PLEASE JOIN US ON MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 2022 AT 10:00 AM FOR THE REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. THIRTIETH ANNUAL NATIONAL HOLIDAY WORSHIP SERVICE AT: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84282176356
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Announcement
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
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.
Register for the MLK Voice 4 Youth program
There is still time to register for the MLK Voice 4 Youth program! If you have young people in your lives, encourage them to get involved. Registration is open for this year’s contest until December 17th at https://www.ywcade.org/homepage/events/mlk-voice-4-youth-2022/, first place wins $2000!
Laboratories of Autocracy
We are so excited to partner with Ridgewood JOLT to welcome Author and former State Chair of the Ohio Democratic Party, David Pepper to break down the threat to Democracy that we are facing. We must be aware and share our knowledge to fight back. Please register at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1gec7U9fE7f8W4idqd_bZSzML3jb4yPwCbGWG-SJf2Us/edit to be sent a zoom link.
video of SDARJ Town Hall – Student Voices Matter: Racial Dynamics in School
If you missed it, or just want to watch it again, the SDARJ Town Hall – Student Voices Matter: Racial Dynamics in School is available for viewing on the SDARJ YouTube Channel at: https://youtu.be/JIZf5UGshsE
SDARJ to launch Black Voices magazine Nov. 5
Cape Gazette | October 25, 2021
Because Black voices are conspicuously missing from high positions in areas of life that affect everyone, the Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice is launching “Black Voices” magazine.
“Black Voices” will speak to the need of listening to these voices as equal partners in order to build a more just and equitable democracy.
Read the entire Cape Gazette article here.
SDARJ Town Hall meeting – Student Voices Matter: Racial Dynamics in School
SAVE THE DATE
November 9, 2021, at 7:00 p.m.
The SDARJ November Town Hall will feature the voices of current and recently graduated students from across the State. We will explore the current status of racial dynamics in our schools based on students’ real-life experiences. We will discuss, from a student perspective: what school administrators and faculty are doing to improve racial dynamics and what challenges remain; the implications of having a faculty that reflects the diversity of the student body; the importance of teaching a more complete version of American history; and the issues that are on the minds of students today. Register for this Town Hall at: https://sdarjstudentvoices.eventbrite.com
End The Filibuster: Save Our Democracy
All over the country, anti-voter extremists are passing laws to marginalize Black and Brown voters. The Freedom to Vote Act would stop those attacks by establishing a bold set of national standards to protect democracy so that no matter where you live or what you look like, your right to vote will not be infringed. Yet the bill has been blocked by a Senate rule, called the filibuster.
Please join us on Thursday, Nov. 4 at 7 p.m. to learn about the racist history of the filibuster and why it must be reformed or eliminated to protect the freedom to vote for all of us. It is free and open to the public, but registration is required: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZ0rd-2qpj8tHtJw2…
You can also read Senator Tom Carper’s Delaware Online opinion editorial “No barrier — not even the filibuster — must stop our obligation to our democracy” here.
