City to Celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. with “One Voice” Panel Discussion

PALMDALE – The City of Palmdale will host a special panel discussion
event entitled “One Voice: Succeeding and Overcoming Obstacles in the
Face of Stereotyping and Discrimination” on Saturday, Jan. 19 from 1 to
2:30 pm at the Palmdale Playhouse, 38334 10th St. E. in Palmdale.

The event is free and is designed especially for teens and their parents.
Dr. Barbara Young, CEO of Young Enterprises, will serve as the
moderator for the panel discussion. The four panelists will include
businesswoman Helen Acosta, attorney Virgil Roberts, retired aerospace
worker and war veteran Lawrence Duplechan and school board member Ira
Simonds.

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Tags: Attitudes, Community, Discrimination, Education, Stereotypes by Darren Parker
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Highland High students pledge unity

Teens agree to renounce all kinds of discrimination

This story appeared in the Antelope Valley Press on Saturday, November 3, 2007.

By TITUS GEE
Valley Press Staff Writer

PALMDALE – Students at Highland High School declared their unity Friday by signing a pledge renouncing all kinds of discrimination and by adding their names to the links of a paper chain.

“It’s basically, in kind of a metaphorical way, unifying everybody,” said Grace Malcolm , 14, a sophomore member of Highland’s Tolerance Club who spent part of her lunch break collecting names for the paper chain.

“We’re trying to get all the teachers, all the students, everybody,” Malcolm said.

By end of the “Unity Day” event, the chain of names would be about 700 feet long, organizers said.

The tolerance club also set up table displays in the school commons highlighting messages of cooperation and unification.

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Tags: Discrimination, Education by Michele Chavez
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