The Cape Gazette | March 9, 2022
The Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice recently honored Cape High students Sierra Horsey and Davien Weathersby for their demonstration of leadership, improvement, effort and excellence. Read the entire Cape Gazette article here.
The ordinance coming up for discussion Monday, March 7, would allow the reel to remain where it is. This issue has been in limbo now for way too long, and it’s time to let the reel stand. Putting it on the LHS main campus was and continues to be an action that helps lift Black people to their rightful place in Lewes’ history. The sad irony is that we have to highlight the “Black” part of that history because it has never been recognized or celebrated the way white history has been. The reel’s presence makes the story of Lewes’ history a truer and richer one.
Read the entire Letter to the Editor here.
The Cape Gazette | February 15, 2022
The Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice recently honored Rehoboth Elementary students A’hmaj Thompson and Allen Brown for their demonstration of leadership, improvement, effort and excellence.
Each student received a $20 gift card to Browseabout Books in Rehoboth and a book about Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first Black person to serve in that capacity.
Read the entire Cape Gazette article here.
Lewes Mayor and City Council sets public hearing March 7
Nick Roth | February 18, 2022
The historic menhaden fishing net reel would be allowed to stay on the Lewes Historical Society campus if a proposed ordinance is passed by mayor and city council.
Lewes officials set a public hearing for Monday, March 7, to receive comments on an ordinance to amend city code related to museums and museum exhibitions.
Read the entire Cape Gazette article here. Watch the WBOC-TV news segment here.
The Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice recently honored students Ian Mifflin and Emmanuel Brice for their demonstration of leadership, improvement, effort and excellence.
Read the entire Cape Gazette article here.
CAMP Rehoboth Community Center
It’s Letters release day! In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth, Charlotte King, the Chair of the Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice (SDARJ), graces our first cover for 2022. Check it out here: https://conta.cc/3gsWY4R
The Cape Gazette |LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Sara Ford
January 28, 2022
As we move into Black History Month, we have the opportunity not only to learn about and to honor the stories, the lives, the accomplishments, the discoveries, the grit and strength of Black people, but also the responsibility to ask why should Black History be relegated to only a month, when, in fact, Black history is American history, as central to the story of our nation as is white history?
In the February edition of Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice’s “Black Voices,” Hanifah Ouro-Sama speaks most eloquently to this point. She writes: “I was expected to learn about George Washington during history class; expected to interpret the works of Edgar Allen Poe during English class; and expected to study the findings of IsaacNewton during science class. The same attention, however, was never given to Black political scholars like W.E.B. Du Bois, Black authors like Alice Walker, or Black scientists like George Washington Carver. It seemed as though our curriculum set aside teaching the contributions about Black people until February rolled around.”
Read the entire Letter to the Editor here.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
A tribute to Aimee Wiest
Mary Boyd
The Cape Gazette |January 18, 2022
The tributes will surely pour in for Aimee Wiest, and many will emphasize certain causes for which she was associated. The aspect of her character and personality most important, however, was her tolerance.
Aimee was not a virtue signaler. She did not object if others were, but she herself did not feel the necessity of requiring certain political views of others either by her demeanor, her body language or her comments.
Always open to learning, she saw merit in expanding her horizons rather than solidifying fixed positions. She did not look to be validated; she looked to learn new ways of looking at “old” issues. These are the characteristics of an excellent teacher.
An excellent teacher does not steer students to a particular point of view; an excellent teacher introduces students to the full range of experience and position, and assists them in how to question it. This skill of critical thinking becomes a lifelong habit and is the gift given to students by those who understand what teaching really is.
Aimee Wiest gave this to all she taught and, in addition, exemplified the noblest attributes to all she knew personally.
Mary Boyd
Lewes
Event Date: Jan 17 2022 – 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Participate in a Virtual Tour and Discussion of Dr. King’s Civil Rights Journey through Selma and Montgomery, Alabama, led by local storyteller, songstress, and tour guide, Ms. Wanda Battle. REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT AT:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtdeisqzsoGdXhLxq08Wk6iIktSaETpeM3
This event is sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Delaware.
