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LOCAL NEWS | APRIL 30, 2021April 30, 2021 in News
Pennsylvania’s Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) has announced a $1.3 million investment to support local programs that provide computer skills training to help people find good jobs in the Commonwealth. The Digital Literacy and Workforce Development Grants (DLWDG) of up to $45,000 each promote digital literacy skills for people looking for work, including the ability to search and apply for online jobs. Tuscarora Intermediate Unit #11 (TIU) will develop and implement a program that will enhance digital literacy skills for job seekers in Mifflin County. In Juniata and Perry counties, the grants will specifically target rural citizens.
February 10, 2021
Theodore Tennant photograph that inspired Davidson’s portrait.
The Lewes History Museum will open its doors to a unique exhibition combining art and African American history at 6 p.m., Friday, Feb. 12.
Seventeen Men: Portraits of Black Civil War Soldiers provides a rare opportunity for the public to glimpse the lives of men who served in the 25th United States Colored Troops during the American Civil War.
“Ultimately, the goal was to take 17 small, photographic images that had come to me purely by accident and good fortune, and attempt through research, drawing and writing to help people learn each man’s story and visualize the living man,” said author and artist Shayne Davidson.
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Philadelphia’s school buildings are a tribute to its past.
That’s true of the structures themselves, some of which date back over a century.
But it’s also a nod to the people commemorated in the names of those school buildings. Those names in ways big and small help tell the city’s history.
The vast majority of public schools in the city are named after white men. (The school-namers of yore were partial to Union Civil War soldiers and former school board officials.)
Still, in a city that didn’t have a statue of a Black person on public land until 2017, school buildings are among the rare public spaces with any echo of Philadelphia’s Black history.