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  • 29 Days: The Grammy Awards

    29 Days: The Grammy Awards

    Diana Ross (center) and The Supremes/Photo credit: tvland.com/photogallery

  • Preparing for your IEP on Tuesday

    Advocates for Special Kids, the Special Education PTO at Lawrence District, will present a program on education planning for special needs children from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday in the library of Lawrence Middle School, 2455 Princeton Pike. For more information, visit www.asknj.org.

  • 29 Days: Marian Anderson

    29 Days: Marian Anderson

    Marian Anderson/Photo credit: junior.britannica.com

  • 29 Days: Black History Firsts, Part III

    29 Days: Black History Firsts, Part III

    Director John Singleton wrote "Boyz N the Hood" while attending the University of Southern Calfornia. He became the youngest person and first African American to earn an Academy Award nomination for Best Director.

  • 29 Days: Ralph Abernathy

    29 Days: Ralph Abernathy

    “I don’t know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.” —Ralph Abernathy, pastor and civil rights leaders, (1926-1990) Source: www.learningtogive.com

  • 29 Days: Marian Anderson

    29 Days: Marian Anderson

    “Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman."  "You lose a lot of time, hating people.”  "None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath." —Marian Anderson, singer, (1897-1993) Source: www.learningtogive.com

  • 29 Days: Henry Louis Gates Jr.

    29 Days: Henry Louis Gates Jr.

    "Humanism starts not with identity but with the ability to identify with others. It asks what we have in common with others while acknowledging the internal diversity among ourselves. It is about the priority of a shared humanity.” —Henry Louis Gates Jr., scholar and director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African…

  • 29 Days: Ralph Abernathy

    29 Days: Ralph Abernathy

    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Rev. Fred Shuttleworth and the Rev. Ralph Abernathy/Photo credit: gospeltimes.org

  • Week-long play project focuses students on collaboration

    By Mary Ellen Zangara Special Writer    After only one week of rehearsals, Roosevelt School students performed “The Golden Goose” Friday night.    The play was performed at the school as part of the school’s theater week, and was made possible by a grant from the Manville Municipal Alliance, a community volunteer group of parents, educators, police,…