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2021 is nearly over, and with 2022 on the horizon, The Northerner is taking a look at some of the best stories published in our publication since the start of the year. The year began with a unique challenge for our staff, as due to the COVID-19 pandemic and much of the university shifted to...
This warm-hearted theatrical experience is presented as a show-within-a-show when the delightfully looney Victorian theatre company at the Music Hall Royale 'puts on' its exuberant production of an unfinished Dickens mystery. (Dickens began writing the Mystery of Edwin Drood in 1870 but died the same year).
Press release content from PR Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. SiriusXM Connected Vehicle Expands into Mexico with NissanConnect® Services powered by SiriusXM April 6, 2021 GMT (PRNewsfoto/Sirius XM Holdings Inc.) NEW YORK, April 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Sirius XM Connected Vehicle Services Inc., a provider of connected services to vehicle manufacturers, has launched service in Mexico through NissanConnect® Services powered by SiriusXM. Drivers in Mexico in select 2021 Nissan Sentra and Nissan Kicks vehicles will have access to the suite of connected safety and c...
Baptist churches became popular among African Americans in the South in part because they offered more membership rights than other denominations. Until the nineteenth century, and unlike the more-elite Episcopal church, Baptist churches routinely offered free and enslaved blacks full membership, and sometimes roles like exhorter or deacon, in their congregations; they restricted leadership roles like elder and pastor to whites. Until 1831, blacks were also free to lead their own separate Baptist congregations, providing a level of autonomy for African American communities nonexistent in mos...
| Credit: Woodland cemetery cleanup volunteers Over at Woodland, a dedicated group of volunteers had already begun making headway, including Kathleen Harrell, a first-grade teacher at Shady Grove Elementary School. Harrell tells PEOPLE she was shocked to discover two years ago that Ashe was buried in Richmond, and that her surprise inspired her to dig deeper into the local, long-forgotten cemeteries. An initial trip to Woodland shocked her: "I saw grass six feet tall. I saw briars. I could ...