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Makayla Coleman, 15 (left), and her brother Devon Hester, 13 (right), have been tapped for their opinions about city planning and civics. Philadelphia is targeting the Gen Z’ers for more government and civic participation. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Devon Hester, 13, is ready to share all of his opinions with city government. He’s been practicing.
For the last 12 months, he’s been rapping about everything from police brutality to food insecurity, spitting about change and marching downtown.
Hester, a student at Wissahickon Charter School at the Awbury Campus, said as he grows up, he’s become more aware of problems in the city and racism in particular. Music has been his primary means of expression but after a year of protest and a pandemic that kept him at home, away from friends and his school, he wants to take his ideas directly to people in a position to make change.
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Calvin C. Goode, longtime former Phoenix City Councilmember, has passed away
By Kenneth Wong
Goode was 91 years old when he died.
PHOENIX - FOX 10 has learned that former Phoenix City Councilmember Calvin C. Goode has passed away.
FOX 10 profiled Goode in a news report in 2017 about George Washington Carver High School, which was located just south of Downtown Phoenix. Goode graduated from that school.
According to the website of the George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center, the school was built specifically for African Americans, due to local sentiment which urged racial separation among high school students, even though Arizona did not mandate high school segregation at the time.
RICHARD REID
Special to The T&D
Fifty years ago, Orangeburg County initiated an educational system that completely changed the course of the social side of life for the people both Black and white.
While the United States Supreme Court rendered its decision on segregated schools in 1954, South Carolina and Orangeburg County delayed full desegregation until the 1970 school year when the last appeal was denied.
That year was the beginning of school consolidation for Orangeburg County.
In 1963, the first Blacks enrolled into the all-white schools in the City of Orangeburg.
Then in 1964, Orangeburg began operating under a âfreedom of choiceâ plan. The separate but equal facilities for the Blacks and for the whites gave way, slowly but surely, to an integrated system of consolidating the schools.
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