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Vol. 27 No. 31
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Empowering girls of color Black educators promote literacy through five-week book club given journals, for taking notes, and encouraged to discuss how they view beauty. They also cut When the coronavirus lock- photos out of magazines repredown went into effect in March, senting how they viewed themMoms Who Care, a Nassau selves. Many chose images of County nonprofit, sought to find Black women with natural hair. new ways to carry out its mis“I think that shows how much sion, to promote and representation matempower minority ters,” said Deborah communities in litJean, a co-founder of eracy, mental health Moms Who Care. “It awareness and enviwas so nice to see ronmental preservahow everyone saw t i o n . T h e g ro u p themselves, and it began a five-week was very heartfelt.” m o t h e r- d a u g h t e r Sabine Jean-G, book club at Harold another co-founder, J. Walker Memorial said she was Park, in Lakeview, impressed by the on July 18. openness of the “We wanted to AiShA young girls in the have that bonding book club. “It was t i m e t o g e t h e r DemoSTheNeS great to see how between mothers Co-founder, comfortable they and daughters, and Moms Who Care were in their own have great conversaskin,” Jean-G said, tions about positive “and to hear them self-image for our Black and share some of the same thoughts brown daughters,” said Aisha and experiences.” Demosthenes, one of Moms Who The three founders of Moms Cares’ founders. Who Care are all Black educaThe club is reading the book tors who are originally from “The Skin I’m In,” by Sharon Haiti. They had worked together Flake, which addresses colorism for the past three years as board — discrimination based on skin m e m b e r s o f C o m m u n i t y color — self-identity and selfworth. The participants were Continued on page 4
By NAkeem GrANT ngrant@liherald.com
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Courtesy Peter Mura
mAlVerNe AmeriCAN leGioN Post 44 volunteer Peter Mura, 16, donated food items to first responders at the Javits Center at the height of the pandemic.
A volunteer who found a need Teen’s service project supports first responders By NAkeem GrANT ngrant@liherald.com
When Malverne American Legion Post 44 volunteer Peter Mura, 16, found out in March that he had been selected as the post’s delegate to the annual American Legion Boys State summer program, he was elated. Mura’s excitement was short lived, however, because the program was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. So he decided to make the
most of his time at home by starting a service project to support members of the U.S. military. “I just felt like there was something that I could do to help people in need,” Mura said. He decided to support an Army medical unit from Massachusetts that was stationed at the Javits Center in Manhattan to help Covid-19 patients. Mura learned about the group from his uncle Michael Douglas, a nurse in the unit. The unit was sta-
tioned at Javits in April and May, so Mura assembled goody bags and handed them out every Sunday morning. He delivered potted flowers to mothers in the unit on Mother’s Day. “I’m glad that not only was I able to help family, but I also helped strangers out as well,” he said. “I knew they were away from their families, so I wanted them to know how appreciated they are. With Continued on page 5
e just felt like we should start promoting reading at home again.