Racial justice group creates workshops for high schoolers

In the wake of the hate crime against Lewes leaders of the Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice, the Nov. 21 Hate Has No Home Here webinar was an inspiring event that enjoined to people work proactively to dispel the ignorance and fear that drive acts of racism and homophobia.

The SDARJ Youth Education Group has been working to educate local high school students. Its team members have put together four 90-minute, interactive Zoom workshops to be offered in the spring on these topics: Cultural Competence, Antiracism, History of Slavery in Delaware, and Great Contributions to the American Fabric by African Americans.

The workshops will make use of a Google Classroom and enable students not only to gain new knowledge but also to share their own life experiences as all work together to develop a body of materials to be stored and accessed by participants.

Students will receive formal acknowledgement from SDARJ for each module they complete, an item for their resumes that will prove valuable in college, career and scholarship applications. Students who complete all four modules will receive a formal certificate and an SDARJ flash drive for storing their virtual materials going forward.

The initiative is titled Becoming Visible: Students for Change. To access, scroll down the main SDARJ webpage or go to sdarj.org/students-for-change/.