Browsing: Growing the Voices of Our Future

       Since this is all happening, The New Mount Olive Baptist Church, Mount Olive Development Corporation, Alpha Kappa Alpha-Zeta Rho Omega Chapter, Feeding South Florida hosted a food drive for those in the community who were in need of additional community resources.

       Charlotte E. Ray was the first African American female lawyer in the United States. She graduated from Howard University School of Law in 1872. However, Howard University’s Law School discouraged women from enrolling and Ray was forced to apply under the name C.E. Ray to disguise her gender.

       On July 13, 2013, The Black Lives Matter movement officially started when Zimmerman was later acquitted of murdering Martin. November 23, 2012, Jordan Davis was shot at a gas station. African American teenager Jordan Davis, 17, and his three friends had stopped in a gas station parking lot to buy gum and cigarettes.

I must say the food was delicious. After I was finished eating we stopped at a meat store and noticed there was a line because the staff was only letting seven people at a time inside the store. My neighborhood and I are both peaceful and abiding by the rules of social distancing and staying home.

During this time of the COVID-19 pandemic, people are having to find safe ways to stay connected. This is not the time to visit Love Lyons, have playmates, or attend any non-essential activities. So a lot of people are wondering what to do and I have a great suggestion called Zoom.

     In this time you should think about building your relationship with God, family, and even friends. God puts us in precarious predicaments sometimes, but God will never give us something we can’t handle.

     Because of the coronavirus (Covid-19), my sister and I, and kids around the world are learning at home. It feels weird not being able to socialize in person with my friends and having to spend our school day mostly on the computer.

        Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease. The disease causes respiratory illness with symptoms such as a cough, fever and difficulty breathing.

This is me, eighth grader, Samara Rawls working from home due to the closure of my school to protect students and staff from getting the coronavirus.