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Alabama State graduate who mentored 2 generations dead of COVID Updated Dec 21, 2020; By Isabelle Taft The Sun Herald (TNS) and Tribune Media Services To two generations of Jackson County kids, he was Uncle Beev: James Davis, Jr., the director of the Boys & Girls Club Andrew Johnson unit in Pascagoula, and fixture at every high school football and basketball game. Though few knew the story, and some who once knew it had forgotten it, the nickname Beev dated to childhood, when he had been a skinny kid with big front teeth. The nickname was “Beaver” at first, but Be...

“Asbury Park does nothing, it simply amuses,” noted author Stephen Crane, who once lived in the New Jersey seaside amusement mecca. And in his 19th century heyday there were a lot of places, big and small, in an America that played that role. Among those that did so locally, from roughly 1891 to 1906, was Laury’s Island Park, sometimes known simply as Island Park. This should not be confused with a similarly named amusement park near Easton. It grew out of Laury’s Station, a stop on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, and thrived at a time when Americans were having a few extra qu...

Janine de Greef, Belgian who helped smuggle downed Allied airmen to safety, dies at 95 Phil Davison, The Washington Post Dec. 15, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3As a teenager, Janine de Greef helped downed Allied airmen escape Nazi-occupied France during World War II.Family photoShow MoreShow Less 2of3Janine de Greef receives the U.S. Medal of Freedom.Family photoShow MoreShow Less 3of3 Janine de Greef was a 14-year Belgian schoolgirl when the Nazis invaded her country in May 1940. With her youth proving an effective cover, she became at 16 a member of the Belgian resistance, he...

The weekend. rob: trying to rewrite history. the dallas independent school district is debating whether to change the name of schools named after confederate generals. heather: pc culture taking hold of the school system, here to weigh in from dallas, lawrence jones. >> good morning. heather: the four elementary schools honoring stonewall jackson, robert e lee, albert johnson and william cable. is this going too far? >> i don't know if it is too far but it is a matter of priority. dallas should be more concerned about the education of our can students considering dallas isn't doing so well edu...

Connected with that, but it wasn't a nazi invention. it wasn't only a foreign fascist fascination. in the 1920s, we did have a chief congressional eugenicist using taxpayer dollars to ranking feeble mindedness of american immigrants on the basis of their national origin. % albert johnson made harry lawson the chief eugenecist, he had promoted mandatory -- he wanted states to forcibly neuter people as if they were animals to improve the american gene pool. labelland was frustrated with the inefficient way states were going about that, they wrong standardization laws, sterilize more people again...