As people around the country honor the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., one Atlantan will do so by launching a nonprofit organization focused on improving literacy.
A Big Problem
Seven-year-old Selah Thompson is in first grade at Atlanta’s Parkside Elementary School. She loves school and reading. She’s starting a nonprofit called The Empowered Readers Literacy Project with the help of her parents. Selah’s mother, Nicole Thompson, said the idea came about after Selah came home from her first day of Kindergarten last year looking sad.
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