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Autumn drive ends at historic site of James Still, ‘Black Doctor of the Pines’

Posted in Black history, history, and Medicine

First, I saw a dark wooden sign with large white letters that told me I was at the right place: The historic site of Dr. James Still, known as the “Black Doctor of the Pines.”…

Cutouts of baseball fans carry on tradition of ‘dummy boards’

Posted in Antiques, collectibles, Culture, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and history

Have you ever heard of “silent companions?” I hadn’t heard of them until my friend Rebecca mentioned them in light of the move by the Philadelphia Phillies and other baseball teams to fill their stands…

Like the movement, John Lewis was beaten, bloodied but unbowed

Posted in Black history, civil rights movement, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and history

You cannot understand the greatness of John Lewis unless you know the struggles that he and other civil rights activists endured during the 1960s. He was in his 20s when he bravely marched and protested…

George Floyd’s death links to a murderous past of lynchings

Posted in Black history, Death, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and history

I bought the newspaper at auction two years ago, but I just couldn’t bring myself to write about its contents. The stories on the front page were too horrific, too graphic, too painful. Every headline…