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The "First Lady of Gospel Music" delivers a sampling of her vast music ministry in this Tiny Desk home Concert.

Rook Evans, age 87, of Marshall, died Sunday, January 24, 2021, at The Arbors at Westport Estates in Marshall. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, January 29, at First Baptist Church in Marshall, with Dr. Mike Parris and Rev. Wayne Doolin officiating. Burial will follow at Ridge Park Cemetery. Masks are required at all events. There will be no visitation, but friends may stop by Campbell-Lewis Funeral Home to sign the guestbook and pay their respects from 1 to 5 p.m. Thursday, January 28. The family request no flowers, and that memorials be made to First Baptist Church or Salt...

Students described the need to update a course curriculum that treats Black history separately from U.S. history.  And when it is Black History Month, participants said there is pressure on Black students to do all the talking. Teachers don't know how to respond, when teens make biased and racist comments in the classroom, students said.  Avery Evans, 18 of Newtown, described experiences with school security focusing on her because she is a minority. Security focuses on Black students more than white kids, she said. “We have to be 10 times better because of who we are,” Evans said. �...

When President John F. Kennedy was killed in Dallas, Martin Luther King Jr. told his wife, “This is what is going to happen to me also. I keep telling you, this is a sick society.” Nearly 53 years after King's own assassination, that sickness casts a shadow on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The federal holiday comes after a painful year for many Americans of color. The killing of George Floyd by police set off a summer of protest against racial injustice. Civil rights activist and Georgia Congressman John Lewis died in July. Even the pandemic seems to expose inequities in American society a...