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Racial justice alliance awards Shields students
Shields Elementary School students Brandon Wilkinson and Miriam Keefer were recognized Feb. 24 with the African American/Black Achievement Award from the Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice.
By Ellen Driscoll
March 4, 2021
Read the entire Cape Gazette article here.
SDARJ Taking Applications for 2021 Charlotte King Scholarship Program
The Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice (SDARJ) is taking applications for the 2021 Charlotte King Scholarship Program. Awards will be made to Sussex County graduating seniors for the 2020-2021 academic year. For more information about the 2021 Charlotte King Scholarship Program, including eligibility and criteria, visit our Scholarship Program page.
Congratulations to the youth of Southern Delaware
Cape Gazette – COMMENTARY
Joseph Lawson
March 16, 2021
On March 7, a one-of-a-kind event took place in Delaware. A youth-led group, supported by local adults, marched across the Indian River bridge in a nonpartisan event to honor and commemorate the life and work of civil rights pioneer John Lewis. Even more amazing is that these young people both came up with this idea and worked to take it from what might have seemed an impossible fantasy to a reality.
March 7 was the 66th anniversary of the John Lewis-led march of the Selma bridge, aka Bloody Sunday. That march is credited as leading to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which prohibits discrimination from voting on the basis of race. By doing so, it changed America. Or so was the hope. The fact is that voting was then and continues to be one of the most controversial and divisive issues in America.
Read the entire Cape Gazette commentary here.
SDARJ March Town Hall – Good Trouble: Still Marching
In case you missed it, or just want to view it again, you can view the SDARJ March Town Hall meeting (Good Trouble: Still Marching) here. Please note that for legal reasons the TEDTALK interview between Representative John Lewis and Bryan Stevenson has been omitted.
SDARJ Awards Beacon Middle students
By Ellen Driscoll – March 3, 2021
Beacon Middle students Aubrie Smith and Jameson Tingle were recognized Feb. 11 with the African American/Black Achievement Award from the Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice.
Please click here to read the entire Cape Gazette article.
