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The Echo Theater is seen on Dec. 10 in Laurens, S.C. The Echo Project is working to renovate the building that once housed the racist Redneck Shop into a community center and racial reconciliation museum.
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Dialysis patients Jorge Aldana, 63, right, and John Diaz, 27, work in a vegetable garden during an agro-therapy session at El Tunal Hospital in Bogota, Colombia, Monday, Dec. 14.
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In this Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020 file photo, Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain celebrates after wining the Formula One race in Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir, Bahrain. Hamilton is now a “Sir” as well as a seven-time Formula One champion after being knighted Wednesday, Dec. 30 in Queen Elizabeth II’s New Year honors list. ....

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What's in a name? | Bellefonte Area School District


Bellefonte, Pa. — The sound of an imitation war whoop echoes throughout Rogers Stadium.
It’s the kind of sound used in old Hollywood westerns, the sound children playing “Cowboys and Indians” might make as they move their hands over their mouths. When Bellefonte high plays Penns Valley in an early October football game, fans let out the cry as the Red Raiders rush onto the field. To the fans it’s just another Friday night, as it has been since 1936. Others in town would definitely not approve.
Kathryn Pletcher, of Bellefonte, Pa., poses for a portrait at the Arboretum at Penn State on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020. Pletcher, a descendent of the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa tribe of the Ojibwe people, is one of the foremost voices advocating for the change of Bellefonte Area High School’s mascot, the Red Raiders. ....

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