High School Newspaper

Alissa Silva ’23 Editor

With the current state of the world, racial education is crucial in helping us progress. Sometimes, it feels as if our school education doesn’t speak about these prevalent topics, but there is an organization that does.

The Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice started from a group of Sussex County people who organized a study group to read “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’’ by Michelle Alexander. From this, the study group trans- formed into a social movement, shedding light on the racially-biased justice system. In the desire to take action, in June 2015, the SDARJ was created.

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