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Local author hopes to inspire POC youth to read with new book series
This was the case for visual artist turned children’s book author Kristen Mann.
“I Really (want to) get the black children excited about seeing themselves on a book”
She told 12 News. Her new series “Legendary Lessons” is a book that surrounds the life of someone very special to her.
“So, my son is Legend Thomas and I wanted to create a book with him as the character just as something special to leave him as a legacy.”
Writing the book isn’t just about her son though. When the pair went searching for a new book at the store or the library, they noticed something was missing from the shelves.
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On Thursday, May 13th at Malcolm X Park in West Philadelphia, members and supporters of the MOVE family held a memorial. At the mic, the speaker held a placard with the names of the 6 adults and 5 children who were murdered by the Philadelphia police
It has been 36 years since the City of Philadelphia dropped a bomb on MOVE, an African liberation organization, murdering 11 people including five children.
It has now come to light that Penn Museum, the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), and Princeton University have, for decades, manhandled the remains of 12-year-old Tree and 14-year-old Delisha Africa in the name of “anthropology,” i.e. colonial scientific study.
The Hamilton Commission, started by seven-time Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton and co-chaired by Royal Academy of Engineering CEO Dr. Hayaatun Sillem, published a comprehensive report Tuesday detailing the systemic barriers to the involvement of Black people in motorsport, and in engineering fields at large.
The 93-page report, titled
Accelerating Change: Improving Representation of Black People in UK Motorsport was the culmination of 10 months of research, amassing large swaths of data across primary and higher education, as well as within Formula 1 itself. It’s interspersed with accounts from Black students and working engineers, detailing firsthand the institutional forces and attitudes that pushed them away from pursuing their careers. And it makes actionable recommendations on how decision makers in motorsport can generate the diversity they so often claim to encourage. You can read it in full here.
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