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By Rich Flowers
rflowers@athensreview.com Feb 5, 2021
St. Paul School was educational trailblazer
The history of Henderson County is seeded with stories of Black educators who endured hardships to equip students with the skills and understanding they would need as adults.
James Williams Smothers founded The St. Paul Training School in Caney City almost a century ago. Stories in the
Huntsville Item and
Athens Review survive to help piece together the history of the school founded to pursue the industrial arts, develop social skills and increase knowledge.
A 1947 story in the
Review is the account of a severe storm that hit the school causing major damage to the facility and crops that were grown on the site.
Formerly the diversity director of
McCarthy Holding’s Southern Region, Kamecia Mason has been selected as the firm’s vice president of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. In this new role, she will build upon and expand significant company DE&I efforts already in place to evolve the firm’s national internal and external strategy and implementation.
Kamecia Mason, McCarthy Holdings
Based in Dallas, Mason will work in close collaboration with regional diversity directors across the company and will report directly to CEO Ray Sedey.
“McCarthy is committed to sustaining a culture that delivers great experiences for everyone, and appointing a national vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion is an important step forward as we continue to extend and accelerate our overall focus in this area,” Sedey said. “McCarthy must have an inclusive environment built on the foundation of opportunity for all without barriers. This encompasses not only our employees but also ou
Fort Worth Weekly
Forever Changed
Nonviolent protests, a deadly pandemic, and divisive elections shook Fort Worth in 2020, and there’s no going back to business as usual.
By Edward Brown
Photo by Jason Brimmer.
Behind Dickies Arena, and largely hidden from passersby, several lines of cars crept toward dozens of volunteers who were stocking trunks with frozen turkeys, orange juice, and other foodstuffs as part of a mobile pantry by the Tarrant Area Food Bank (TAFB).
“Most of these folks, around 40%, are brand-new to our services,” said Julie Butner, president and CEO of the TAFB. “These are folks who held two or three jobs and lost one. These are working families, but they don’t have enough money to meet their food needs.”
2 gravestones with swastikas removed from veterans cemetery in Texas
A flag waves in a sea of headstones at the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio, Thursday, May 21, 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, no public services will be held and the tradition of placing flags at each headstone has been canceled. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
by: Harmeet Kaur and Amanda Jackson, CNN
Posted:
Dec 26, 2020 / 08:22 PM EST
(CNN) Two headstones inscribed with Nazi swastikas that mark the graves of German prisoners of war have been removed from a veteran’s cemetery in Texas.
The headstones at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio feature an iron cross with a swastika at its center, along with an inscription in German that reads: “He died far from his home for the Leader (Führer), people and fatherland.” The headstones mark the graves of Pvt. Georg Forst and Pvt. Alfred P. Kafka, two POWs who died in Texas in 1943.
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