Celebrating Ireland s working-class writers in The 32
The 32: An Anthology of Irish Working Class Voices is a new book that celebrates working-class voices from across Ireland. Jenny Lee finds out more from Belfast novelist Paul McVeigh, who edits the collection 24 July, 2021 01:00 Launching The 32 are, pictured left to right, Lisburn writer, Marc Gregg, editor Paul McVeigh and Belfast writer Riley Johnston. Picture by Brian Morrison I d been a schoolteacher who taught in a community school on the Northside and who d self-published a book, and had metamorphosed into an internationally known author whose name appeared in the Guardian and the New York Times. I d crossed over a line; I d become a useful accessory.
IHSAA Boys Track and Field Regionals 1-4 Meet Previews
With sectionals behind us, and regionals this week, the competition will begin to get faster and faster!
Boys Regionals is set for tomorrow tonight across the state!
MileSplit Indiana is previewing all 8 Boys Regionals!
View meet previews for one through four down below!
Regional 1 - Crown Point
Boys Regional #1 at Crown Point features four runners that ran under 11 seconds in the 100-meter dash at sectionals last week. The leader of that group is Michigan City s Esau Haynes. Haynes put the state on notice with a sectional-winning time of 10.68, the fastest 100 in Indiana this year.
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Derek Chauvin found guilty, and Petersburg reacts. Here is what you are saying about it.
From relieved to a clarion call for justice, everyone says the verdict is not the end of the road but just another stop in the path to racial equality
The Progress-Index
The Petersburg area exhaled with relief late Tuesday afternoon as a Minneapolis jury convicted former police officer Derek M. Chauvin on two counts of murder and one count of manslaughter in the Memorial Day 2020 death of George Floyd.
Initial reaction from Petersburg area leaders and citizens is that while they applaud the verdicts as correct, that does not mean that racial inequity in justice has suddenly been solved. Del. Lashrecse D. Aird, D-Petersburg, who led several portions of the Democratic-led police-reform package through the General Assembly this year and last, told The Progress-Index that the work is just beginning.