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With great sadness, we are passing on the news that our beloved and enormously gifted poet, teacher and mentor to many, Trinidad Sanchez, Jr., died on Sunday, July 30, 2006 at the Methodist Hospital in San Antonio. TX. He was such a loving man, gentle spirit and leader. His words and laughter will live on forever. The poet, activist and teacher must live on in all of us!
Photo by Jesse Herrera, Laredo, TX
LANSING, MI – Sankofa Shule Public School Academy announced Dr. Saleef Kafajouffe as its new Chief School Officer (CSO) on Tuesday, July 25, at Sankofa Shule Public School Academy at 4817 Bristol Road in Lansing. At the news conference, will announce key elements of his vision for the school’s future.
LANSING, MI — As a young girl, Elizabeth Crenshaw, grew up watching the Miss America Pageant, she would imagine herself under the lights of the Atlantic City stage holding the winner’s bouquet.
Customer Willis C. Bradley checks out the tomatoes as he contemplates dinner for the evening. He said that he really loves the concept of being able to buy fruits and vegetables locally and hopes that more people come over to the southside to support the store. TNCP Photo.
LANSING, MI — B&B Southside Produce opened in May of 2006. It is located at 2215 W. Holmes Road on the corner of Pleasant Grove.
On Thursday, July 27, 2006 at a White House ceremony attended by NAACP leadership, members of the Board of Directors, staff and Civil Rights coalition partners, President Bush signed H.R. 9, the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006 into law.
MSU MUSEUM, EAST LANSING, MICH. – The MSU Museum’s fifth annual Great Lakes Folk Festival is hitting all the right notes with this year’s music program. Klezmer, juke joint swing, Caribbean, Creole, Ugandan and more spectacular sounds and stories will fill the streets of downtown East Lansing for the three-day event, Aug. 11-13, 2006.
DETROIT, MI — Erica Kimbrough, from Rhonda’s Reflections hair salon located at 6070 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd, placed first in the the “Short Hair Division” at the Milky Way Hair Style Competition held at Cobo Hall.
LANSING, MI — Faced with a $10 million budget deficit, the Lansing School District decided to close Walnut Elementary located at 1012 N. Walnut St. It was one of five schools closed last June by the budget-crunched public school district.
On August 2, 2006 at 6:30 pm, residents who live and vote in the 68th District will have the opportunity to hear and see the candidates. They will be asked to share their views on certain key issues.
LANSING, MI — It all started during a reclamation meeting at the Flapjack’s restaurant in Lansing. Brother Michael Blake and Brother Clarence Smith were sitting around one Tuesday morning trying to figure out how to excite the brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. here in Lansing in a way never done before.