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Opal Lee is a community activist from Fort Worth, Texas, who has been campaigning to make Juneteenth a national holiday since 2016.
Mariah Campbell is a rising senior studying journalism at Texas Southern University.
A few years ago, in the middle of a political science class, my professor started talking about something called Juneteenth, a holiday that has roots in Galveston, Texas, 51 miles from where I sat at my university in Houston.
Nearly 400 KCSD employees receive first dose of Covid-19 vaccine
Today, January 23, 2021, nearly 400 Klamath County School District employees received their first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.
Posted: Jan 23, 2021 7:03 PM
Posted By: Brett Taylor
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore On Saturday, January 23, 2021, nearly 400 employees within the Klamath County School District(KCSD) received their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.
Those nearly 400 Klamath County School District staff included – teachers, cooks, bus drivers, secretaries, and others, while the vaccine that they received was their first dose of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccinations happened at a clinic at the Klamath County Fairgrounds.
Some areas in Klamath County have already returned back to almost a full schedule on in-person classes, while school districts in more populated areas have returned to a hybrid model.