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A FATHER’S DAY TRIBUTE
I Learned Public Service from the Best! A FATHER’S DAY TRIBUTE — by Helen R. Caulton Harris Commissioner, Springfield Department of Health and Human Services — My great-grandparents, Charles and Helen (Moses) Caulton, were sharecroppers from Moultrie, Georgia, who came to Springfield in 1920 along with their three children, Sunnie, Alberta and Vessie. In 1927, Sunnie…
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AF-AM News bits – March 2018
WORD OF THE MONTH: Pipsqueak, “…an insignificant or contemptible person or thing…” (Oxford Dictionary) A NOTE TO THE BLIND As a matter of information for the unknowing and still maturing, I have been in contention with Raymond Jordan for legitimate ideological reasons for decades and will remain so for whatever years we have remaining, which…
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Red Sox Are For Real!
—-By Frederick A. Hurst—- State Representative Bud Williams introduced me to Red Sox President and CEO Sam Kennedy at an anti-racism event that Kennedy was holding at Fenway Park with representatives of all of the Massachusetts major league sports teams. It was just one more in a series of events promoted by the Red Sox…
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Af-Am News bits – December 2017
I LIKE DONNA BRAZILE AGAIN I’m beginning to like Donna Brazile again. She turned me off with that episode in which she leaked a debate question to candidate Hillary Clinton. Up to that point, she always seemed to be a smooth, informed and powerful Black woman whose background was not unlike my own. She recently…
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AF-AM News bits – February 2018
TO MY MORE TIMID ASSOCIATES “If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.” – Frederick…









