Category: Education

Joseph Littles-NGUZO SABA Charter School (JL-NSCS) is the only African-centered public school in the State of Florida. The school received its charter in December, 1998 and began operating on January 20, 1999 in temporary space donated by the Urban League of Palm Beach County.

When I was a child growing up in the Washington Courts projects in Utica, New York, all the stores that served our neighborhood were owned and operated by Jews. We often played with Jewish children when we shopped at their parents’ stores after school…