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UNM men’s golfers (from left) Matthew Watkins, Bastien Amat , Brandon Shong, Albert Boneta and Sam Choi hang out at UNM Championship Golf Course, site of one of the NCAA regional tournaments next Monday-Wednesday. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Journal)
Sam Choi, Albert Boneta, Matthew Watkins, Brandon Shong and Bastien Amat of the University of New Mexico men’s golf team were in a playful mood putting on the practice green at UNM Championship Golf Course on Wednesday morning.
Before Choi, Boneta and Amat met with the media for interviews they competed against each other with the loser regulated to doing up to 20 pushups depending on the wager. These are the Lobos, the fifth-seeded team at the NCAA Regional that takes place on their home course Monday through Wednesday. They are loose and confident, believing they are playing their best golf of the season.
Vaccine Equity Remains Elusive as Vaccination Rates for People of Color Still Lag
Despite working in health care, Vince Ford was wary of the COVID-19 shot.
Months of following the research and development of the vaccine – and realizing without it, holidays with his out-of-state kids wouldn’t happen – moved the needle.
Now, during COVID-19 vaccine education sessions, Ford remembers his own skepticism of the shot to relate to people in his community and address their concerns.
Ford is senior vice president of Community Health Services at Prisma Health in South Carolina, where Black residents like him make up more than a quarter of the population, but only 19% of vaccinations, according to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation analysis. In contrast, white residents make up 67% of the population and 64% of those vaccinated, state data as of April 28 shows.
Joy Harjo is the celebrated author of nine books of poetry and the memoir
Crazy Brave. She edited the collection of Native nations poetry,
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through. And her most recent album is
I Pray for My Enemies. Joy Harjo was born and lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where, six generations ago, her ancestors were forcibly relocated from their homelands in Alabama.
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So I actually started reading
Crazy Brave a few months ago, during the pandemic. And I kind of read it like poetry. I read it a little bit at a time and savored it a bit at a time, which was a wonderful way to read it. And in preparing to be with you, I looked at some other interviews you’ve done, and I really want to draw into your sensibility, your gifts of seeing and knowing, which includes vision and dreams and memories that are not contained in this lifetime. And I felt like people don’t really go there with you, although you go there in your writing. For example, yo
NJSIAA announces Gallagher/Bollinger Hall of Fame class for 2021
NJSIAA announces Gallagher/Bollinger Hall of Fame class for 2021
All inductees were selected by a statewide committee of journalists and both active and retired school administrators.
“What always amazes me about our annual Hall of Fame process is that there never seems to be a shortage of remarkable individuals who either played or contributed to scholastic athletics in New Jersey,” Jack DuBois, NJSIAA assistant director, who chairs the selection committee, said in a prepared statement. “This year’s group is no exception, and it speaks to the long, proud history of high school sports in our state.”