Veronica Bailey, founder and CEO of Meet Me at the Court, was honored on Wednesday when part of the street near the St. Louis neighborhood basketball court at the corner of Lester Street and Columbia Avenue was dedicated in her honor. Her brother, Pastor Cleveland Bailey, traveled from Chicago to see his sister s recognition by Mayor Veronica Smith-Creer. Carmello Brown and Daniel Frazier, two founding youth in Meet Me at the Court, also attended to help unveil a new sign denoting Bailey s contribution to the area. Veronica Bailey brought along with her photographs of her late sister, Sharion Bailey Whitlock, whose life inspired Bailey to start Meet Me at the Court, a nonprofit focused on getting local youth involved in positive activities in 2013. She also had photos of their late parents, Margie Bailey and Robert Lee Bailey, from whom she and her other siblings learned the values they continue to carry today. "It s just a blessing to be a blessing to others. As long as the Lord
Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth takes the blame in the history books, but he was part of a larger cast of characters that hoped to decapitate the Union government after the South lost the Civil War.
A few months ago, a woman in Pittsburgh asked her boyfriend to accompany her to her appointment at Planned Parenthood. When she had gone previously, she confided, she had been accosted by a group of protestors who wrongly presumed she was going to get an abortion. She had in fact been going for routine medical care, but the incident stayed with her and left her rattled.
he was different to your bootlegger. apples were privately printed use of making hard cider vinegar. he wasn t selling apples. it was the dollar store business. pile them high and watch them play. sold them for pennies. not a bad model. any other questions click let me say just one little pitch at the end. i want to close by saying how lucky i ve been at this book, let a genie wasn t for my publisher simon & schuster simon & schuster, editor alice mayhew were bound and determined to be not only good, the beautiful boat. i think i think the cover is a beautiful cover. they did everything just right. the maps add enormously to the story and best of all for my point of view, they re in an original illustrations in this book there absolute magnificent and all done by my daughter. and so, thank you for enduring this. i appreciate it very much. [applause] arthur howard means looking at the lifeless land speculator and evangelist john chapman who became known as johnny appleseed.
150 years ago today the firing on fort sumter in charleston harbor launched for bloody terrible years we know as the american civil war. we realize the impact of that conflict has been felt in almost every area of our culture since. it has shaped our nation in ways, good and bad, and remains a focal point for controversy, discussion, and dispute for millions of people. if you have any doubt about that, consider that just yesterday the placement of a historical plaque denoting the union and burning of atlanta during the civil war was protested by the naacp because its location in the middle of atlantis civil rights district was deemed to be insensitive. the war may be 150 years old, but the feelings that it generated are as fresh as this morning s pollen. so today, this nation of officially begins the commemoration of the civil war sesquicentennial. it is in observance we begin here at the center for the book earlier this year with the intent of finding ways of examining the