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Articles from the August 9, 2018 edition


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  • Music in the Park a Great Way to Wind Down the Summer

    Renee Summers, Telegram Reporter|Aug 9, 2018

    If you enjoy upbeat dance music and oldies tunes, Garden City's Music in the Park is for you. The free event will take place Thursday evening, August 16, from 6 to 9 p.m. The evening's entertainment, Steve King and the Dittlies, will perform a variety of popular music at the Main Pavilion in Garden City Park. The free concert is the city's third annual event, and is presented by the Garden City Business Alliance (GCBA). This year the event has a new organizer, Alan Bennett. Bennett is usually...

  • Did you remember to vote?

    James Abeare, Contributing Columnist|Aug 9, 2018

    I know it was the primaries and you can't vote across party lines, but it was important to make your choices known for the general election in November. I don't like the fact that you can't vote across party lines in the primaries. I wanted to vote for both John James for Senate and Shri Thanedar for Governor. I think it will be Bill Schuette and Gretchen Whitmer getting the nods for governor. Wait a second?? Did Jim just say he wanted Shri Thanedar to get the nomination for governor for the...

  • Letter to My People

    Pastor Overall|Aug 9, 2018

    What is sad is that we will all mourn the recent murder spree in Chicago but we will not do anything to find out why we Black People keep killing each other. Many say it's because we don't have access to opportunities like others. But that does not mean we don't have any opportunities. They will say it was designed for us to do this to each other. What they won't tell you is we still have a choice to murder or not to murder our own or anyone else for that fact There are many poor, middle class,...

  • Historic Home - A Testament to City's Troubled Race Relation

    Steven Malik Shelton, Contributing Writer|Aug 9, 2018

    At first glance, If not for the presence of the sign designating the house a historic site, there is little to distinguish it from the rows of dilapidated buildings that surround it. The one and a half story structure is the place where in 1925, Black doctor Ossian Sweet along with his friends and family were set upon by a mob of hundreds of Whites who did not want Blacks living among them. The Whites, crazed with racial fears and hatreds, assaulted the Sweet home with bricks and stones while...