Hopkinsville Community College will celebrate Black History Month with a virtual event next week.
School officials said Donavan Pinner would be the guest speaker for the event, focusing on ‘Peace and Unity.’ The event will take place Wednesday afternoon, February 17, at 4:00
here. Pinner is a community organizer in Hopkinsville.
He graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, with a Bachelor of Arts in Religion. While at the college, he served as Executive Director of the Student Government Association, a Lead Residential Advisor, a member of the Pre-Alumni Association, Archrival Assistant and the Martin Luther King Jr., International Chapel Assistants Program.
Panelists speak at an American Physical Society session last week on how physics departments can respond proactively to threats.
It’s not unusual for Theodore Hodapp to get a call when a university physics department is under threat of cutbacks or closure. As director of project development at the American Physical Society for the last 16 years, he’s typically gotten one or two calls a year.
“I’ve now gotten, I think, six requests in the last year, just to give you a sense, and three in the last month,” Hodapp said last week at a session of the APS Annual Leadership Meeting, which was held virtually this year due to the pandemic. “We realize that this economic thing is hitting lots of places. It’s hitting smaller places more than it’s hitting bigger places, and we’re trying to work with departments as much as we can to help them out.”
The Unfulfilled Promise of Julian Bond
How could someone so telegenic, so witty, and skilled in politics have missed out on higher office?
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Three years before he died at 75 in 2015, Julian Bond sat down for an interview on his life and work. Asked how he would like to be remembered, Bond replied, with his characteristic alloy of amiable candor and laconic wit:
I want a double-sided headstone. On one side, I want it to say, “Race Man” and that means a man who doesn’t dislike other races, but who’s proud of his own and wants to lift it up. The other side is going to say, “Easily Amused.”
How Austin billionaire Robert Smith avoided indictment for evading $43 million in federal taxes
Attorney General William Barr ultimately made the call to handle Smith’s case with a non-prosecution agreement.
Visate Equity s Robert Smith of Austin is best known for paying off the college debt of Morehouse College graduates in 2019.(Ricky Carioti / The Washington Post)
U.S. prosecutors and Internal Revenue Service agents spent four years piercing the veil of secrecy that billionaire money manager Robert F. Smith wove to hide more than $200 million in income. Last year, according to people familiar with the matter, a team led by the Justice Department’s top tax prosecutor argued to then-Attorney General William Barr that the evidence warranted indicting Smith, who had made headlines for pledging to pay the student debt of a Morehouse College graduating class.
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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. One Lake Tahoe Community College staff member is using his experience growing up in the segregated south in the heart of the civil rights movement to shape young minds.
King speaking at an LTCC-hosted anti-racism rally in June 2020. / Provided
Dr. Jonathan King joined LTCC in 2018 as the vice president of student services, a role he sees as “basically is to make sure our students are happy, healthy, excited, ready to learn, ready to grow, ready to graduate, and transfer and flourish and make a difference in the world.”
He knows a little something about making a difference in the world; from watching his grandfather and parents fight for equality, to meeting Martin Luther King Jr., to being one of the first black students in an all-white school and so many other experiences that have shaped him.