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directed at her. Before she joined, “I really was not myself — I honestly was Joan Mesy, a senior at San- a completely different person,” ford H. Calhoun High School, Mesy said. “When I joined IBC, has experienced racial prejudice all that changed with the help of firsthand. As a freshman, she the officers and Ms. G. They realmentally struggled in the face of ly coached me, and it took hours harassment by her and hours in room peers, and as one 235 — and boxes of of the few Black tissues — to get me students in the to where I’m at school at the time, now.” she had few places Mesy’s hope to turn. now, she said, is “I was so angry. that no other stuI was so upset, but dents experience it was like I never what she did — and really understood if they do, they why,” Mesy said, now have a place to explaining that share their stories. persistent verbal Along with fellow harassment left her senior Eden Goulddepressed and isoAnderson, Mesy lated, with no started the Racial B l a ck p e e r s o r JOAN MESy Equity Club, a platteachers to relate form for all stuFounder, to. dents to discuss The next year, Calhoun Racial matters of racial s h e j o i n e d t h e Equity Club injustice. International “It’s a safe place B u d dy C l u b, a t h a t ’s m a d e t o group for Calhoun’s internation- make you feel unsafe,” Mesy al students to share their cul- said. “We want to get kids tures, led by English as a New exposed to talking about things Language teacher Heather Glick. they normally don’t, think about In the club, she learned to cope with and understand the racism Continued on page 7
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let the voting begin Thousands stood in line to vote at the North Merrick Public Library last weekend, in the first two days of early voting in New York, ahead of next Tuesday’s election. Story, more photos, Page 4.
Merokean’s transplant journey inspires a documentary By AlySSA SEIDMAN aseidman@liherald.com
A Merokean’s long-fought journey with mast cell disease has been documented on filmed. “Second Chance,” a documentary by Rochester-based filmmaker Matthew White, chronicles the weeks leading up to Tara Notrica’s bone marrow transplant in June 2018, and features the music her daughter wrote to help her overcome the challeng-
es along the way. The Herald first met Notrica and her daughter, Samantha Horowitz, in 2017. Samantha, who was 13 at the time, had cowrote a ballad with her vocal coach, former “American Idol” contestant Robbie Rosen, dedicated to her mother. The song, “Brave the Storm,” was written to show Notrica that she wasn’t facing her illness alone, Samantha said. In “Second Chance,” Saman-
tha’s music and lyrics act as the soundtrack to Notrica’s journey; “Brave the Storm” is one of several original songs featured in the documentary. “All throughout my life, music has been a very big part of who I am,” said Samantha, a Calhoun High School student. “The songs show how we coped with whatever obstacles were thrown our way. Every single lyric has a speContinued on page 3
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veryone in the community is talking about this. It was almost like even if you didn’t want to open your eyes to it, you were forced to.