As the academic year winds down, schools are already looking toward the next one. It’s bound to be more normal, but there's also bound to be thousands of new teachers in Oklahoma’s classrooms.
Multiple organizations in Cumberland County are helping tell the county’s history through the Freedmen’s Bureau Transcription Project.
The Freedmen’s Bureau Transcription Project is an effort to transcribe the Freedmen’s Bureau records. The bureau was a government department that was in charge of supporting previously enslaved persons in their transition to freedom and citizenship, according to a news release from the Cumberland County library.
The Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of African American History and Culture has worked with the North Carolina African American Heritage Commission and the State Library of North Carolina to shine a light on a hidden part of history in the Freedmen’s Bureau, formally known as the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, the release said.
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Faith Phillips will fill the vacant position of Cumberland County library director beginning May 10.
Phillips, 33, is currently the manager of the Durham County Main Library. Over the past eight years, she has worked for the library systems in both Wake and Durham counties in various positions including youth services humanities coordinator, library assistant and team librarian.
Within those positions. Phillips said, she created multiple programs and projects including after-school programs, storytime programs for kids, STEM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) activities and a round table talk, which gave youth an opportunity to talk openly about uncomfortable topics. I feel like there are so many pieces that have prepared me for this job, she said. . It s just learning how to work with a team and growing confidence as a leader and learning strategies and tools that I can take into my job, as the director, to see how to move the libraries forward and to ex
Hurricane Nate Makes Landfall on the Gulf Coast, Then Weakens
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Sunday, October 8th, 2017.Hurricane Nate Makes Landfall on the Gulf Coast, Then WeakensThe state authorizes officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which is already responding to the season’s other hurricanes, to coordinate disaster relief efforts in the affected counties there. Advertisement Continue reading the main story The storm’s swift approach startled this stretch of the Gulf Coast, where many had hoped they might be able to […]
The state authorizes officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which is already responding to the season’s other hurricanes, to coordinate disaster relief efforts in the affected counties there.