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By Joseph Allen
For Waymond Jackson Jr. and his family, July 13 was always a sad anniversary.
July 13, 1985, was the date his father, Leondras Waymond Jackson Sr., died in a motel swimming pool.
For 34 years, Jackson and his mother and sister saw the date pass and it reminded them of loss. Now, the date celebrates new life and legacy.
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Tamika Palmer, the mother of Breonna Taylor, right, listens to a news conference, Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, in Louisville, Ky. Family attorney Ben Crump is calling for the Kentucky attorney general to release the transcripts from the grand jury that decided not to charge any of the officers involved in the Black woman s death. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
What’s left to say about 2020 except that it’s over. But what a year with the well-chronicled coronavirus pandemic that killed more than 300,000; racial unrest that created division in across many communities and a presidential election that was over until it wasn’t. And there was plenty of more to a year that goes down as one of the most memorable in recent history. Here’s some of what happened.