Cape Gazette | May 13, 2021
H.O. Brittingham students De’Naya Hinton and Jazon Jones were recognized in May with the African American/Black Achievement Award from the Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice.
Students were chosen because they demonstrate leadership, improvement, effort and excellence. Read the entire Gape Gazette article here.
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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Being Visible- Students for Change
April 26, 2021
Cape High students and twin sisters Amaya and Aya Daisey were recognized April 15 with the African American/Black Achievement Award from the Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice.
The students were chosen because they demonstrate leadership, improvement, effort and excellence for both their peers and staff, teachers said.
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CAPE GAZETTE – LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Charlotte King |April 19, 2021
Senate Bill 15 already passed by the Delaware Senate, would raise the minimum wage in Delaware from $9.25 per hour to $15 per hour by 2025. Here it is important to note that the bill would gradually increase the minimum wage by just over $1 each year starting next year. Specifically, $10.50 by 2022; $11.75 by 2023; $13.25 by 2024 and $15 by 2025.
Nonpartisan groups have provided detailed analyses describing the benefits of raising the minimum wage for Delaware’s diverse population and for the economy, as well. According to David Cooper, senior analyst at the Economic Policy Institute, with the minimum wage at $15, SB 15 would increase the wages of almost “122,000 Delaware workers or approximately 28 percent of the state’s wage-earning workforce.” Yet, one of Sussex County’s representatives, Ruth Briggs King, 37th District, Sussex County, opposes SB 15 because she believes the bill will hurt business more than help.
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The Cape Gazette | April 15, 2021
Rehoboth Elementary students Serenity Lamb and Elijauh Whaley were recognized March 22 with the African American/Black Achievement Award from the Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice. Read the entire Cape Gazette article here.
Check out the summary of this week’s actions from Network Delaware that can be done in just a few minutes or less. You can download the entire document here.
The Cape Gazette COMMENTARY
Sara Ford – March 30, 2021
The recent murder of eight people, six Asian-American women, one white woman and one white man, was utterly despicable, as was the reason the killer gave that he is a sex addict and saw such women as temptations that he wanted to get out of his way. When asked in an interview if these murders were hate crimes, Keisha Lance Bottoms, mayor of Atlanta, said, “This was targeted at Asian spas. Read the entire Cape Gazette commentary here.
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
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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.
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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.
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