As a senior at Mepham High School in Bellmore, I’m excited that ERASE Racism has launched a Long Island-wide public discussion called “How Do We Build a Just Long Island?”
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By Gabriela Daza
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2/8/19
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Black History Month celebration
The Lakeview Public Library will host a special program to celebrate Black History Month on Saturday, Feb. 9, from 12:30 to 3 p.m. Held in conjunction with the …
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2/7/19
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February is Black History Month, and African-American history is very much a story of migration. Between 1916 and 1970, 6 million black people left behind the shackles of the rural South and its …
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1/31/19
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Perhaps no show on American television addresses the perilous times in which we find ourselves more vividly than ABC’s “Black-ish,” which . . .
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2/1/18
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We were supposed to have been healed by now, right? With the first African-American president finally elected not once but twice, the nation was supposed to be . . .
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2/2/17
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Malverne High School hosted its first Black History Month celebration, with plenty of live entertainment and memorable speeches, on Feb. 27 in the high school gymnasium.
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3/4/14
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It is an ignominious history that Long Islanders don’t like to remember or even recognize. For nearly 200 years, from the early 1600s to the early 1800s, Long Islanders owned slaves.
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2/20/14
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The Nassau County Guardians and Legislator Robert Troiano (D-Westbury) partnered with the Lakeview Public Library to celebrate black history last Saturday. The Voices of Virtue, Lady Laura & Dat …
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2/15/12
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Stella Crawford’s fourth-grade class at Malverne’s Davison Avenue Intermediate School read a selection from their English/Language Arts text book titled “Me & Uncle …
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2/8/12
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Imagine a Western Civilization textbook without chapters on ancient Egypt or the Roman Empire. Imagine a World History reading list that included no books on China.
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2/2/12
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