RACHEL MAHONEY
The (Lynchburg) News & Advance
One by one, the headstones in Bedfordâs cemeteries have been looking a little brighter. As sheâs painstakingly scrubbed off the moss and lichen, one local woman has found intriguing stories in the lives they memorialize â and her passion has recently gone viral.
It usually starts with a gentle scrape of some of the most caked-on growth. Then, Alicia Williams spritzes the stones with a special solution and uses a soft-bristled brush to scrub it down, sometimes repeating the process multiple times.
And voila! The visual result is oh-so-satisfying: grizzled headstones whose names have been rendered illegible over time come out looking as good as new.
Amazing Audiobooks (#AA2021) Nominees Round Up, December 16 Edition
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We Are Not Free by Traci Chee; narrated by: Scott Keiji Takeda, Dan Woren, Ryan Potter, Ali Fumiko, Sophie Oda, Andrew Kishino, Christopher Naoki Lee, Grace Rolek, Erika Aishii, Brittany Ishibashi, Kurt Sanchez Kanazawa, and Terry Kitagawa
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780358343561
Fourteen Japanese American teens are cruelly taken from their San Francisco homes to internment camps purportedly to protect the U.S. west coast from Japanese espionage or sabotage during World War II. The Nissei’s stories start the same, but have many different outcomes as they make their choices and too many choices are made for them.
Pasco PTA looking for answers on database that labels students as potential criminals
Pasco superintendent defends data-sharing program
and last updated 2020-12-15 23:17:01-05
PASCO COUNTY, Fla. â The Pasco County Parent-Teacher association say they want to know everything they can about a program described as secretiveâ involving at-risk students.
This comes after a recent Tampa Bay Times investigation reported saying kids and parents arenât even aware they are on a list used by the sheriffâs office to predict future criminal behavior.
âMy initial reaction was let s get to the bottom of this, said PTA Council President Alicia Williams.
Black Employees Sue City Over Workplace Discrimination Three workers in San Francisco, Calif., have filed a class-action lawsuit against three city agencies, alleging they were paid less, denied promotions and subjected to harassment all due to their race. Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle | December 10, 2020 | News
(TNS) Three Black San Francisco employees filed a class-action lawsuit Wednesday against the city, accusing agencies of failing to provide Black workers with equal employment opportunities and prevent discrimination.
The plaintiffs work in the Municipal Transportation Agency, the Department of Public Health and the Public Utilities Commission. The lawsuit alleges they were paid less than non-Black colleagues, denied promotions due to their race and subjected to racist comments, harassment and treatment, including an anonymous note that called one a monkey.
Black S.F. employees file racial discrimination lawsuit against city [San Francisco Chronicle]
Dec. 10 Three Black San Francisco employees filed a class-action lawsuit Wednesday against the city, accusing agencies of failing to provide Black workers with equal employment opportunities and prevent discrimination.
The plaintiffs work in the Municipal Transportation Agency, the Department of Public Health and the Public Utilities Commission. The lawsuit alleges they were paid less than non-Black colleagues, denied promotions due to their race and subjected to racist comments, harassment and treatment, including an anonymous note that called one a “monkey.”
“My morale is in the gutter,” said plaintiff Keka Robinson-Luqman, an SFMTA employee who said she has been the victim of racist remarks and unequal pay. Lower income has hindered her and husband, an agency bus operator, from saving enough to buy a house and putting their daughter in full-time preschool, she said.