Artists of all abilities and backgrounds will take center stage on Friday at Molloy University’s Madison Theatre for the fifth annual Unity Through Diversity event, an evening dedicated to …
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By Daniel Offner
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4/25/24
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The Rebecca Center for Music Therapy at Molloy University hosted its fourth annual Unity through Diversity event on Friday, May 5 at The Madison Theatre.
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By Daniel Offner
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5/14/23
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New York has lost Oyster Bay. Well, more accurately, the state has lost 300,000 people — the town’s population — in just a single year.
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1/19/23
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During a contentious Rockville Centre Board of Education meeting last Thursday, residents were informed about the timeline of the search for a new superintendent headed up by School Leadership LLC representatives. The board adopted the specifications recommended by School Leadership based on community feedback from forums, focus groups and questionnaires.
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By Tom Carrozza
tcarrozza@liherald.com
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12/16/21
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I recently joined five Long Island high school students for a visit to the Joseph Lloyd Manor in Lloyd Harbor, the 18th-century site where many enslaved people of African descent lived.
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By Elaine Gross
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11/18/21
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As a stay-at-home mother in 2006, Shanequa Levin, of Huntington Station, was feeling stir-crazy.
She had two children — ages 4 and 8 at the time — and had just moved to the town in …
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By Briana Bonfiglio
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2/27/20
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February, known nationally as Black History Month, is an appropriate time to work toward closing the opportunity gap for people of color.
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2/7/20
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February marks another year of Black History Month, and it’s important for us to take note of how far America has come since black slaves were first brought to the country some 400 years ago.
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1/31/20
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Part three in a series.
The New York State Education Department launched a new statewide curriculum in May intended to root out implicit bias and racism in all its forms in the schools while affirming students’ “racial, linguistic and cultural identities.”
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By Jeff Bessen and Briana Bonfiglio
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10/17/19
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Ninety-two percent of Long Island public-school teachers are white. In nearly two-thirds of Long Island schools, there are no black teachers. In more than two-fifths of them, there are no Latino teachers. And most children grow up in segregated communities that divide along school district lines.
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By Jeff Bessen
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10/10/19
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