Updated: 8:28 PM CST January 27, 2021
DALLAS Dallas Independent School District says a new secondary school opening in the fall of 2021 will be named after Dallas social justice advocate and pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church Frederick Douglass Haynes III.
The school will be on the campus of Paul Quinn College and will serve students in grades 6-12, with plans to become an international baccalaureate program, the district says.
“Educational inequity leads to poverty and poverty leads to violence. What you’re seeing here today is the school board addressing inequities in Dallas,” Dallas ISD Trustee Maxie Johnson said during Wednesday’s announcement. “Our kids who once thought they couldn’t go to college will be able to earn up to 40 credit hours and transition right into Paul Quinn College or any college of their choice.”
If former University of Wyoming Cowboy John Allen leads the Buffalo Bills to Super Bowl LV in 2021 he will join an illustrious list of players with Wyoming roots that have made appearances in the annual championship game. The Bills will take on defending champs the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Championship game Sunday (January 24).
Over the years, several players with Wyoming ties have represented the Cowboy State on the biggest stage in sports. 13 former players, either Wyoming natives or University of Wyoming alums, have gone on to win the Super Bowl.
In Super Bowl 53 in 2019, University of Wyoming alum Jacob Hollister became the 13th Super Bowl champion with Wyoming roots when the New England Patriots beat the Los Angeles Rams.
Some University Heads
McGILL
William. Peterson, M.A., LL.D., C.M.G., Principal of McGill University, is a native of the Scottish capital, where he was born in 1856. He has had a distinguished academic career. Educated at the Edinburgh High School and the University, of Edinburgh, he graduated in 1875 with high honors in classics. He subsequently studied at the University of Gottingen, and in 1876 won a scholarship at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. For two years he was Assistant Professor of Humanity at Edinburgh. Thereafter he held the position of Principal of University College, Dundee, until in May, 1895, he was chosen to succeed Sir J. W. Dawson at McGill.
Covid-19 kills Parang 2020 Written by Rawle Patterson (0 votes)
By sometime this weekend the sister isles, nation and the world would official learn that there will be no Parang Festival this year.
According to an executive member, the deci-sion was taken to officially call-off the 2020 event after efforts to convince the various bands to participate in a virtual event this year failed to receive the necessary support.
The once vibrant and heavily in demand festival, suffered in recent years from poor management which resulted in a steady decline in participating bands.
However, in the last two years, there were some positive signs of resurgence through the direct involvement of the Festivals Board and a new management committee often referred to as an executive.
Lee Ivory Bonner McDaniel
Today we celebrate Mrs. Lee Ivory Bonner McDaniel.
This ninth daughter of Mr. Erastus “Rassie” and Mrs. Lula B. Slaton Bonner was born in Ruston, Louisiana, on March 23, 1930, the eleventh of twelve children in her family.
She departed this life during the morning hours of December 22, 2020 in Lake Charles, Louisiana having dedicated her life to giving.
At an early age she became a member of Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Ruston, Louisiana and accepted Christ as her Lord and Savior. Growing up during the Great Depression in a large family living in rural North Louisiana, she witnessed how faith, discipline and love conquers adversity.