(Bloomberg Opinion) As the nation reflects on the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre, in which a White mob razed a prosperous Black community and killed many of its inhabitants, conversations have focused on the economic costs of such racial violence.
Black & White Alabama neighbors team up when stalker strikes
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Eva Wilson is a Black woman stalked by a racist who creeps into her Huntsville yard at night in a mask and a hoodie. Madelyne McNab is the white neighbor next door trying to help her.
The two have become friends over their long, shared fight against what they say has been a sluggish police response to a stalker who leaves things on Wilson’s car like toy monkeys wearing nooses. The police are doing better now, they say.
Wilson and McNab live in Merrimack Village, a neighborhood built in the early 1900′s for workers of the Merrimack cotton mill. Streets there are named in alphabetical order starting with Alpine, and the big house for the mill boss still sits at the center of the neighborhood.
For someone who got a late start chasing turkeys, Ray Jones of Huntsville has spent the last 60 years catching up.
In fact, Jones, 86, reached and surpassed a milestone this season by bagging the 400th and 401st turkeys of his career.
The reason he got off to such a slow start was because he lived in far north Alabama where turkeys were scarce for most of his life.
âWe really didnât have any turkeys north of Birmingham when I was a young boy,â Jones said. âThey had all been killed during the Depression. We hunted squirrels. We didnât even have any deer.â
Military May Revisit Making COVID-19 Vaccines Mandatory After FDA Grants Approval
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, visits with service members assisting the Federal Emergency Management Agency COVID vaccination site at California State University, Los Angeles, Feb. 24, 2021. (DoD/U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jack Sanders).
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The Pentagon has not yet decided whether to require service members to get inoculated against COVID-19, once the Food and Drug Administration grants full approval for the vaccines.
But in a briefing with reporters Monday, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby indicated full FDA approval could change how the military s leadership looks at this issue.