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47 minutes ago · The site of a transient motel in Detroit where three young Black men were killed, allegedly by white police officers, during the city’s bloody July 1967 race riot is receiving a historic marker
1 day ago · Night Labor. by Michael R. Burch. for Rachel Corrie. Tonight we keep the flame alive; we keep the candle lit. We burn bright incense in your name. and swear we’ll not forget—. your innocence, your courage, your example—till bleak night.
1 day ago · Canada Soccer has suspended its women’s national team head coach for the remainder of the Games amid a drone spying scandal. The Canadian Olympic Committee added in a statement released shortly ...
1 day ago · Canadian athletes claimed 24 medals in Tokyo in 2021 for the most at a non-boycotted Summer Olympics despite months of pandemic pivots in their preparation, and in a Games held in a state of ...
3 days ago · Etienne told WWL-TV she will never forget walking into McDonogh 19 with her classmate. “I’m truly going to miss her,” she said. In recent years, Prevost Williams and Etienne launched the New Orleans Four Legacy Collection as a way to ensure that their history as the New Orleans Four will never be forgotten.
3 days ago · Tate, Etienne and Prevost Civil Rights Interpretive Center Procession & Ceremony 1 p.m. Black Men of Labor will lead the brass band for a special New Orleans Jazz Funeral March.
4 days ago · On Nov. 14, 1960, Prevost Williams, along with 6-year-olds Leona Tate and Gail Etienne walked into McDonogh No. 19 Elementary School as groups of white people spit, cursed and threw rocks at them.
