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Washington Hospital is hosting a Medical Explorer Healthcare Career Day on Saturday, March 17th. Only 24 spots have been allotted for Logan students. To sign up, see Mrs. Hart in the Career Center by Tuesday, February 21st. Spots will be given to students on a first come, first served basis.

Congratulations to the Varsity Girls Soccer for winning league undefeated for the second year in a row. Way to go, Girls!!!

By Yari Nieves-Rivera, Courier Staff Writer

In this dystopian novel, Divergent by Veronica Roth, the population of the city of Chicago is split into five factions. They all stand for the five human morals-- Dauntless (the Courageous), Abnegation (the Selfless), Candor ( the Honest), Amity (the Peaceful), and Euridite (the Intelligent). The novel begins in the point of view of Beatrice, a member of the Abnegation, going to take a test that will change the rest of her life. At the age of sixteen, citizens of Chicago are sent to take a ‘simulation test’ where they are given a choice--whether to stay in their faction, or move on to another one. Beatrice is given a choice like no other--whether to stay or to go to another faction and betray her family.

The novel bases itself around the life of this young girl, as she tries to overcome the limits that had been set to her before. She had been taught from a very young age to be selfless, to give to others instead of herself, and to not think about her own needs. Beatrice from the beginning knew that she didn’t belong in her faction, and had waited for the day of her test where they would tell her where she truly belongs. Sadly, it only makes her decision worse. With more options than the other people, she has to outweigh the consequences--to either leave her family, or move on to where she belongs--the Dauntless.

Adapted from the African-American Registry:
Fay Jackson (February 15, 1902-1979) was an African-American journalist and movie publicist.

Jackson was born in Dallas, Texas, as the youngest of three children to Charles T. and Lulu Beatrice Jackson. Her father was a concrete mason and chemical scientist and her mother a seamstress and actress. At the age of 16, her family moved to Los Angeles. In 1922, Jackson graduated from Los Angeles Polytechnic High School, attended USC, majored in journalism and philosophy and was the first president of the Epsilon Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta.


Read "Fay M. Jackson and the Color Line: The First African American Foreign Correspondent for the Associated Negro Press" by Lae’l Hughes-Watkins, M.A, free from the Journal of Pan-African Studies.

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