State Rep. Sandra Scott, D-Rex, recently introduced House Bill 9, legislation that would authorize the state to develop guidelines specifically for mental and behavioral telehealth services for students in Georgia
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Free Frank McWorter was the first Black person to legally found a community in America in the 1830s. McWorter was an enterprising enslaved Kentucky man who purchased freedom for his pregnant wife, Lucy, then his own, by manufacturing and selling saltpeter. He moved his family to the free state of Illinois in 1831. He bought 80 acres for $100 and founded New Philadelphia, a promising city of brotherly love in Pike County, 20 miles from the slave state of Missouri.
These Are the Best Albums of All Time by Black Artists
By Alexander Raeburn, Stacker News
AND Nicole Caldwell, Stacker News
On 12/31/20 at 9:00 AM EST
There would be no American music as we know it without the contributions of Black artists. Since the first African music was brought over by people in bondage as early as the 15th century, Black singers and musicians have had a hand in every aspect of American music s evolution. From country-western, the foundation of which was banjo music from Africa, to rock n roll, first played by a Black woman on electric guitar in 1938, each genre of American music has a Black artist (or many) who helped create it.