On Thursday, April 4, it was National School Librarian Day and U.S. Deputy Secretary Cindy Marten visited Susan Miller Dorsey High School for a roundtable discussion on the importance of public school libraries, librarians, and literacy.
It’s a cliché that Kymyona Burk heard a little too often: “Thank God for Mississippi.” As the state’s literacy director, she knew politicians in other states would say it when their reading test scores were down — because at least they weren’t ranked as low as Mississippi. Or Louisiana. Or Alabama.
MIA brought professionals from multiple sectors to celebrate reading at Danny J. Bakewell Sr. Primary Center and Marcus Garvey School.
Authors and community leaders came to support the students by reading their own books and their favorite Dr. Seuss books.
South L.A. students displayed their dramatic skills during a reading competition sponsored by El Nido Family Centers and United Voices of Literacy on Dec. 14.
Parents, students, friends, volunteers, school personnel, NCNW officers and members attended the Awards Celebration
“…there is this misguided group of Afrodescendants, who are throwing shade at those who are not ‘American descendants of slaves’ ADOS. Their shade is an odd version of the “am I Black enough for you” game that some folks ran against President Barack Obama, and are now running against Presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Corey Booker.”
The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation (LADF) announced 2018 cumulative grant donations of over $1.6 million to 70 local nonprofit organizations, which impacted over 600,000 underserved youth in some of the most challenged neighborhoods of Los Angeles.
While students indulged in a complimentary pizza party sponsored by Pizza Hut, Gurley read from the book “The Magician’s Hat”
Now-Jan. 25 The Los Angeles Public Library is hosting a Winter Reading Challenge to keep your reading skills current over the winter holidays. Everything is online and uses your information from the Summer Reading Challenge if you participated in that. Go to lapl/winter for more information or call the Hyde Park Branch Library at 323-750-7241 if you need your user name or password from the Summer Reading Challenge. If you accumulate at least 300 points in the program you’ll be eligible to be entered into our branch lottery to win a bag of goodies from LAPL. The Challenge runs from
New York Times best-selling book author Omar Tyree is back in the groove of book publishing with his recent book release “All Access”.