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By Will Atwater The Autumn of 1982 was turbulent for Warren County, N.C., residents. Then-Gov. Jim Hunt decided to place a toxic waste landfill in the Afton community to house soil laced with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, that had been collected from sites where it was illegally dumped along a several-hundred-mile stretch of state roads. […]
Did you know that the first African-descended individuals who came to Florida arrived as early as the 1500s? The majority were enslaved by Spaniards and involuntarily sailed to Florida as part of exploratory expeditions. It’s at this point that the Tampa Bay History Center’s newest exhibit, “Travails and Triumphs,” begins chronicling the 500-year history of […]
People walk toward the temple at Burning Man near Gerlach, Nev., on the Black Rock Desert on Aug. 31, 2012. A county commission has rescinded a permit an energy company needs to drill exploratory wells for a geothermal project in the Nevada desert near the site of the annual Burning Man counter-culture festival about 100 […]
In this article, celebrating Black History Month, I bring us back home to Montcalm County to explore the presence of Black pioneers in our county 150 years ago. The monument to Samuel and Henrietta Lett at their grave in the Bloomer Township Cemetery. — Submitted photo Initially, I thought . . .
Archival photos remind us of long-lost streetscapes and rural vistas and depict both famous and ordinary people in wardrobes fitting their times. The Historical Society of Carroll County is a rich resource for these photos, but most of its portraits feature subjects who are solidly middle or upper class and White, creating an unintended but […]
Cathy Castro, a 78-year-old retired language teacher, lives in the Mertz Del Amo Estates mobile home park, near the western bank of Compton Creek. During the rainstorms that blanketed California this month, the streets of her low-lying community “looked like rivers,” she said. Even so, she said, most of her neighbors in the 500-unit park […]
Black residents in Montgomery County fare better than many of their counterparts across the nation but still not as well as White residents, according to a newly-released study by the Brookings Institution and the NAACP. The report focused on social issues, including home ownership, education, income and place of birth. “This data is another example […]
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