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STERLING HEIGHTS/SHELBY TOWNSHIP/UTICA — A Davis Junior High School teacher was named the Utica Community Schools Teacher of the Year and was awarded the lease of a new vehicle by the Suburban Collection in a surprise announcement March 21.

Liev Schreiber's "Everything is Illuminated" begins in goofiness and ends in silence and memory. How it gets from one to the other is the subject of the film, a journey undertaken by three men and a dog into the secrets of the past. The movie is narrated by Alex (Eugene Hutz), a Ukranian whose family specializes in "tours of dead Jews." Alex and his grandfather (also named Alex) drive American Jews in search of their roots to the places where many of their ancestors died.

Some of you listening to this may have seen the film Selma. It depicted Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders in the fight for voting rights. The violence that took place at Selma helped lead to passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Parts of the film were controversial: historians objected to how it depicted President Lyndon Johnson as less supportive of civil rights than he actually was. The national civil rights movement didn’t just begin with the Montgomery Bus Boycott or the March on Washington, of course. African Americans had been seeking their constitutional rights f...