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Black History Month About Black History Month Were celebrating Black History Month by shouting out some of our favorite sons and daughters throughout the month of February.  

Samuel Mensah, a rapper who used the stage name Xploder and was the CEO of Uncle John's Bakery, has died of coronavirus

Tributes flood in for North London African bakery owner and dad who died of Covid-19 He was a former rapper who went by the name of Xploder 16:29, 29 JAN 2021 Get FREE email updates for North LondonInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. IM IN! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. OurPrivacy Noticeexplains more about how we use y...

Winners will be announced at a virtual ceremony on February 22, 2021. Unfortunately, not a single finalist is from the Texarkana area. Two years ago Cattlmans won the Arkansas Food Hall of Fame and Hope Watermelon Festival won Food-Themed Event last year. On the bright side, there are some great finalists in Hot Springs and Little Rock to check out! And here are all the finalists. Finalists include: Arkansas Food Hall of Fame • AQ Chicken House of Springdale (Washington County) • Colonial S...

Jan 25, 2021 Our Miller family’s history has always been interesting to me, so I was happy to be presented with a project requiring research into our farm’s history. Besides, I’m retired, it’s the dead of winter and I’m on restrictions while recuperating from surgery. What else did I have to do? The project was to document that our family has owned, resided upon and worked this one particular farm in Hancock County, W.Va., continuously for 100 years or more, to qualify it as a West Vi...

Clyde Wooldridge JIM THORPE HOME TO VOTE ON INDIAN ACT Jim Thorpe, famous Native American athlete, stormed into Native American politics on Saturday, Dec. 4, 1937, as he once did on the football gridiron. The former world’s decathlon champion and football All-American shifted quickly into political phrases as he returned to his hometown to denounce provisions of the Thomas-Rogers Indian Act. He urged against adoption of a separate constitution by the Sac & Fox tribe, of which he was a member....

13, Dance & Back Ground Music Bob Weir – guitar and vocals, Phil Lesh – bass and vocals, Bill Kreutzmann – drums, Mickey Hart – percussion, Warren Haynes – guitar and vocals, Jeff Chimenti – keyboards Of the very few reviewers, most seem to not like the Dead being political. Apparently not out in the open, since they were ‘political” from the days when they were the Warlocks. Just that for the most part, they supported social events and ideals: REVIEW: Thanks for the Show A Grea...

Illustrations by Andrea Ucini. PatriciaHighsmith Sat 9 Jan 2021 04.00 EST Last modified on Fri 15 Jan 2021 08.48 EST “Ellie, eat your breakfast,” Elspeth’s mother said from behind her, in the kind of voice she used when she was thinking about something else. “Just look how thick the cream is this morning.” “Mm- hmm,” Elspeth murmured politely. She wrung her hands in her lap and looked down at her oatmeal that was still steaming though surrounded by cream like ...

The not-singing bird With endless silence. —David Olney People say it was a poetic exit. I assure you, NOBODY wants to die onstage — figuratively or literally. On Jan. 18, Americana pioneer, singer-songwriter, recording artist, pre-pandemic streamcaster, actor, and my longtime client and good friend David Olney died of an apparent heart attack midsong. He was center stage between Amy Rigby and Scott Miller at the 30A Songwriter Festival in the Florida panhandle. His last words: “I’m sor...

 My dad was a genius. He knew what a horsepower was. From the time he was a boy living on a farm, he knew that you hitched up an old nag to the harness, called