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Press Herald: 12.03.2020
Midcoast
Literacy, a non-profit organization that provides
free literacy tutoring to people of all ages, announces a free, live Readers
Theater performance of two children’s books to be streamed online. The event
will be held one time only on Saturday, Dec. 12, at 7 p.m. It will feature
local professional actors reading “Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse,” by Kevin
Henkes and “Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree,” by Robert Barry.
“We
are thrilled to be trying out a new way to share children’s literature with
families in the towns we serve,” said Don Lader, Midcoast Literacy’s executive
director, in a news release. “Originally, we had planned to launch our
first-ever Readers Theater performance as a live, in-person event. Now, having
made accommodations for the pandemic, we think this online version will be just
as entertaining.”
The Readers Theater production will feature actors performing all the parts in the two books over Zoom. READ MORE ➤➤
WURD Radio: 12.05.2020 by Sojourner Ahebee
CLC @FreeLibrary @Center4Literacy
“I
was 16-years-old when I left North Carolina,” recalled the 75-year-old
Philadelphia resident.
Hyden
is one of the six million African Americans who left the rural south between
1916 and 1970 in the advent of the Great Migration.
Though
the 19th Amendment granted Black women in the United States the right to vote,
voter disenfranchisement in the South persisted into the late 60s. It was
common for white election officials in the south to tell Black voters they got
the election day or polling location wrong.
And Hyden is from the same rural south that instituted literacy tests as
a way to disenfranchise Black voters from casting their ballots.
That
means theoretically, by law, Hyden would have been eligible to vote in North
Carolina when she turned 18. When she
moved to Philadelphia and could take part in the next Presidential Election,
she was free of the many voter intimidation tactics that characterized the
south.
She’s
never missed an election since then, even though she’s one of the 550,000 adults
in the city who struggle to read.
And the obstacles to voting when you have low-literacy skills abound. LISTEN 03.29
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Journal Star: 12.08.2020 by Cindy Lange-Kubick
Friday
night was graduation night for the entrepreneurs.
The
six women made up the first class at The
Refinery, a program designed to give immigrant and
refugee women the opportunity to achieve economic independence and social
capital.
A
10-week program that offered business education and professional mentorships —
by women, for women.
The
virtual ceremony, courtesy of COVID-19, lasted 15 minutes.
Their mentors’ faces appeared in the video, too, and so did the businesswomen who taught them, and Kelly Ross, who dreamed up the nonprofit, created a program and made it happen.
She started the nonprofit in September and launched its first program — The Refinery — the day after Labor Day. She plans to have three more classes in 2021.
The idea was born out of work with refugee and immigrant women and a need that she saw going unfilled, particularly for women who were still learning English. READ MORE ➤➤
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