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.-The Ohr-OKeefe Museum of Art in Biloxi, Mississippi announced a major donation of 50 artworks by Los Angeles-based, advocate and collector Gordon W. Bailey. The transformative gift features African American artists Leroy Almon, David Butler, Richard Dial, Thornton Dial, Minnie Evans, Roy Ferdinand, Sandy Hall, Clementine Hunter, Charlie Lucas, Juanita Rogers, Sulton Rogers, Welmon Sharlhorne, Herbert Singleton, Willie White, and Purvis Young; Native Americans, Silas and Bertha Claw, Betty Manygoats, Elizabeth Manygoats, Wallace Nez, and Lorraine Williams; and Southern potters, Burlon Craig, Cheever Meaders, and Lanier Meaders. On behalf of the board and the OKeefe family, I would like to express my deepest appreciation to Mr. Bailey for making this generous donation of important artworks, said Jeffrey H. OKeefe, In addition to enriching the museums permanent collection by adding Native American an . More
(NEWARK, NJ) On April 29, 2021, Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka announced that the City of Newark is calling on Newark residents to share their feedback on proposals submitted by the five finalists selected to design the new Harriet Tubman Monument. Five critically acclaimed artists: Abigail DeVille, Dread Scott, Jules Arthur, Nina Cooke John, and Vinnie Bagwell, were chosen by a jury to submit their designs.
THE MP for Ynys Môn has named in Parliament two innocent Anglesey postmasters who were victims of a large-scale miscarriage of justice involving a faulty IT system. Virginia Crosbie said it was important that Margery Lorraine Williams and Noel Thomas were mentioned in the House of Commons as being innocent of any crime after their convictions were quashed by the Court of Appeal last week. A total of 39 postmasters had their fraud and theft convictions overturned by the court after they were wrongly convicted due to the IT system installed by the Post Office called Horizon. The UK Government has launched an inquiry into what went wrong. It is thought more than 700 postmasters were wrongly convicted of offences between 2000 and 2014.
The harrowing stories of the North Wales three falsely convicted in Post Office Horizon scandal
Noel Thomas, Margery Lorraine Williams and Damian Owen from Anglesey all had their convictions quashed by the Court of Appeal today after defects were found in the Post Office s Horizon accounting system
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Former post office worker Noel Thomas, who was convicted of false accounting in 2006, celebrates with his daughter Sian outside the Royal Courts of Justice, London (Image: PA)
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