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WARSAW To celebrate Black History Month, the Wyoming County Chamber of Commerce & Tourism is sharing the unique history that took place within the county.

For example, did you know:

Americas first anti-slavery political party was organized in Wyoming County at the Warsaw Presbyterian Church in 1839.

Wyoming County grew to have the second largest number of conductors or station masters in New York State after Monroe County. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 made it illegal to harbor or help fugitive slaves.

For that reason, the events of the Underground Railroad were shrouded in secrecy. The accounts in Wyoming County were gleaned from the records of town historians, private family letters and known publications.

Though many of the buildings that were involved in the railroad no longer stand, there is sufficient evidence to document the part Wyoming County played in helping escaped slaves find freedom. Called Shooflies, those who played a role in the Underground Railroad often led double lives businessmen by day, conductors at night.

They spoke in code: a depot was a safe house; freight or packages were slaves. They built hidden boxes in wagons, trap doors in floors, false walls and tunnels in their homes and barns.

The Underground Railroad followed waterways where escaped slaves could hide, sometimes using reeds to breathe underwater.

The watery refuge caused the hunting dogs tracking the runaways to lose the scent. Slaves learned where these waterways came out and they followed signs, sometimes the constellations in the night sky sometimes the patterned squares of quilts hung on fences and trees pointed the way.

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With Vice President Kamala Harris election, she conquered many firsts. Now, Black women and girls have someone to look up to and theyre speaking about what it means to them.

As the world watched the inauguration, so did little girls here in Southwest Florida. They noticed that shes the first Vice President who looks like them.

Amyria-Rose is one of those little girls. That makes me feel happy, she said. Full of joy!

Chymora Richey is eight-years-old. I was happy because she was the first Black Woman.

Autumn Small, is seen and she says she appreciates the solidarity. She stands up for other women, Small said.

Seven-year-old Autumn Small said that watching Kamala Harris become the first Black and South Asian woman elected as Vice President was such a powerful moment that she couldnt wrap her head around it.

I did watch some of it but it got too interesting and then my head started filling about too much about her and I forgot about math and reading at school, Small said.

Then she got to thinking and dreaming about what she could become.

I would love to have a Black girl presidentas president because its giving me an opportunity to be a president, said Small.

WINK News reporter Breana Ross asked Autumn if she wants to be President or a government official when she grows up.

Kinda but I dont want to fill out paperwork, Autumn said.

As these little girls watched history be made, their moms watched with them, both proudly and emotionally. Finally, their daughter got to see a different world than they saw. One that exists without limits placed on girls and particularly little Black girls.

Vasha Tolbert is Chymoras Aunt and Charlies mom. We do have a right to dream big and seeing those dreams being fulfilled. Thats a great step forward and thats a conversation Im now being able to have with my daughter and my niece, Tolbert said.

Sheretta Toomer is Amyria-Roses mother.I am beautiful. I am smart. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. I am all things good and I will succeed, Toomer said.

With Harris taking office, Toomer says she believes her daughter has a new reason to believe she will succeed.

I think that it gives all little girls hope that little girls can be whatever they want to be. Its not only men now. It opens the door for a girl and I think thats priceless, she said through tears.

And, of course, another reason to be proud during Black History Month. History is in the making. Its not just whats happened before us. Its whats happening before us right now in the moment, Toomer said.

This is a moment little girls all over the world will always remember and proves that they can be whatever they want to be.

The girls also told Breana that they arent sure what they want to be when they grow up. But, their moms say having a role model in the White House gives them hope and gives their girls the confidence they can be whatever they want to be.

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TYLER Brookshire Grocery Co. (BGC) has a proud heritage which dates back to1928 and has published a book which shares its more than 92 years of history titled From Cotton Pickerto Store Keeper.

I am excited to have our story shared with our partners, customers and communities, said BradBrookshire, chairman and CEO for Brookshire Grocery Co. My grandfather wholeheartedly believed itwas his God-given calling to serve others through the grocery business, and this book illustrates our 92-year commitment to carrying on his great legacy. Our customers and employee-partners can take greatpride in knowing they play an important role in our incredible story that continues to unfold.

Told from the perspective of long-time employee, Jim Powell, the book shares how BGCs companyfounder W.T. Brookshire, nicknamed Cotton Picker from having worked in his familys fields pickingcotton through his childhood, started the first Brookshires store and built a regional grocery businessthat surpassed everyones wildest dreams. Rich with local and Texas history, the BGC story features thepersonal experiences of BGC partners and the many innovations in the food industry throughout thedecades. Customers and partners will enjoy reading the unforgettable and inspiring book about BGC astory first and foremost about family.

The softcover (paperback) books are being sold for $10 each at all Brookshires, Super 1 Foods, SpringMarket and FRESH by Brookshires stores. All proceeds are being donated to the Brookshire GroceryCompany Partners Care Fund which is a Direct Grant program managed by the United Way of East Texaswhich helps employee-partners who are facing financial hardship due to a qualifying event and, as aresult, do not have the ability to maintain their basic living expenses.

Based in Tyler, BGC is a regional family-owned grocery business that employs close to 16,000individuals throughout Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas. The company operates more than 180 storesunder the Brookshires, Super 1 Foods, FRESH by Brookshires and Spring Market banners, along withthree distribution centers and corporate offices.

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The Cape Ann Museum will be hosting three outdoor walking tours throughout the month of February.

"During a time of continued concerns about the spread of COVID-19, the one-and-half hour tours offer participants a safe and engaging way to learn about the rich history of Cape Ann" Ashley Elias, for the Museum, said.

The tours will explore the life and careers of artists Edward Hopper and Fitz Henry Lane in Gloucester and the evolution of religious and spiritual life on Cape Ann.

Saturday, Feb. 13 at 1 p.m.: A guided tour through the Lane Gallery to the Lane House

Saturday, Feb. 20 at 1 p.m.:The evolution of spiritual communities walking tour

Saturday, Feb. 27 at 1 p.m.:"Hopper's Houses" Walking Tour

Each tour is led by a knowledgeable Museum docent who will guide participants along a route through the city focusing on the chosen topic.

Tours are held rain or shine and participants are required to wear face masks. Cost, which includes museum admission, is $10 for CAM members and $20 for non-member.

Register at capeannmuseum.org/events.

A leafy welcome

Backyard Growers haswelcomed Jessica (Jess) Reid to take on the role of program coordinator as they seek to connect peopleand communities through access to healthy food.

"We are elated to welcome Jess to the team at Backyard Growers," said Program Director Corrine Lippie. "She is a dynamic new addition with deep food systems and farming experience. As we grow the Backyard Growers team, we will also be able to deepen our work and impact in the community."

Reid is a Massachusetts native who has worked on agricultural projects everywhere from Vermont to Madagascar. She graduated from Saint Michaels College after studying anthropology with a focus on farming and food systems. Looking to pursue work that combined these interests, she joined the Peace Corps as an Agriculture Extension Agent in Madagascar in 2018.

After two years working abroad, Reid will manage Backyard Growers' garden sites, which includes nine community and partner gardens and nine school garden sites from preschool through high school. She will develop and deliver trainings, workshops and outreach to support a diverse service population of children, seniors, and families as they grow their own food through the organizations community and backyard garden programs.

Working with Lippie, she will also build upon a strong foundation of existing programs and expand the organization's capacity to connect low- to moderate-income individuals and families through new initiatives.

Backyard Growers was founded by Executive Director Lara Lepionka in 2010. Now based at 3 Duncan St. in downtown Gloucester, the organization manages vegetable gardens in all Gloucester Public Schools and connects students from pre-K through high school to experiences that help them shape healthy behaviors. Backyard Growers has also built 400 raised garden beds across Gloucester, providing the resources and training for low- to moderate-income children, families, and seniors to grow their own food.

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COVID-19 is more deadly than most other pandemics that have hit the U.S., except for the one in 1918.

SAN DIEGO COVID-19 is more deadly than most other pandemics that have hit the U.S., except for the one in 1918. As of January 22, coronavirus had killed 410,000 people in the country. The 1918 Flu Pandemic took 675,000 lives, and health experts aren't expecting that many deaths this time.

But COVID has been much, much worse than the 1968 Influenza Pandemic which killed 116,00 people, and the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic which killed 12,469.

When you look at COVID-19 compared to other deadly diseases, it hasnt killed quite as many people. As of January 22nd, COVID's 410,000 people have died in not quite a year. The average death toll in 2020 for Hearth Disease was 655,000 and 606,520 people die of cancer.

Compared to people lost during famous moments in history, COVID is right up there. For instance, in World War II the U.S. lost 405,399 military casualties.

So as President Biden pointed out, on January 22nd we already passed World War II American casualties. 58,000 members of the military were killed in Vietnam, a number that coronavirus deaths surpassed early on.

On September 11, 2,988 people lost their lives in the attack. By mid-January, more people were dying every day in the United States to COVID-19.

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Here are some questions often associated with the famed month.

ATLANTA Black History Month is a time to remember, reflect and celebrate the many contributions people of the Black diaspora have made throughout American history.

Here are some questions often associated with the famed month.

Who is Carter G. Woodson?

Woodson is a Harvard educated historian who started a group now known as the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASL.

Woodson was the son of a former slave and was the second African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard. He formed his group 50 years after the abolishment of slavery in the United States. Woodson is credited as the "Father of Black History." He is also a celebrated member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Incorporated.

How did Black History Month originate?

Woodson's fraternity, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Incorporated, were the creators behind "Negro History and Literature Week," which was initially celebrated in April.

According to pambazuka.org, "The program was hugely popular on Black college campuses across America."

Why February? Why the shortest month of the year?

In 1926, the ASALH chose the second week inFebruary as a time to celebrate the contributions of African Americans. The week was picked to coincide with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, two men who played a prominent role in eliminating slavery.

The selection of February is celebratory and honorary in context - it is not documented as a malicious choice (for it being the shortest month of the year).

How did it become a month-long celebration?

Mayors across the country issued yearly proclamations, but for many around the country, a week wasnt enough. In the 1960s, college campuses extended the celebration to a month.

In 1976, President Gerald Ford officially recognized February as Black History Month. In an effort to make it official in 1976, President Ford named February "Black History Month" in a commemorative speech. In the speech, he urged Americans to "seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of Black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history."

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The mistake people make about history is to treat it as a crutch to prop up their sagging egos. It starts in childhood, when kids meet a parade of airbrushed heroes. But you grow up, or should, and the pretty story learned in second grade must become a jumping-off point, the branch you fly from, toward the stars of what actually occurred.

To stay on that branch, preening your feathers, is to risk ending up an affirmation junkie, able only to process another hit of flattery.

And we know what that looks like.

In September, Donald Trump denounced as a twisted web of lies the simple reality that racism is baked into the crust of our American apple pie. He created the 1776 Commission to promote a happy gloss of American history to help his supporters feel better about themselves.

But before we sluice away the plagiarized slop that Trumps commission squeegeed together, since this is Black History Month, it might be worthwhile to wonder if the inclination to sugar-coat the past is limited to unreflective white folks.

It is not.

Which is too bad. Because once you break free from the need for history to lick your hand like an affectionate pup, you are primed for a clearer understanding of what went on back then and, as a bonus, what is going on now and what might occur in the future.

For example. The election of Harold Washington, Chicagos first Black mayor, is generally presented as a seismic breakthrough and triumph. The power structure that previously served up an unbroken chain of 41 white mayors bowed its head and deferred to the rising might of African American Chicagoans as manifested in the personhood of the joyful Heres Harold! Washington.

Pretty to think so.

What actually happened, as older Chicagoans might remember, is that the incumbent mayor, Jane Byrne, having made a hash of her first and only term, was challenged by Ritchie Daley. They despised each other, and the weakened Democratic Party couldnt impose discipline. So both ran in the February 1983 mayoral primary. Daley got 29.6% of the vote. Byrne, 33.6%. And Washington got 36.3% and won.

Because the two white candidates split the vote. Had either run, alone, theyd have crushed Washington, 2 to 1. As it was, Bernie Eptons whipped-together Republican Before its too late run was a close call, Washington winning 52% to 48%.

Why is this important? First, because understanding why Washington won sets up what follows. The City Council, still existing in the deeply bigoted Chicago that had somehow elected a Black mayor, thwarted almost everything he attempted.

Second, grasping the truth of Washingtons election makes it easier to realize that declarations that America has transcended race like Trumps 1776 Commission are invariably premature.

For instance: The heart-stirring ascendance of our nations first Black president, Barack Obama, a cool, sophisticated slice of supra-racial brilliance, led directly to the grotesque opera buffa, bigoted, sneering piece of human wreckage that is Donald Trump, spastically winking at white supremacists, his orange makeup streaking down his face, staining the collars of his $500 Brioni shirts.

How did that happen?

It happened because, as with Washington, too many people bought the past-is-redeemed narrative and took their eyes off the ball. I was having lunch with David Axelrod, Obamas former chief strategist and senior adviser, and made a confession. I find myself blaming Obama for Donald Trump, I said. Is that fair? He paused and said in essence, I didnt write it down that in Obamas last two years in office, freed of the need to run again, he felt safe concentrating on issues that he particularly cared about. Issues such as reestablishing relations with Cuba, instead of focusing on the urgent need to groom an increasingly bitter, divided, crazy and hallucinating citizenry to accept what was, for them, the unimaginable humiliation of electing a woman president.

The past is a story we tell ourselves and each other. If its too soothing, a lullaby and not a march, then we are doing it wrong, and setting ourselves up for trouble. We dont study the past because its a fun hobby, like collecting stamps. We study the past because, in doing so, we see the future. Accepting only the parts that make you feel good is like driving a car while gazing up at the beautiful blue sky and big puffy clouds. It only works until you hit the truck stopped in front of you.

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When it came time to choose a theme for Black History Month, after the turbulent year the world has just experienced, the choice was clear.

The theme ofSankofa! Black Creativity reflects the innovation, struggles, resilience and beauty of the African American/Black people, in the past, the present, and during this unprecedented time in our nations history, said Zebulon Miletsky, associate professor, Department of Africana Studies and co-chair of the Black History Month (BHM) committee.

It also speaks to the importance of artistic and creative pursuits, and also the creativity needed to move through a pandemic, Miletsky continued. The fact that we are virtual this year illustrates that reality. Weve been through a pandemic, a series of racial justice movements and protests, and violence in our streets and in our nations Capitol. Black Creativity also speaks to the ability to survive in the midst of all of these things, and the creative accomplishments and contributions that have made life richer for all Americans.

The groundbreaking research being conducted by Stephanie Dinkins, associate professor ofartin Stony BrooksCollege of Arts and Sciences, regarding artificial intelligence and equality, and the cross-campus interdisciplinary team of physicians, engineers, paramedics and students that developed a new patient particle containment chamber to combat the dangers the COVID-19 pandemic presented to frontline medical personnel are just two recent examples of real-world creativity taking place at Stony Brook.

When we say creativity, we dont just mean the arts, but solutions, innovation and invention, said Cheryl Chambers, associate dean and director of Multicultural Affairs and co-chair of the BHM committee. In a way, everything we do at Stony Brook is creative in some way.

Sankofa teaches us that we should reach back and gather the best lessons of what our past has taught us, so that we can use them as we achieve our full potential moving forward, added Judith Brown Clarke, vice president for equity and inclusion and chief diversity officer. Black History Month gifts us with meaningful and historical learning opportunities to move forward with rich contributions to a more inclusive and equitable world.

A long-standing campus tradition, Black History Month is coordinated by the Office of Multicultural Affairs, the Black History Month Committee and the Department of Africana Studies.

Stony Brooks BHM programs have had a long and impactful history, said Isobel Breheny-Schafer, assistant director of Student Media and a member of the Black History Month committee. This years theme is a perfect way to highlight the talents of the Stony Brook community.

The University radio station, WUSB, will host its 30th annual reggae marathon, a three-day celebration that coincides with Black History Month. The tradition was founded by SBU alumni and current disc jockey Lister Hewan Lowe in 1991, and celebrates the legacy of influential Jamaican artist Bob Marley.

Another Black History Month highlight is the annual Spoken Word contest, a competition featuring student poetry, rap, storytelling and creative artistry. The content will take place virtually on February 22. Winners are invited to perform on WUSB and be published by BlackWorld media.

In the fine arts, the Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery is presenting Reckoning, which features an online exhibition showcasing the work of Stony Brooks world-renowned faculty artists, as well as an online student digital mural featuring work created in response to the challenges and issues they are experiencing.

Creativity Speaks BHM Through the Eyes of Student Artists

I created a piece called Enough is Enough the night before my very first Black Lives Matter protest, said senior psychology major Priscilla Nash 21. I was in a completely frazzled, upset state with everything that had been going on, and I needed an outlet. I needed to express my disbelief for how long things like this have been happening and how the stories that we hear today mimic stories that have been told over and over for decades.

Going into Black History Month amidstthe Black Lives Matter movement is an intersection in recenthistory that needs to be recognized by all, addedGianna Coscia 22, a physician assistant studies student. Its a time to reflect thoroughly on the centuriesof historical injustice that preceded this Black History Month of 2021, but also a time to recognize that history is still happening now.

The Black History Month opening ceremony takes place virtually on February 3 at 1 pm, and will feature a keynote speech by Julieanna L. Richardson, founder and executive director of The HistoryMakers, the nations largest African American video oral history collection of scholarly materials.

Acquired by the Stony Brook University Libraries and celebrating its 20th anniversary, The HistoryMakers database highlights nearly 2,700 historically significant African Americans in education, science, business, politics, arts, entertainment, sports, the military and other fields.

Register on Zoom to view the opening ceremony. You can find the fullscheduleof events on Stony Brooks Black History Month website.

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My two intellectual loves are history and journalism alternately, history and its first draft and Im always happy to see the two overlap. Thats the case with word that the Internet Archive has digitized nearly the entire back catalog of Editor & Publisher for decades the bible of the newspaper industry and made it searchable to all.

I may be one of the youngest journalists to have experienced E&P in its period of pre-Internet glory, when it was the best (and often only) place to find out about job openings at newspapers. I remember, as a cub reporter at The (Toledo) Blade in 1997, going in with a couple of coworkers for a shared subscription so we could see who was hiring. The Internet knocked E&P off its perch, offering free-or-cheap competition for both job listings and media gossip and giving it the fusty smell of yesterdays media, though its shown some signs of life under new owner Mike Blinder.

Its Blinder we have to thank for handing E&Ps archives over to the Internet Archive for digitizing:

When Blinder called Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive and found out we had the microfilm for his back issues, he was very excited to find the microfilm was not only safe, but that the Internet Archive would digitize all of the issues at no cost to him. Blinder enthusiastically gave permission for the full 100-year history to be read and downloaded by anyone, anywhere along with E&Ps International Yearbook and Market Guide. Going beyond the Internet Archives traditional lending system ensures it can be indexed by search engines and made maximally useful to readers and researchers.

I just went nuts, Blinder recalls of learning about the project earlier this year. I read history all the time. The fact that content about this incredible industry was available to humanity was exceptionally exciting.

So if youre at all interested in the 20th-century history of the American newspaper business, you now have access to a robust new resource. To give you a taste, I spent an afternoon combing through the archives to pull out some of the centurys most interesting moments; check them out below.

(But before I release you to those clips, allow me a minute on my soapbox. Newspapers archives are an incredible storehouse of information about the history of our country. And too many of those archives are, as E&Ps were, left crumbling in some storage facility or hidden away on unindexed rolls of microfilm. If you work for a newspaper or magazine and your archives arent yet digitized and available online, do what Mike Blinder did and reach out to the Internet Archive, which can handle the process, often at no cost to you, and make sure the public will benefit from your newspapers work for years to come.)

Without the subject of this story, you wouldnt be reading this website right now: Agnes Wahl Nieman, widow of Milwaukee Journal owner Lucius Nieman, leaves a portion of her estate to Harvard to promote and elevate the standards of journalism in the United States and educate persons deemed especially qualified for journalism.

French inventor douard Belin shows off his experimental television in cooperation with the New York World though its more like a photograph transmission device, based on his earlier Blinographe. The photo sent in tests? One of the Lumire brothers.

Eight full years before the founding of the National Association of Black Journalists, a group of African-American journalists assembled under the name Black Perspective, whose purpose is to improve the image of the Negro in American life. Among those at the first meeting: Ed Bradley (later of 60 Minutes fame), Bob Maynard (future owner of the Oakland Tribune), Ernest Holsendorph (later a business writer for The New York Times), Claude Lewis (the first black columnist for a Philadelphia daily), and Melvin Miller, who is still running Bostons Bay State Banner today, 54 years later.

By way of contrast, check the adjoining story: Civil Rights Coverage Angers Editor, in which the editor of the Dallas Times-Herald complains that some news outlets were too supportive of civil rights for his taste.

A new hire at The Washington Post named Benjamin Bradlee, whod spent the previous four years running Newsweeks Washington bureau.

The birth of unions in journalism: 102 editorial employees of three Cleveland dailies the Press, the News, and the Plain Dealer vote to form the Cleveland Editorial Employees Association. The initiation fee: 50 cents. Newspapermen like to call themselves liberal. They pretend to be radicals, communists, bolsheviks, but the fact is they like to have other people wear the badges. Radicalism and unionism are perfectly swell for the other fellow. Most newspapermen like to remain aloof.

Survival was the top priority for the embattled New York Daily News even back in 1982, showing some things never change. But most noteworthy here is the first E&P appearance of Donald Trump, a real estate developer, who has applied for a casino gambling license in New Jersey.

A profile of 22-year-old Garry Trudeau, whose comic strip Doonesbury was just moving from the Yale Daily News to national syndication. His goal: to generate enough income in six months to have six months a year free.

An pre-syndication appearance from legendary Boston Globe columnist Ellen Goodman, who E&P misidentified as the papers Home Furnishings Editor in a piece on the debate over women in the newsroom. Women are not in favor of giving men the junk. Theyre in favor of junking the junk.

E&P was the bible of the mainstream, overwhelmingly white daily newspaper business, but its coverage of black newspapers and black issues was spotty at best. Heres a dispatch from the trial (trial) of the men who murdered Emmett Till in Mississippi. The Negro press had a large table over on the right of the courtroom near an open window. The first day their table was small but next morning a larger table was substituted.

Ernie Pyle already one of the countrys most popular newspaper writers leaves America for the battlefields of World War II, where hed become a legend. He was killed by enemy fire at the Battle of Okinawa on April 18, 1945.

A brief E&P editorial notes (and attempts to parry) the complaint of Ms. Magazine editor Gloria Steinem that news stories use more descriptive language in describing women than men.

The military newspaper Stars and Stripes prepares to shut down as World War I comes to a close. Check out that staff: Harold Ross, who would go on to found The New Yorker, the famed drama critic Alexander Woollcott, and the artist C. Leroy Baldridge.

The New Yorker offers up John Herseys Hiroshima which filled the entirety of its August 31, 1946 issue for newspapers to publish. The piece runs about 30,000 words and no cutting or condensing is to be permitted.

Hunter S. Thompson, formerly a free-lance travel writer in the U.S. and once a reporter for the Middletown (N.Y.) Daily Record, is syndicating articles from South America to several U.S. newspapers.

The muckraker Ida Tarbell promotes the importance of truth in the news. In our time there is much discussion of exposure, or of muck-raking, as it is called. Muck-raking consists in laying bare the practises, conditions, or policies existing in institutions or in groups of menAs long as men combine to do things secretly the reporters will have the task of exposing them. It is an unpleasant one, but if he is any good, he will not shirk it.

One of the lower points in 20th-century American newspapering: the discovery that Jimmys World, a Pulitzer-winning story in The Washington Post by Janet Cooke, had been an invention. Jimmy, an eight-year-old heroine addict with needle marks freckling the baby-smooth skin of his thin, brown arms, didnt exist. The public faith in the press is minimal at the moment, said Boston Globe editor Tom Winship. When you add a trauma like thisyou just add fuel to the fire. The crazies out to get the press are going to love it. (A reminder that you cant trust the media is an eternal phenomenon.)

Heres another case of white Southern editors complaining about national coverage of the civil rights movement. Louis Lyons, then curator of the Nieman Foundation, correctly notes that some large Southern papers had ducked the issue' and defended the coverage in Northern papers as objective and comprehensive.

James J. Kilpatrick seen here complaining he didnt get as much air time to discuss race relations as James Baldwin was one of the leading advocates of continued racial segregation during the Civil Rights Movement. Around the time of this E&P story, he was writing that the Negro race, as a race, is in fact an inferior raceWithin the frame of reference of a Negroid civilization, a mud hut may be a masterpiecewhat, pray, has he contributed to [Western civilization]? Putting aside conjecture, wishful thinking and a puerile jazz-worship, what has he in fact contributed to it? Kirkpatrick remained a popular, nationally syndicated columnist until 2009. (A worthwhile example to consider in debates over cancel culture.)

This was the first substantial appearance in E&P of Washington Post publisher Katherine Graham, who had taken that position after the suicide of her husband Philip. In a speech given in Minnesota, Graham asks: How can a modern, general newspaper talk to the dozen experts in town and not lose the other half-million subscribers? Or put it the other way around. How can we talk to the half-million subscribers and not insult the dozen experts? Does it matter? I think it does. Can it be done? I think it can.

The first appearance of the Rev. Martin Luther King, a Negro minister convicted of leading a bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala. New Jersey publisher Wayne D. McMurray had raised funds from readers to pay Kings fines and court costs. King later wrote to McMurray: Your spirit gives new hope to those of us who are forced by sectional necessity to stand under the batttering rams of segregation and discrimination. Our struggle here is not merely a struggle for Montgomery but it is really a struggle for the whole of America. (McMurray is now the namesake of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Monmouth University.)

Within a few months, the Cleveland Editorial Employees Association changed its name to the somewhat more blunt Cleveland Newspaper Guild, and they wanted to take their model national. The Cleveland Guild decided to act as a temporary clearing house for information leading to the integration of all the guilds until a permanent arrangement could be made. That permanent arrangement was what would eventually become todays NewsGuild.

The audience of E&P was, of course, people who worked at newspapers, which made it the prime place to pitch new syndicated columns, comics, and features. Here, less than three months after the strips debut, is an ad for Charles Schulzs Peanuts. (CLEVER, TYPICAL.)

A profile of San Francisco Chronicle reporter Randy Shilts, who was almost alone in covering the earliest days of the AIDS crisis in mainstream media. (Nobody else would do this job. But there is nothing Id rather be doing.) A few months after this story, his book And the Band Played On was released.

A report from the press gallery of the so-called Scopes monkey trial in Dayton, Tennessee. The Chattanooga News has leased a house across from the courthouse which will be converted into a club for the visiting newspaper men. Note the reporter fined $2 for using profanity in a public place.

Its difficult to pinpoint the true start of television in America there were years of experimental stations, with lifespans ranging from hours to years but this story is as good as any. In 1931, radios Columbia Broadcasting System launched W2XAB, the experimental station that would eventually become WCBS, CBS flagship station in New York. W2XAB was the first American station to feature an actual weekly schedule of programming the birth of appointment television! Note the headline: Director Sees Time When News Events Will Be Broadcast.

This was E&Ps first substantial mention of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernsteins Watergate reporting, here honored with a $6,000 prize from the Drew Pearson Foundation. The award was for excellence in investigatory reporting by a Washington correspondent; The New York Times Neil Sheehan had won the first prize the year before for the Pentagon Papers. This piece also properly notes that Woodward and Bernstein werent working alone: The prize was also given to Barry Sussman (cq, Bob here is an error), who edited most of the Posts Watergate stories (and was later editor of the Nieman Watchdog Project). Barrys omission from All the Presidents Men remains criminal.

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Thanks to the Internet Archive, the history of American newspapers is more searchable than ever - Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. (WHTM) Its no coincidence that Heart Month is in February the American Heart Association makes clear that when people think about metaphorical hearts as Valentines Day approaches, it also wants them to think about physical heart health.

It might be more of a coincidence that Heart Month and Black History Month are in the same month, but one Midstate cardiologist says the connection is appropriate.

We do, in the African-American community, have a disproportionate amount of sudden death due to heart disease and other heart health-related issues, said Dr. Mallory McClure, a Chambersburg-based staff cardiologist with WellSpan Cardiologist. Citing statistics from the CDC and American Heart Association, WellSpan says black Americans are 40 percent more likely to have high blood pressure than white Americans and are 20 percent more likely to die of heart disease.

McClure, who is African-American, chose her career path for personal reasons. She was 15 years old when, in the summer of 1986, her 47-year-old mother, Minerva McClure, died suddenly because of what turned out to be a previously-undetected heart condition.

My mom its like she suddenly disappeared, McClure said. So thats how I got interested in the heart.

Years later, McClures father, George McClure, died too of heart disease, in his case a coronary blockage. He was 66.

While African-Americans are overrepresented among heart disease victims, they are underrepresented among medical doctors, in terms of the percentage of doctors who are African-American compared to the percentage of the overall population that is African-America. McClure says that makes it particularly important for doctors like her to deliver messages about good diet and exercise and being proactive about seeking medical care.

I speak a language a little bit different from doctors who arent African-American, she said. And I understand what some of the issues are about access, and about people not feeling heard and not feeling safe. I feel that myself, and Im a doctor!

She says February is a perfect time to deliver heart-healthy messages because we have peoples attention, thanks to Black History Month.

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February is Black History Month and Heart Month. Why one cardiologist says thats a good coincidence. - ABC27