...UIC professors decided to expand the concept into an after-school program, with the help of the national math literacy group, The Young People's Project.
Bob Moses is one of the leading civil rights icons from the 1960s. He was the former field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC. The New York Times once wrote, “In Mississippi, Bob Moses was the equivalent of Martin Luther King.” Moses is also the founder of the Algebra Project, a foundation devoted to improving minority education in math. The author, poet and activist Alice Walker won the 1983 Pulitzer for her book The Color Purple. She has written many other bestselling books, including In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens and Possessing the Secret of Joy.
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/1/20/pulitzer_prize_winning_writer_alice_waters#
http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?id=3170
I am employed to empower youth. I’m not sure there’s anything more fulfilling than this.
