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Workers at Moncure Plywood, in Moncure, North Carolina, are steadfast but weary as they have walked the picket line through three seasons of weather. Workers voted near-unanimously last July 20 to strike.
"We are standing on the word of God that we can see through this, and we are gratefully receiving support from all over the state," said Lewis Cameron, president of Machinists Local Lodge W369. Workers receive $150 a week strike pay.
(BPRW) In a year of such firsts as Jamaican-decent pilot Barrington Irving’s trek around the world in a single-engine airplane, and the Tuskegee airmen earning a Congressional Gold Medal; perhaps it is fitting to go a little further back into aviation history to discuss the premier African American woman of flight. Bessie Coleman was born in a small town in northeastern Texas in 1892, the 10th of 13 children and would ultimately become the world’s first licensed black pilot.
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My bottom lip wouldn’t stop quivering. I stared into my fiancé Nicki’s eyes watching them fill with tears. My heart pounded. We firmly held hands gripping more tightly every second. I closed my eyes for a moment, just long enough for the last eight years of my life to flash before them. I wasn’t afraid and I wasn’t dying. Honestly, I felt more alive than ever. When I opened my eyes… my fiancé was gone.
Moses
By Carole Boston Weatherford – Illustrated by Kadir Nelson
ISBN: 0-7868-5175-9
Publisher: Hyperion
Available: Bookstores everywhere
