From Living a Double Life to Rediscovering Unconditional Family Love
Michael Tate
By Michael Tate–
My late maternal grandmother, Mary McKay, was born on February 12, 1912. For as long as I can remember, we would gather at her home every year to celebrate her birthday with a Valentine’s Day-themed party. It was all about Black love between my extended family of cousins, aunties, and uncles.
After eating some of the best food you could imagine from the myriad covered dishes, my granny would read to us from the
Call & Post
, Cleveland’s local Black news weekly. Since it was Black History Month, she would focus on the special features that highlighted the achievements of nationally-acclaimed African Americans like MLK, Jr., Shirley Chisholm, Rosa Parks, and Sidney Poitier, to local unsung small business owners, teachers, and government officials like Carl and Louis Stokes.
This list is compiled from logs released to media by the Natrona County Sheriff s Office.
This log may not reflect all arrests for this time period. For example, police will not release any information about juvenile arrests. State law prohibits any official from identifying a person accused of a sex crime until the defendant is arraigned in district court.
Everyone listed here is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
The charges listed here are what the arresting agency has recommended to the Natrona County District Attorney s Office. However, formal charges filed by prosecutors may differ from the recommended charges listed here.