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THE LITTLE HAWK Vol. 75

Friday, February 16th, 2018

Issue 4

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CHS Wins Black History Game Show By Olivia Lusala and Theo Prineas Editors

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ABOVE: Students and community members participate in the Women’s March on January 20th PHOTOS BY LINDY RUBLAITUS

Marching for an Equal Vote Fueled by the #MeToo movement, hundreds of protesters marched in downtown Iowa City on the anniversary of the Women’s March By Lindy Rublaitus Reporter

sexual assault allegations against elected officials. Women around the world participated in voter registrations in till yearning for change, commu- hopes to create a healthier place where nity members joined together for women can be commonly found in the one-year anniversary of the congress. Arm in arm, women stood together Iowa City Women’s March on January 20th, 2018–one of hundreds hap- to push their opinions into office, parpening around the US. This year, the ents marched with their children as goals were to get women involved with good examples, LGBTQ+ community voting by providing resources where members supported the diverse group of Iowa City, and students cheered to they could register to prove that they are the vote in Johnson County during the event and “My job as a citizen next powerful force that to patronize businesses is to fight for those will change society. Together they all marched downtown that have who are unable six blocks chanting and committed to the $10.10 to fight or can’t holding up homemade minimum wage. After the march, participants express themselves signs speaking their minds on current politiwere encouraged to dine or just need cal issues. at restaurants that recog“I feel like as a white nize the minimum wage someone to fight women in the United efforts. alongside them.” States I have a lot of The main goal of privilege. I think with these marches, according to the official WomJILLIAN BOLTON my platform my job as en’s March website, is SENIOR a citizen is to fight for those who are unable “to harness the political to fight or can’t express power of diverse women themselves or just need and their communities to create transformative social change.” someone to fight alongside them,” JilOrganizing more than 250 marches in lian Bolton ‘18 said. Beth Hollar Gier, one of the several the US and 120 international marches in 34 countries, Women’s March gath- women who helped organize this event, ered in Las Vegas to recognize recent believes that holding this march again

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will strengthen the sense of community in Iowa City because this march is all-inclusive. She hopes that they will be able to reach elected leaders and show them the unity of the community as it returns to the Women’s March. “I hope that this event will remind us of the strength and encouragement that being in a community can provide, [and] of the importance and power of every vote,” said Gier People of all genders, ages, and races showed up to listen to keynote speakers, including Mazahir Salih, a newly elected member of the Iowa City Council. Salih expressed her experience being the first Sudanese-American to hold office in the US in front of hundreds of supporters as they prepared to walk the half-mile march route. “I am a woman, an immigrant, I

am Muslim, and I am American and Iowan…I have been told I am the first Sudanese-American to hold office in the whole United States,” Salih said. “I have been told I’m the first, but I’m not going to be the last.” H ig h - s c ho ol students from around Iowa City walked arm in arm waving homemade signs. Maya Durham ‘19 and Addy Smith ‘18 led the way. Students of all ages were encouraged to come in order to learn what it means to be a strong force in the community. “I think it’s really important that I came to the march today because it’s showing your awareness and that you’re conscious of what is happening in the world,” said Sasha Tyler ‘18, one of the many high school students who chose to march. “It shows that you support people of other races and sexes—women being the most important today.”

wo teams of six sat anxiously, itching to begin, as a panel of judges prepared the next question. In the final round against West High in the Black History Month Game Show, there was no room to blink or lose focus. But West blinked at the last minute, during the speed trivia round, and City High finally won back the title of state champion back after three long years. “I’ve been [participating in the Black History Game Show] since the 7th grade. Honestly, it was an outlet that allowed me to find an identity that I hadn’t been able to connect to before,” Mariam Keita ‘20 said. “I am a first-generation Gambian-American and I never really felt like I had a place in the black community.” The team met every advisory in Frederick Newell’s room, taking a class period to play against each other. Occasionally the team worked with Theodore Roosevelt Education Center or South East Junior High to study, scrimmage, and recruit students for the future. Over the course of a week, the team studied African-American history, including Africa: Salute To The Motherland; Brains, Brawn and Business: African-American Achievers; Dramatic Significance: TV & Cinematic Influences; Innovators and Dreamers: African-American Inventors; and Iowa African-American History and Civil Rights. “We need to take large steps to integrate those stories into our classroom and our day to day curriculum because these aren’t just pages of a textbook, they’re people’s lives,” Keita said. Continued on A11

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