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The Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice (SDARJ) hosted Delaware historian and lecturer  Sylvester Woolford at the October Town Hall Meeting.  Woolford’s presentation “The Journey from Shirley Bulah to Rudy Bridges” traced the history of the “colored schools” that Pierre DuPont built when the state of Delaware did not provide education for black children.  Between 1920 and 1930 DuPont built 85 schools, called the “Great Experiment,” intending to shrink the education gap between blacks and […]

SDARJ Education/Scholarship Committee members and friends ready their presentation of “The Word:  A Feast of African-American Creativity” for the Rotary Club of Milford, DE on September 9 at The Rookery North in Milford.  “The Word” celebrates three centuries of poetry and prose by African American artists in a multimedia presentation of spoken word, music, video, and portraiture.  Pictured, […]

The Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice (SDARJ)  presented “The Immigration Crisis: Stories from the Front Line” at the September 10 Town Hall Meeting. A panel of professionals shared their experiences and described some of the challenges that immigrants face in our local communities. Lending the perspective of a community organizer, Dalissy Washington, Licensed Clinical […]

“Bridging the Gap Between Law Enforcement and the Community” was the focus of the Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice’s Town Hall meeting on Tuesday, June 11, 2019. The Town Hall, which was held at the Trinity Faith Center on New Road in Lewes, was sponsored by the Delaware Chapter of the National Organization of […]

The Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice partnered with Women’s March Sussex and the Seaside Jewish Community to present a second Town Hall on racism and anti-Semitism.  The Town Hall was held on Thursday, June 6th at the Unitarian Universalists of Southern Delaware Church in Lewes. The panelist, Robin Burstein, Senior Associate Regional Director of […]

State Attorney General Kathleen Jennings was the guest speaker at the Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice’s May Town Hall meeting. Attorney General Jennings’ presentation “Revisions of the Delaware Criminal Code” focused on current legislative efforts to create fairer and more equitable criminal justice and prison systems in Delaware.  Proposed reforms aim at decreasing the […]

Many of us think we know a lot about this growing challenge, but actually we have little idea of the depth and breadth of the problem and how many people are just one check away from losing their permanent housing. The Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice brought together a panel of housing experts for […]