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SDARJ awards Beacon Middle School students
Nazere Jefferson and Arianna Snead earn school honors
May 4, 2021
Beacon Middle eighth-graders Nazere Jefferson and Arianna Snead were recognized in April 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 Cape Gazette article here.
Being Visible: Students for Change
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.
You can download the entire article here.
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SDARJ awards Cape High students
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.
Read the entire Cape Gazette article here.
Eradicating poverty hurts the economy. Really?
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.
To read the entire Letter to the Editor click here.
SDARJ Awards Rehoboth Elementary School students
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.
Application deadline extended for the 2021 Charlotte King Scholarship Program
Important update about the 2021 Charlotte King Scholarship Program. We have extended the application deadline to May 3rd. Click to view the eligibility and criteria information. Download the application.
Civic Action Alert
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.
SDARJ Black Poetry video
If you missed it, or just want to view it again, the SDARJ Town Hall meeting: Black Poetry is now available for viewing on the SDARJ YouTube channel at: https://youtu.be/eAp_sU2e1eE. PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO COPYRIGHT RESTRICTIONS, THIS VERSION DOES NOT INCLUDE “I CAN’T BREATHE” BY H.E.R. You can view the official version of H.E.R.’s “I Can’t Breathe” at https://youtu.be/E-1Bf_XWaPE