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February 24, 2024
The Lorain County Urban League, headquartered at 200 Middle Ave. Suite 200 in Elyria, has several upcoming events planned including celebrating Black History Month, encouraging people to vote, taking young people on college tours and fighting for fair housing. “Our goal is to empower our community by changing one life at a time,” said Parris […]
January 17, 2024
Lorain County Community College hosted its “Echoes of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr” event Jan. 16, a day after Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Kianna McIntire-Pharms introduced the speakers for the event and the Jeff Meyers Band Quartet played music to open and close the commemoration of King at the college, 1005 N. Abbe Road […]
January 11, 2024
The cities of Elyria and Lorain will host events honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Jan. 15. The first event will take place at 10 a.m. with a march from Ely Square to the Elyria Performing Arts Center where activities will continue at 10:30 a.m. Lise Day, a member of Elyria’s Community […]
November 11, 2023
Christine Smith passed away. This is the full obituary where you can share condolences and memories. Published in the The Tribune Democrat on 2023-11-10.
September 14, 2023
The Lorain County Urban League is focused on creating more health equity and hosted two events over two days.
August 29, 2023
Lorain County Urban League took a busload to Washington, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
April 28, 2021
This story is part of a group of stories called First Person is where Chalkbeat features personal essays by educators, students, parents, and others thinking and writing about public education. I was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. Although we lived in an area that was poverty-stricken, our lives seemed luxurious to me. I thought our house was a castle since it had three floors that towered over the one-story houses in the neighborhood. School wasn’t challenging, but I tried my...
January 26, 2021
14 Min Read (Reuters) - Bermuda and the Bahamas aren’t exactly big players in the oil-and-gas world. They don’t produce any of the fuels at all. Yet the islands are deep wells of profit for European oil giant Royal Dutch Shell Plc. FILE PHOTO: An oil tank truck fills the pumps at a Shell petrol station in Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 31, 2019. Picture taken May 31, 2019. REUTERS/Nacho Doce/File Photo In 2018 and 2019, Shell earned more than $2.7 billion - about 7% of its total income in those yea...