Tamika Palmer, the mother of Breonna Taylor, right, listens to a news conference, Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, in Louisville, Ky. Family attorney Ben Crump is calling for the Kentucky attorney general to release the transcripts from the grand jury that decided not to charge any of the officers involved in the Black woman s death. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
What’s left to say about 2020 except that it’s over. But what a year with the well-chronicled coronavirus pandemic that killed more than 300,000; racial unrest that created division in across many communities and a presidential election that was over until it wasn’t. And there was plenty of more to a year that goes down as one of the most memorable in recent history. Here’s some of what happened.
Horace McWhorter Everett, Jrâ¦teacher, husband, father, brotherâ¦peacefully and painlessly left this plane of worldly existence on December 23, 2020. H M was born at home in the Chavies, Community on May 13, 1938. He was the son of late Dr. Horace McWhorter Everett, Sr. and Lucille Sutterlin Everett. He is survived by his wife of 59 years Ann Maxie Everett, his brother Ben Dale Everett (Terry), his two children Alan Dale Everett (Julia) and Kimberly Jo Everett (Kip Cole) and two nieces Tara Hylton and Anna Pohl (Andy).
Dad was lover of knowledge. He loved readingâ¦books were always staked around his chair. He instilled the love of books in us, his children by reading his favorite stories to us. This included Beowulf, Jungle Book and The Adventures Tom Sawyerâ¦with double emphasize on the two chapters âThe Pinch Bug and His Preyâ and âThe Cat and the Pain Killer.â Laughter would flow with Dad narrating the dog and the catâs antics. There were,
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By Dian Schaffhauser
12/10/20
An Historically Black University has chosen to upgrade its wireless networking capacity through a managed service. Founded in 1875, Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University (AAMU) recently announced that it had selected Apogee to implement a new high-speed WiFi network in its four colleges and at a 972-acre off-campus agricultural research station. Apogee is a managed services provider that focuses solely on higher education.
The network will work alongside an existing residential network. Apogee will also provide 24/7 support for users via phone, chat, text and e-mail and produce real-time location analytics to help the university understand facility usage. One of our 2021 strategic goals was to drastically improve our WiFi offering to meet the needs of the university in a world that is more connected than ever before, said Andrew Hugine, president of the institution, in a press release. Our mobility dependence has increased exponentially o