The Druid Hills community lost a legend last week with the passing of Bobby Martin Sr. The 86-year-old Martin was not only a longtime, award-winning champion in rodeo and English competition styles in the day, but he owns Big M Stables just off Statesville Road near downtown.
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before it goes to the president. three elementary school teachers in hot water over a black history month parade. the three l.a. teachers are suspended now without pay after they had students carry pictures of o.j. simpson, dennis rodman, and ru paul during the wadsworth avenue elementary school parade. community members are calling the teachers who are white racist and have accused them of making a mockery of the event. an ethnic diversity team has been sent to the school district to work on their black history month lesson plans. and those are your headlines today. all right. and of course, big story once again and brian knows this, he s down in washington, d.c. i m sure he got an earful last night at his event. the president of the united states yesterday went into the east room of the white house and said to a gathering of doctors, once again, they showed up in those lab coats. what are the odds? he said look, we ve talked about this long enough, i want you to go out there and
hero. three los angeles elementary school teachers have been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into a decision they made for black history month which ended last week. teachers are accused of giving children portraits of o.j. simpson, dennis rodman and rupaul to carry in the black history month parade. the teachers, who are all white, are accused by some of mocking black heroes. the school was 90% latino. most were given more appropriate role model heroes like nelson mandela. some want the teachers fired for the choice of rupaul. quote, these are not the people we want our young people to emulate or believe this these people represent the best of the african-american community. it s hard for the naacp to believe this was a mistake. quotes one parents who was surprised to see them as black heroes. she said, quote, i kind of laughed at it. i wasn t offended. one parent noted in the story