Writer and librarian Vaunda Micheaux Nelson has made something of a specialty of bringing hitherto under-recognized African American heroes into prominence. In Small Shoes, Great Strides: How Three Brave Girls Opened Doors to School Equality, Nelson and illustrator Alex Bostic celebrate three very young heroes first graders in the fight to desegregate a New Orleans public school in 1960.
A son was sentenced on Tuesday for communications fraud, after he represented to a customer that the family s camping trailer business could fulfill his order and accepted a down payment. The father was sentenced earlier after pleading guilty.