Marion schools: Howard Academy to get $300K repair after water leak
A plumbing leak in a bathroom inside the century-old Howard Academy Community Center has damaged a main support beam that will cost at least $300,000 to repair to keep the historic building open.
The building houses the community’s Black History Museum and Archives of Marion County, which opened a year ago. The school was home to Howard Academy, the first Black school in Ocala.
Howard Academy, which later became Howard High School, was established in 1866 in Ocala. It was the only place Black children could go to get an education in Ocala proper after the Civil War. The building in question was built in about 1916.
BY JEFF E. SCHAPIRO
Richmond Times-Dispatch
In toppling monuments to Confederates, Gov. Ralph Northam â and heâs too modest to admit it â is erecting one to himself.
Itâs not bronze or marble or granite, though as a soon-to-be-lame-duck governor, Northam qualifies for an official portrait. Northamâs unlikely monument â one more oriented to the future than the past â largely will be fashioned from Virginiaâs budget, etched with dollars for programs that aim to expand democracy in a state that long resisted it.
On Wednesday, in the first step of his last chance to fully shape spending before his term ends in January 2022, Northam laid out to the legislatureâs money committees more proposals to address the issue that suddenly and dramatically reset the arc of his administration: racial equity. Unmasked in 2019 by Northamâs blackface embarrassment, its urgency was elevated in 2020 by the George Floyd killing and the corona
Soul Santa tradition continues virtually at the Black History Museum Oh, I get a big kick out of this here. This is one of my pride and joys of my life.
Soul Santa tradition continues virtually at the Black History Museum
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RICHMOND, Va. For Floyd Brown, this is the most wonderful time of the year.
For the third consecutive year, Brown a Recreational Instructor of the Richmond Department of Parks and Cafeteria Manager of Richmond Public Schools, is taking on the annual traditional role of Soul Santa at the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia.
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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin: A Certain Kind of Diversity
That a black man might helm the horrendous war machine that so effectively chews up black and brown bodies is an obscenity that’s absolutely American.by Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.) Posted on
America’s first black presumptive secretary of defense grew up in the same town – Thomasville, GA – as the first black West Point graduate, Henry O. Flipper. I actually took select cadets from my civil rights history class to visit the southwest Georgia city on an academic trip in the summer of 2016. In fact, I vaguely remember the owner and namesake