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For African American veterans in greater Springfield, Mass., and beyond, their loyalty and devotion to their fellow veterans, and to their country, remains as strong as ever.
by afampov · March 2, 2021 By Frederick A. Hurst Jynai McDonald is running for Springfield’s Ward 4 City Council seat placing her in position to join several other local African American women elected officials who have been playing a significant, if not dominant, political leadership role for the benefit of the African American community and Springfield in general. 32-year-old Jynai is the daughter of Lester McDonald III and Victoria Lewis. Her paternal grandparents migrated to Springfield from Mississippi and North Carolina many years ago. Her maternal grand...
by afampov · February 2, 2021 By Frederick A. Hurst Dear John, are you satisfied?! You may recall, John, that just before elections in November, you asked me, “What harm can it do?” to re-elect Donald Trump for a second term as President of the United States of America. And I told you – in somewhat more elaborate terms – that our imperfect Republic that has been steadily, though slowly, improving since its creation by imperfect but very capable men, was at stake. (See my “Dear John” article on p. 24 of the November 1, 2020 issue of Point of View.) Ma...
By Frederick A. Hurst I know I’m not the only one with Georgia on my mind but I do think my perspective on current political events in Georgia might be a bit unique and certainly nostalgic. Although I was born and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts along with my four siblings, both my grandmother and grandfather on my mother’s side migrated to Springfield from Georgia in the mid 1920s. As my grandmother described it to me before she passed, my grandfather came North first looking for work and she came later by train with her two oldest boys, Lee and Frederick, my namesake, after my gran...