Salvaging the dignity of history
Updated 8:00 AM;
Most people react to the past based on what little bit of history they were taught in school. Or what they have seen in movies.
That’s why when people consider the South they tend to only think of two dates – 1865 and 1965.
Visitors who roll into Montgomery or Selma on tour buses sometimes arrive believing those were the only two time periods to ever pass through the Black Belt.
Both were significant. They both influenced and shaped the nation. They helped permanently define both cities.
Unfortunately, school curriculums can’t easily teach the civil and social progress that have been made as history has evolved.
THOMASVILLE â A Thomasville woman charged with being part of a self-styled militia that organized members to storm the Capitol Jan. 6 is a former High Point Police Department officer.
Laura Steele, 52, and five other individuals who authorities say are associated with a group called the Oath Keepers, which includes many former military and law enforcement members, were arrested and charged last week for their roles in the insurrection. Among the others charged is Steeleâs brother, Graydon Young, 54, of Florida, who encouraged her to join Oath Keepers in the days before going to Washington, according to the indictment.
Although a total of only nine Oath Keepers have been charged so far, the indictment indicates that more than 40 came to Washington on one bus from North Carolina.
THOMASVILLE â A panel of 12 contestants from North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia will compete for the top prize Sunday as part of the 20th Martin Luther King Social Action Committee Oratorical Contest, beginning at 3:30 p.m.
Each year, the committee raises scholarship funds to be distributed among the contestâs winners. Planning this yearâs festivities during a pandemic has created unique challenges for founder Dr. George B. Jackson and his wife, Dr. Pamela Jackson, who serves as dean of students for the oratorical contest.
Despite those challenges, the total scholarship award this year is $17,000, compared with last yearâs $14,000.
For at least a decade, some state legislators have been trying to eliminate the requirement for local governments to post legal notices in local newspapers, opting instead to put such
Memories from an old brown bag
Updated Jan 30, 2021;
I don’t know what makes memories fall on us. Sometimes we go looking for them – driving down some old road we used to know, or talking our way back down memory lane. But other times it’s as if we just wake up one day and there they are back.
I have, as many of you have already probably suspected, a public education. I was never particularly outstanding at anything. Really I was barely average. I was terrible at that physical fitness test they tried to get us to perform every year. I don’t think they do that anymore. They hardly even do school at this point, so I’m relatively sure there is no fitness standard anybody has to get stressed out trying to adhere to.