From the daily archives: Thursday, February 23, 2012
The students of the after-school tutorial program sponsored by the Greene County Children’s Policy Council held a Black History Program honoring 11 of the Greene County residents who where active participants in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s. Prior to the program students [...]
Memorial services were being set for Norma Merrick Sklarek, a celebrated African American architect who accomplished numerous firsts in the field. Sklarek died Monday at her home in Pacific Palisades. She was 85. Born Norma Merrick in Harlem to Trinidadian parents, she attended Hunter College High School, then Barnard College and acquired her architecture degree [...]
By Bobbi Booker Special to the NNPA from the Philadelphia Tribune The groundbreaking at the construction site of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington, D.C. begins this week, notable since it is the last full week of Black History Month 2012. One of the [...]
By Barrington M. Salmon, Staff Writer Special to the NNPA from the Washington Informer After more than a year of negotiations, five of the nation’s largest mortgage providers agreed last week to pay $25 billion after investigations by the Department of Justice, state attorneys-general and state regulators revealed widespread abuse and fraudulent [...]
Written by Danny J. Bakewell, Jr. Special to the NNPA from the Los Angeles Sentinel Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has been tapped by President Barack Obama to be the gavel to gavel Chairman of the 2012 Democratic National Convention to begin Monday, September 3, 2012 and end Thursday, September 6, [...]
The Black Belt Community Foundation (BBCF) will conduct a Community Awareness Grant Seekers Workshop in Eutaw on Thursday, March 15th at 5:30 pm, in the Greene County Courthouse located at 400 Morrow Avenue in Eutaw. Community organizations based in and serving BBCF’s 12-county service area are eligible to apply. Those counties include Bullock, Choctaw, Dallas, [...]
Due to the underfunding of the Judicial Branch of Government and the lay-off of Court specialists in every court, the Greene County Circuit Clerk’s Office has been forced to cut the weekly hours that it is open to the public. According to Circuit Clerk Etta Edwards the new hours will be: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday [...]
From March 1 to 9, there will be a series of events to celebrate the 47th anniversary of the 1965 Bloody Sunday March in Selma and a continuation of the commemorative march the full distance from Selma to Montgomery to highlight current issues facing people in Alabama and around the nation. The initial four days [...]
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