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SDARJ awards H.O. Brittingham students
The Cape Gazette | December 29, 2021
The Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice recently honored H.O. Brittingham Elementary students Cassidy Parson and Kylee Powell for their demonstration of leadership, improvement, effort and excellence.
Cassidy, a third-grader, always has a smile on her face and is a terrific school leader. Teachers say she brightens the day at HOB by helping her friends and teachers when needed. Cassidy shows others how to use their 7 Habits and is a role model at HOB. Teachers say she is amazing and will continue to be a leader in the community as she grows up.
Kylee, a fourth-grader, is an outstanding leader at HOB who uses her 7 Habits in the classroom and cafeteria, and on the playground. Kylee is also leading the way as a bilingual learner and part of the first class of Spanish immersion students excelling at HOB. Teachers say Kylee is a kind and helpful young lady who is going to do remarkable things in her life. Read the entire Cape Gazette article here.
SDARJ January 11th Town Hall
Happy New Year! Hope you’re rested and ready to go! Join us for the first town hall of 2022 on January 11.
This town hall, presented in collaboration with the ACLU’s Smart Justice Campaign, will honor Martin Luther King and will examine his work from a different standpoint. In keeping with our 2021 presentations on Racial Justice Through Reimagining Policing, this town hall will examine Rev. King’s speeches and work that focus on Policing. Although Rev. King’s speeches focused on segregation through the lens of poverty, labor, global human rights and war, his work also focused extensively on police brutality and structural discrimination. Register for the Town Hall at: https://mlkpolicing.eventbrite.com
First all-Black team of climbers heading to Everest
Nearly 70 years ago, New Zealand explorer Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first confirmed climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the world’s tallest peak. Since then, just over 10,000 others have completed the feat. Of those, only a handful have been Black and only one a Black American. In May, under the name of Full Circle Everest Expedition, a team of nine, highly qualified Black climbers intend to change that.
The brainchild of team leader Phillip Henderson, 58, the project is about “summiting Everest first,” and “everything else second.”
But with 30 years of climbing, mountaineering and working in the outdoors industry, often as the only Black person in any group, Henderson sees the Everest expedition as a way to bring diversity and change to his chosen field. Read the entire Washington Post article here.
SDARJ Display at the Lewes Public Library
Be sure to visit the SDARJ display at the Lewes Public Library. The display features our newsletter (“Black Voices”), the Book and Film Group, and our activist events.
video of SDARJ Kwanzaa Celebration
In case you missed it (or just want to view it again) the Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice (SDARJ) celebrated the African-American holiday Kwanzaa during the December Town Hall. Click to view the SDARJ Kwanzaa celebration.
