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When you’re at a Beaumont city park or librarydo you feel safe?Well, that consideration led to the city and Beaumont police using technology to cut down on cri
Willard home, and family legacy, endure FacebookTwitterEmail 1of33 David and Kim Willard stand among a stairwell filled with family photographs in their home, which is the first brick residence ever built by and for a Black family in Beaumont. The two-story home on Gladys Avenue was built by David's great-grandfather Elmo Riley Willard, I, who was born in August of 1867 on the Calder Plantation, where his parents, Riley Elmo Willard and Margaret Willard, were slaves. A placard mounted near the front door lists the home as a "Historical Cultural Landmark" within the city. Photo taken Thursday,...
The Change of Plans That Made Rufus Cormier a Trailblazer The attorney never wanted to practice law, but he ended up in the middle of history. By Emma Schkloven 12/14/2020 at 6:00am Published in the December 2020 issue of Houstonia Rufus Cormier, retired partner at Baker Botts, never planned to go into law. But a campus protest during his junior year at Southern Methodist University changed everything. It started when the schoolâs Black students decided to occupy the presidentâs office and demand that more Black students and faculty be recruited to the school. After a couple o...
me ♪ ♪ to me young people come first ♪ ♪ they have the courage of where we failed ♪ ♪ and if i could put chance of light to carry us through again ♪ ♪ we who believe in freedom cannot rest ♪ ♪ say you like you know it now ♪ we who believe in freedom cannot rest ♪ ♪ struggling myself don't mean a whole lot ♪ ♪ i've come to realize that teaching others to stand and fight ♪ ♪ is the only way to survive ♪ a woman speaks in a voice and i must be heard ♪ ♪ at times i could be quite difficult ♪ ♪ won't bow to no man's word ♪ we who believe in fr...
you can eliminate war. but you have to have militaries to prevent killers from killing the innocent. so most of what i saw through 9/11, wars are ubiquitous. we're not at war against terror, no more than we were at war against the fa-- throughout history who have employed terror, and there's time honored methods to counter act it that involve the people who fund it and the people who allow sanctuary and the people who benefitted by it. i wish i could say that war is the worst of all human experiences, but unfortunately in the 20th century, combined mao and stalin and hitler killed pe...