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AFAM Newsbits – June 2018
YAWKEY WAY NO MORE Two weeks ago Boston’s Public Improvement Commission voted to change the name of Yawkey Way back to its original name, Jersey Street. The offensive signs that became an ever present reminder of the Red Sox racist past under its now-deceased past owner, Tom Yawkey, were removed and replaced on the morning…
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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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