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LOWVILLE — Construction material supply chain issues have another casualty: the bottom floor of the new surgical pavilion slated for the Lewis County Health System main campus on North State
Tyeastia Green Shortly after moving to Burlington last year for a job in city government, Tyeastia Green pitched her new colleagues on celebrating Juneteenth. Green, the Queen City's first director of racial equity, inclusion and belonging, had fond memories of the holiday from growing up in Minneapolis. Yet Green, who was then the city's only Black department head, says she was met with confused looks when she first mentioned the event. It's a portmanteau of June 19, the day in 1865 when enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, lea...
At 2 p.m. until 8 p.m. at Flynn Elementary School, the Black History 101 Museum presents artifacts reflecting slavery, politics, Jim Crow laws, science, religion, education, music, sports and civil rights. Highlights include documents signed by Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Mary Mcleod Bethune, W.E.B. Dubois, Paul Robeson, Rosa Parks, Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., George Washington Carver, Lena Horne, Carter G. Woodson and Angela Davis. At 3 p.m. until 8 p.m., the True Black History Museum sets up in Roosevelt Park. The collection of rare artifacts preserving...