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STOP THE VIOLENCE Billboard Campaign

The Institute for Positive Living (IPL) has launched a billboard campaign to “STOP THE VIOLENCE.”  Your tax-deductible contribution will help us strategically place 100 billboards in our most distressed communities during Summer 2012.

In Chicago, nearly 700 children were hit by gunfire last year, an average of almost two per day. Sixty-six of these children were killed. That number is increasing this year.

The IPL “STOP THE VIOLENCE” Billboard Campaign is the first step in a series of activities to bring awareness and action to eliminate violence. “By adopting a billboard with your donation, you are not only helping to ensure the continuation of IPL’s important safe haven programs, but you also become an integral part of our effort to raise Stop the Violence awareness in our community.”

For more information, call The Rev. Marrice Coverson, Executive Director, Institute for Positive Living, Phone: 773-924-9802 or Click Here For More Information.
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What We're Reading Now!


Zora and Me
by Victoria Bond
and T.R. Simon

We are very excited about the book our Open Book participants are reading this Spring. Zora and Me by Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon is inspired by the early life of Zora Neale Hurston.  Zora Neale Hurston is considered one of the pre-eminent writers of twentieth-century African-American literature. Hurston was closely associated with the Harlem Renaissance and has influenced such writers as Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Gayle Jones, Alice Walker, and Toni Cade Bambara.

Our Open Book students from Mayo Elementary, Scott Joplin Elementary, Schmid Elementary School, University of Chicago-Donoghue, Wentworth Gardens and Williams Prep Academy Middle School are getting a chance to meet and get to know the famous author Zora Neale Hurston through Zora and Me, a novel set in Eatonville, Florida that imagines Zora Neale Hurston's life from about fourth to sixth grade.
Zora and Me has garnered many awards including Booklist Top 10 Historical Fiction for Youth, Notable Books for a Global Society and the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent. Zora and Me is also the only book to be endorsed by the Zora Neal Hurston Trust that was not authored by Hurston herself.

For more about Zora and Me, Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon, and Zora Neal Hurston, click on the link below. Information includes links to YouTube videos and a Zora and Me Discussion Guide.

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