Kerry Eggers, author of the recently published biography of Longwood alum Jerome Kersey, will be in attendance at the Jerome Kersey Classic tournament.
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Adelaide Solomon-Jordan, a historian of early New England African American biography and history, talks about her work and the book “The Escape of Oney Judge,” by Emily Arnold McCully last October at her home in western Maine. She often shares this true story with area children of a young woman who was a slave to George Washington and his family and who managed to escape slavery.
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Rumford area educator Adelaide Solomon-Jordan is a historian whose research includes early New England African American biography and history. She has also researched her own family history, beginning with her parents and other ancestors who came to the U.S. from Bermuda and the Grand Cayman Islands in the early 1900s.
♪ >> brian: tuesday night, the president is on a bit of a role. if you factor in his tweets on the protest in boston. and working his way onto the stage, the vice president get onto the stage. and he's going to do the introduction. actually, that is franklin grant. he is there. right after ben carson. guys, a lot of emotion in phoenix, arizona. the president's soon to step up to the microphone. greg, what do you expect and hope to hear tonight? >> greg: i expect the president to come on stage and juggle chainsaws and pass out kittens. that's my prediction, america. i expect a lot of reporters to use heat metaphors. it's 106 degrees. the temperatures and the tempers may be rising. attention might be boiling over. you mentioned this before. it's very calm. there will be a few networks that are disappointed. >> dana: i think the president will make some comments on his afghanistan speech last night
because he speaking to the american legion tomorrow. if he wants to carry that through, he should do that tonight. perhaps get a little more detail and think the military for their response which is very positive. >> juan: i'm cagle glad to see alameda king. i wonder if that's a signal from the president that maybe he understands he screwed up. >> brian: a lot of his supporters, african-americans, who support this -- >> kimberly: i like the lineup of who they have. evangelical support with franklin grant. the community has been there for them consistently like they were during the campaign. i am looking forward to reading the transcript. i want to hear what almeda king has to say and also dr. ben carson and franklin grant. before i really believe the president got -- the first seven months, however appealing and replaced went.