Important: "A Girl Like Me"

To highlight our "Children's Issue", we strongly urge new parents to watch this short film. This 8 minute documentary entitled "A Girl Like Me" recreates the “doll test” initially conducted by Dr. Kenneth Clark, which was used in the historic desegregation case, Brown vs. Board of Education. In the film, the new test yields startling results and raises the continuing issue of self-esteem in our community among our children. If accurate, we still have a long way to go.

"First Ledger" urges our readers to take the time to watch this (see link below), judge for yourselves and renew the dialogue.

video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1091431409617440489

Also, I think in an age where "we" are often seen as superficial and non-intellectual on medium like BET and MTV, this young Black girl who directed this film, Kiri Davis, needs to be recognized and saluted. Thank you to our Baltimore correspondent R. Williams for bringing this to our attention.

Blair Smith
Publisher
First Ledger