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Black veterans take 'honor flight' to Washington monuments to celebrate Juneteenth
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 4 days agoShe enlisted in the Army in 1973 fresh out of high school, following in the footsteps of her older...
A draft resister, a judge and the moment that still binds them after 54 years
Daily Press· 3 hours agoThe aging draft resister came early to beat the Memorial Day observance at Los Angeles National...
A school board reinstated Confederate names. It split the community again.
Washington Post· 6 days agoCarter is one of five high-schoolers who joined a lawsuit filed recently by the Virginia NAACP...
Restoring Town of Niagara cemetery becomes labor of love for comm
Niagara Gazette, Niagara Falls, N.Y. via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoJun. 22—TOWN OF NIAGARA — It all started with a casual visit. In 2019, Town of Niagara historian Pete Ames went to an old cemetery off Witmer Road to do some research. When ...
BPS Integration: Meet the families whose lawsuit created change
The Boston Globe· 2 days agoThe 14 families behind Morgan v. Hennigan, the 1974 federal decision to desegregate the Boston...
Age doesn't stop Elkhart diver
The Elkhart Truth, Ind. via Yahoo Sports· 4 days agoElkhart lifelong resident David King is an experienced diver. Very experienced. “For 64 years, I’ve been a diver,” said the 74-year old King. And the 1968 Elkhart High < ...
Archdeacon: The time former Flyer Hank Josefczyk eclipsed Jerry West ... and John Havlicek
Dayton Daily News· 2 days agoAs the tributes and remembrances have poured in honoring the legendary Jerry West, who died last...
Asa and Dolores: Life, as you make it
The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va. via Yahoo News· 6 days agoJun. 16—MONONGAH — The residents of St. Barbara's Memorial Nursing Home may not have realized it, but a great American love story was spooling out in twilight under the roof they all shared.
Richard Brinkley Jackson
The Jacksonville Daily News· 2 days agoRichard Brinkley Jackson, age 94, of Midlothian, a retired Senior Vice President of Reynolds International and former adjunct professor at Virginia...
Mountaineer Memories: 1960 Olympians vs. Cleveland Pipers
The Charleston Gazette· 4 days agoThere are normally tens of thousands of basketball games played every year in West Virginia — men’s, women’s and coed, pickup or competitive, grasshopper, middle ...
