Southland College Prep Charter High School to Host Free Vaccination Clinic Wed. July 28
Students and administration from Southland College Prep. (PHOTO SUPPLIED)
Richton Park, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Southland College Prep Charter High School will host a free vaccination clinic to prevent COVID-19 on Wednesday, July 28 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the school, 4601 Sauk Trail, Richton Park, Illinois.
Anyone age 12 or older is eligible to receive Pfizer or Moderna vaccine at no cost during the event. The clinic will be conducted by the staff of Emerge Med Staffing led by Richard Watson, M.D., FACEP, its CEO.
“We’re not out of the woods yet. Residents of the south suburbs of Chicago have barely reached a 50 percent vaccination rate. Without vaccination, there is a significant chance to contract COVID-19, whose rates are rising again,” said Dr. Watson.
Not every person of color in the South was enslaved.
It is a point Marvin Tupper Jones, the executive director of the nonprofit volunteer preservation and research organization Chowan Discovery Group, explains in detail. A native of what he describes as the Winton Triangle in Hertford County, Jones traces his heritage to the late 17
th century.
Marvin T. Jones
“My oldest named ancestor was from India. William Weaver shows up around 1690,” he told Coastal Review. Weaver was the father of biracial children who were free.
“These were not enslaved people,” he said.
Citing the late Dr. Ira Berlin, a scholar and historian who studied slavery and race in America, Jones said that at the time it was not uncommon for European men and women to have children with partners of a different race. A professor of history at the University of Maryland, Berlin died in 2018. His books and research are widely credited with changing perceptions of the Black experience in Colonial and antebell
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VSU set to have five guest speakers for spring 2021 commencement
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On May 7 and 8, VSU will have five guest speakers at the commencement who are healthcare workers to honor frontline workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
John Crawford, vice president for university advancement, says the five speakers are VSU graduates.
One of the speakers are psychiatric nurse practitioner Nishben Patel, who received her master’s degree at VSU in 2018 and has recently been accepted into VSU’s Doctor of Nursing Practice program.
The second speaker is cardiac surgeon Dr. Joe Johnson, who graduated from VSU and received his MD at the Medical College of Georgia.
Colorado Law Professor Suzette Malveaux Could Become The First Black Woman Appointed To The 10 Circuit Federal Court
If selected, her appointment would likely be historic for the Black LGBTQ community. Suzette Malveaux | Photo: University of Colorado Law School
Suzette Malveaux. Her name might not ring a bell, but her face might. She’s sometimes mistaken for her twin sister with whom she bears a striking resemblance; Emmy award-winning CNN National Correspondent Suzanne. Malveaux, 54, of Denver, however, is a bonafide badass in her own right, in the world of law. There’s been recent buzz that the Harvard University and New York University Law-educated former civil rights attorney-turned-law-professor’s name may be being circulated by the Biden administration as a contender to fill one of two federal judgeship vacancies on the Tenth Circuit Federal Court, which covers Colorado, Kansas, Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico and parts of Oklahoma.