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Marvel Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur: One Girl Can Make A Difference (Rehoboth Beach, Aug. 19, 2023)

One Girl can make a difference by Michelle Meadows - Marvel Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur comes to Rehoboth Beach in August 2023

August 19, 2023 at 4:00 pm Save the Date! Interpreters provided. Come and celebrate the release of Michelle Meadow’s forthcoming book, “Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur: One Girl Can Make a Difference”, published by Marvel Press/Disney Books.

When: Saturday, August 19 at 4:00 p.m.

Where: Rehoboth Elementary School – 500 Stockley Street, Rehoboth Beach, DE

What: Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur Book Reading & Signing Event with author Michelle Meadows

All ages are welcome! Books will be available for purchase at the event. Bring your kids and grandkids.

Book description: Moon Girl is making history as the first Black female lead character in a Marvel television show! Lunella Lafayette is a brilliant 13-year-old girl who transforms into a Marvel Super Hero named Moon Girl. She is a scientist, engineer, and inventor – and the guardian of a 10-ton red dinosaur that lives in her secret lab.

The book is a novelization based on the animated television series, Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, airing on the Disney Channel and streaming on Disney+.

– Courtesy of DDSC and DODHH.

 

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ASL Classes (Salisbury, MD – Sept/Oct 2023)

ASL Level 1 classes, Sept 18-Oct 18, 2023. Cost - $150. Mon and Wed, 6p-8p in Salisbury, MD. More info, call 410-742-5052 or see link below.ASL Class Registration Form for DILA, Fall 2023 version. See link below for more info.
Fall American Sign Language (ASL) Level 1 classes have been scheduled. Classes will be held for 5 weeks on Mondays & Wednesdays starting September 18-October 18 from 6-8pm at DILA, 806 Snow Hill Rd, Salisbury, MD. Registration is limited to 25.  More info and class registration below or call 410-742-5052.
 

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At last, a diploma for Black deaf students who set historic precedent

Janice Boyd Ruffin tears up after accepting a diploma on Saturday during a ceremony at Gallaudet University honoring students who attended a segregated school on the university's campus in the 1950s. (Minh Connors/The Washington Post)
Janice Boyd Ruffin tears up after accepting a diploma on Saturday during a ceremony at Gallaudet University honoring students who attended a segregated school on the university’s campus in the 1950s. (Minh Connors/The Washington Post)

Robbie D. Cheatham knew her worth. She also knew other people didn’t always see it.

“She had a lot of things that happened to her in life, really hard, hard stuff, because of being deaf, because of being Black, because of being a woman,” Cheatham’s daughter Krissi Spence told me. “She was so strong mentally and emotionally because she had to be. She had to fight.”

She had to fight in ways that Spence only fully realized after her mom’s death in December at the age of 86.

It was then that she learned Cheatham was part of a group of Black deaf students who weren’t allowed to attend the only school for deaf children in Washington, the city where they lived, until their families filed a class-action lawsuit in 1952. Then, despite a court victory, they weren’t treated the same as the White students who attended kindergarten through 12th grade at the Kendall School on Gallaudet’s campus. Black students were enrolled in the Kendall School Division II for Negroes. They were placed in a separate classroom with separate teachers, and when it came time for them to graduate, unlike their White peers, they weren’t given diplomas.

Read on at https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/07/22/deaf-black-gallaudet-diploma.

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