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Make or Break It Time for the Summer 2025 Growing Season
Welcome back to Can You Dig It?—your first place for quick tips on growing food, herbs, and a few things in between. Before we jump into this month’s tips, be sure to check out the events coming in August and the fall. Seek out the best information always to improve your ability to remove any…
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Our Communities Need Us
Members of a community have a sense of trust, belonging, safety, and caring for each other. A community can be about the neighborhood you grew up in or live in now, your church family, friends, or other groups and associations. In short, we’re all part of a community. And as such, it’s important that we…
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The Crisis of Power: Navigating the Tensions Between Branches in President Trump’s Second Term
President Trump’s second term in office has been marked by tension and debate over the balance of power among the three branches of government. During this term, his administration has significantly expanded the reach and scope of the executive branch, challenging the well-established principles of the separation of powers. Additionally, the President’s often harsh and…
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Reading Frederick Douglass Together Springfield 2025
For the past four years, Dr. M. Toni McComb along with Martin Luther King Jr. Family Services has hosted a reading of Frederick Douglass’ speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”. The speech, originally orated in 1852 in Rochester NY, still holds significant value today.
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Black August: A Reflection of Resistance and Remembrance
Black August is more than a month—it is a solemn commemoration, a historical reckoning, and a spiritual call to action. Originating in the 1970s within the California prison system, Black August honors the lives and sacrifices of Black political prisoners, freedom fighters, and the countless individuals who have resisted systemic oppression in the struggle for…












