Friday, May 06, 2011

Jersey City Girls Talk Back on Monday, May 9, 2011

JERSEY CITY GIRLS!
LET THE COMMUNITY KNOW WHO YOU ARE,
WHAT YOU HAVE ACHIEVED,
WHAT CHALLENGES YOU HAVE OVERCOME,
AND HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT BEING LABELED “THE COMMUNITY’S WORST ENEMY”
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2011/04/jersey_city_schools_chief_says.html

The Community's Worst Enemy?
Jersey City Girls Talk Back!
Monday, May 9th , 2011
6pm-8pm
Gothic Lounge ( Hepburn 202)
New Jersey City University


2039 Kennedy Boulevard


Jersey City, NJ 07305


http://www.njcu.edu/i2e/visit/directions.asp

A forum facilitated by: Dr. Jacqueline Ellis, Dr. Ann Wallace, and Dr. Antoinette Ellis-Williams
Featuring: Patricia Bombelyn, Lawyer and social activist; Nathaniel Briggs, Vice-President, New Jersey NAACP; Barbara Milton, Ph.D., LCSW, author of “Our Pride and Joy: Stories about Hudson County Teens” blog.

Sponsored by the Black Alumni, Administrators, Faculty, Staff and Students Organization, the Lee Hagan Africana Studies Center, Women’s and Gender Studies.



AND
Tell our Young Women Stories of Those Female Teens Who Have Proceeded Them:

Melba Patillo Beals
Warriors Don’t Cry: a searing memoir of the battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High
Juv. 371.97 .B366w 2002

Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice
Juv. 323.0The Community's Worst Enemy?
Jersey City Girls Talk Back!

Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice
Juv. 323.092 .H789c




Freedom riders : 1961 and the struggle for racial justice
E185.61 .A69 2006

Defying the odds : triumphant Black women of Newark
F144 .N653 K85 2005


Learn What Can Be Done

Urban girls revisited : building strengths HV1431 .U734 2007
Beyond appearance : a new look at adolescent girls F144 .N653 K85 2005
Coming into her own : educational success in girls and women LC1503 .C65 1999
Stand by Me: the risks and rewards of mentoring today’s youth HV 1431.R48 2002

Watch


The souls of Black girls: a documentary film V3088






Monday, May 9th, 2011 at 6pm (H202, NJCU ) Stand Up for our Young Women as they Speak Up for Themselves!



For more information call: Dr. Jacqueline Ellis, (201) 200 3170 or Dr. Ann Wallace, (201) 200 2015

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