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 [...]
On Sunday, July 31, a benefit was held by the Greene County Chapter of SCLC for the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, who suffers from cancer and is now in a nursing home. Although the turnout was light due to several schedule conflicts, Elder Spiver W. Gordon announced that over $1,720 had been raised in [...]
Mrs. Mary Lee Wilder, age 99, receives food items from Greene County SCLC President Spiver W. Gordon and Lorenzo French. Gordon delivered 100 pieces of chicken donated by Church’s Chicken as well as canned goods, bottled water, soft drinks and other items donated by local merchants to residents in areas hit by the tornadoes which [...]
By: John Zippert, Co-Publisher Despite rain and cold weather this weekend, thousands of people participated in the more than thirty events that comprised the 2011 Bridge Crossing Jubilee in Selma. This year’s program commemorated the 46th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday March which was the impetus for the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. [...]
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Greene County leaders ask for Sen. Scott Beason’s resignation after racist comment
Spiver Gordon, President of the local SCLC Chapter and other Greene County community leaders including Hattie Edwards, Mayor Pro-tem of Eutaw, Lorenzo French, Scott Muhammad and John Zippert held a press conference Friday at the Courthouse to call for the resignation of Senator Scott Beason after he made racist remarks about the Black [...]