A senior at Villa Maria Academy, Giana “Gigi” Hawkins is Co-President of the school’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee, a String Ensemble and Orchestra participant (plays the cello and piano), the school’s Tri-M International Honor Society Communications Director and a Student Council Homeroom Representative.
RAINBOW LAKE Award-winning young adult horror writer Andrea L. Rogers will be in residence on Jones Pond at Adirondack Swim and Trip Camp in Rainbow Lake t
Published date: 4 March 2021 09:17 UTC | Last update: 4 weeks ago
In my home, reading is part of our culture. I gather with my children most evenings to spend time quietly reading together, as an answer to the virtual schooling, video gaming, football watching daytime activities.
I’ve always been proud that my children love books, but four years ago, I encountered a small crisis: my daughter was frustrated.
She told me she wished she had books that featured an Arab girl as the main character. I promptly handed her Naomi Shihab Nye’s 1999 novel,
Habibi, which is about a Palestinian American girl, living in St Louis, who experiences a culture shock when her father decides to move the family back to Palestine.
not just about the psychological benefits of feeling good about being part of a civic culture that is euro centric in its core and prides who you are. you have children. take your children to see movies, and with the exception of annie, it s like oh, my god everything about the world re-enforces that you have propryty, you belong. walter dean meyers for example, before he died last year pointed out only 92 of 3200 children s books featured african-american protagonists. so there s a lot to be said about the way in which the color lines still re-enforces who counts in this country, and therefore, even without conspiracy even without being insidious or part of something, somehow you see those people as challenging what the nation stands for. what bill de blasio did in that press conference wasn t just about re-enforcing the experience of his child, which is echoed by black officers on the nypd but also he vounlded