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I Am Royalty: Profiles in Black History By JESSICA CRAWFORD • Leader & Times
Label Me Royalty is an organization which strives to provide positive examples of today’s African-American population. The I Am Royalty: Profiles in Black History publications shed a very positive light on African Americans as individuals in an effort to bring confidence and pride to African American communities. I Am Royalty: Profiles in Black History was given life through editor Emmanuel Brown. He founded the Label Me Royalty ideology in order to offer positive role models for African American people. “Label Me Royalty was established on Sept. 24, 2009, during a time when violent actions became the normal behavior for young people all over the country,” Brown noted in a summary of his purpose. “It was noticed that there was a need for solutions to the problem of negative behavior in black American communities instead of solutions to symptoms. “Label Me Royalty believed that the problem was the vision of younger generations, or the lack of it,” he explained. “The I Am Royalty: Profiles in Black History anthology series started being published to provide alternative vision and to make young black Americans aware of options that they might not have known about in November of 2010. “I Am Royalty: Profiles in Black History is not attempting to ignore the ills that plague our society,” he added. “We are simply putting emphasis on successful parts of it and the positive people that make up our communities.”
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R I G H T : L a b e l M e R o y a l t y R e g i o n a l C o o r d i n a to r C h a n i t a M i t c h e l l i s f e a t u r e d i n th e f o u r t h v o l u m e o f I A m R oy a lt y : P r of il e s i n B la ck H i s t or y . A B O V E: D u r i n g t h e B l a c k H i s t o r y M o n t h T a s t e F e s t j u s t tw o w e e k s a g o , M i t c h e l l p r o v i d e d a b o o t h w i t h i n fo r m at i on a b ou t A f r i ca n A m e r i ca n h i s t or y a n d p e o p l e w h o a r e gi v i n g t h e A f r i c a n - A m e r i c a n c o m m u n i te s a b r i g h t f u t u r e . “ I t i s u p t o u s i f i t w i l l b e p o s i t i v e o r n e g a ti v e , ” M i t ch e l l s h a r e d w i t h th e L e a d e r & T i me s . “ O u r h i s t o r y i s w o r t h l e a r n i n g , w e ca n ’ t h a v e a p r e s e n t a n d a f u t u r e w i th o u t a p a s t . Y o u h a v e to k n o w w h e r e y o u c o me f r o m t o k n o w w h e r e y o u a r e g oi ng . ” Courtesy photos
Mike Hanson says goodbye after 8 years By ROBERT PIERCE • Leader & Times Mike Hanson began working as an agent with the Seward County K-State Research and Extension office on Feb. 29, 2004, and on Wednesday – Feb. 29, 2012 – after eight years, he will say goodbye to the office on Stadium Avenue in Liberal. Hanson recently made the decision to go to work as the operations manager of four facilities for the Co-op
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Haskell Co. English students get history lesson on Olney’s Pancake race crash sends Liberal man to Wichita hospital By LARRY PHILLIPS • Leader & Times
• L&T staff report A Liberal man was severely injured Tuesday while on County Road 190 in Haskell County when he T-boned a vehicle five miles southwest of Copeland that had failed to stop. Mario Ortega, 32, of Liberal was driving a 2002 Chevrolet pickup eastbound on County Road 190 around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, when a 1998 Ford F-700 driven by Elvis Emery Wilson, 67, of Montezuma, was southbound on County Road XX. Wilson failed to stop at the stop sign at the intersection, according to a Kansas Highway Patrol report. As Wilson drove into the roadway, Ortega broadsided the Ford on the driver’s side of the vehicle. Wilson was taken to Western Plains Regional Hospital in Dodge City for treatment of his injuries. Ortega was taken to Satanta District Hopital in Satanta but had to be airlifted to Via Christi Hospital in Wichita. The report noted both men were wearing safety restraints at the time of the incident.
Just a few miles south of Olney, England, sits the small village of Emberton. I’ve never met or known anyone from there, but it is the home of British Indy race car driver Dan Wheldon’s father and mother. That is also where his funeral services were conducted after his death a few months back in a racing crash in Las Vegas. Sunday morning in Olney had us walking about and with a visit to St. Peter and St. Paul Parish Church where Claire Wood is the Vicar. Unfortunately, the reverend was out of town with most of her 750-person flock on a retreat, according to organist John Witchell. Upon leaving the church and heading down Church Street, we ran across several adult women and eight children, the kids were all wearing aprons – boys and girls – and each had a skillet in their hand. When asked, one of the women said the children were students from Emberton and they were on a field trip learning about the Pancake Day Race. I told them who we were and where we were from. They were delighted, and one of the These students from Emberton, a small village south of Olney, are getting a hands-on lesson on the history of Olney’s Pancake Race on the Sunday prior teachers read them the part to Shrove Tuesday’s actual race. The “lit ’el” girl on the left and the “lit ’el” boy in the center are caught watching when the two other children take off about how Liberal, Kan., in the on the “Go” signal from the teacher, right. L&T photo/Larry Phillips U.S.A. had started racing the women of Olney in 1950.
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