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MLK Task Force Job Completed?
Author: PRESTON KNIGHT
Date: August 31, 2013
Publication: Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, VA)
HARRISONBURG - The core mission - in fact the only one - of the Martin
Luther King Jr. renaming/naming task force was to find a way to honor
the slain civil rights leader in Harrisonburg.
Now that City Council agreed with the group's idea of renaming
Cantrell Avenue, task force members are wondering if the city has any
further need for them. It doesn't. At least it doesn't as a
designated task force, council members say. "I don't think we did all
that we did just to be dropped..."
King Rally Banks On Unity
Author: PRESTON KNIGHT
Date: August 14, 2013
Publication: Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, VA)
HARRISONBURG - Stan Maclin took the megaphone on Court Square Tuesday
evening and made a passionate plea that seemed months in the making.
"We have an opportunity today to make a deposit ... in the bank of
inclusiveness, a bank that represents all people, all nationalities,"
he said. "You may not agree with everything, but we can agree that
love is the key." Maclin addressed about 70 people during a rally in
support of renaming Cantrell Avenue to Martin Luther King
Jr. Way. Hours...
Hearing Out MLK Way
Author: PRESTON KNIGHT
Date: August 7, 2013
Publication: Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, VA)
HARRISONBURG - Maybe the third time's the charm for a public hearing
on honoring Martin Luther King Jr. in Harrisonburg.
City Council has scheduled a hearing for 7 p.m. Tuesday in its
chambers at 409 S. Main St. to receive feedback on a proposal to
rename Cantrell Avenue after the slain civil rights leader. The
hearing also is open for comments on other ways to honor King, which
has been discussed for months. A task force formed by council has
suggested renaming Cantrell to...
MLK Way Still In Slow Lane
Author: PRESTON KNIGHT
Date: July 18, 2013
Publication: Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, VA)
HARRISONBURG - Another wrinkle will be added next week to the ongoing
debate on whether Cantrell Avenue should be renamed Martin Luther King
Jr. Way.
The city announced Wednesday that a public hearing on the renaming
proposal scheduled for City Council's meeting on Tuesday has been
postponed. It's the second time the hearing has been delayed. Council
wants a task force it formed to find a way to recognize King to
suggest an alternative to renaming a street, City Councilman Abe...
Petition Out Against MLK Rename
Author: PRESTON KNIGHT
Date: June 18, 2013
Publication: Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, VA)
HARRISONBURG - Before City Council hears a formal request to rename
Cantrell Avenue in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., it will get an
earful from opponents.
The Facebook group "Remembering Downtown Harrisonburg" - more than
2,100 current and past residents who reminisce about the city - has
fashioned a petition to give council members at their June 18 meeting.
As of early Monday, more than 30 people had signed it, and the high
volume of comments on the Facebook site led organizers...
Panel Picks Cantrell For MLK Rename
Author: PRESTON KNIGHT
Date: June 7, 2013
Publication: Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, VA)
HARRISONBURG - Cantrell Avenue is a city task force's pick as the
street to be renamed in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.
Now, the group is tasked with determining how to best convince
Harrisonburg City Council of its choice. A seven-person task force,
which council authorized to make a recommendation on a street for
renaming, picked Cantrell over Stone Spring Road during a meeting at
Emmanuel Episcopal Church on Thursday night. The church is at the
corner of South Main Street...
MLK Street Renaming Meeting Tonight
Author: PRESTON KNIGHT
Date: May 23, 2013
Publication: Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, VA)
HARRISONBURG - The top choice - once and for all - for a street to be
renamed after Martin Luther King Jr. should be made clear after a
public meeting tonight.
A task force assigned by Harrisonburg City Council to make a
recommendation for the street will accept public comment at 7 p.m. in
council chambers, at 409 S. Main St. The work group, which includes
Councilmen Kai Degner and Abe Shearer, also will provide an update
from its past two weeks spent contacting property owners...
MLK Task Force Sought
Author: PRESTON KNIGHT
Date: April 26, 2013
Publication: Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, VA)
HARRISONBURG - City officials are taking the talk of renaming a
street, bridge - or, the latest wrinkle, a portion of Interstate 81 -
after Martin Luther King Jr. to the public.
A pair of meetings has been scheduled for the next few weeks to, it is
hoped, bring closure to the proposal City Council first heard in
February. On May 6, residents interested in joining a task force to
determine what should be named after King are invited to a work group
meeting. It will be at 7 p.m....
City Council Considering `MLK Bridge'
Author: PRESTON KNIGHT
Date: April 5, 2013
Publication: Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, VA)
HARRISONBURG - Vine Street, your name will live on.
Cantrell Avenue and the Talmage R. Cooley Bridge on it - yes, the
Cantrell bridge has a name - your identities should go unchanged as
well. But heavily traveled bridges over Interstate 81 in the city,
one of you may soon no longer be nameless. City Council should have a
recommendation at one of its meetings this month - Tuesday and April
23 - for the naming of a bridge after Martin Luther King Jr.,
Councilman Charles Chenault...
Commemorating A Legacy Of Leadership
Author: ALEX ROHR
Date: March 11, 2013
Publication: Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, VA)
HARRISONBURG - When Harriet Tubman ran from her masters in 1849, she
never looked back until she was free in the North. Then, she turned
around to guide others towards their rendezvous with destiny.
Tubman's legacy - especially that of her leadership - was commemorated
Sunday with the Harriet Tubman Day celebration at the Lucy F. Simms
Center for Continuing Education. The celebration, held on the 100th
anniversary of her death, included the presentation of two Harriet
Tubman Commemorative...
Cantrell Makeover?
Author: PRESTON KNIGHT
Date: March 8, 2013
Publication: Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, VA)
HARRISONBURG - How does Martin Luther King Jr. Bridge sound?
Cantrell Avenue is the "most promising" option for a Harrisonburg
street to be renamed after the civil rights activist, City Councilman
Charles Chenault said. City staff had been reviewing Vine Street, per
a resident's request, as the street to change. But with more than 500
addresses, it was proving to be "unworkable," Chenault said. With
Cantrell - which runs from South High Street to East Market Street,
and...
`A Woman Worthy Of Recognition'
Author: ALEX ROHR
Date: March 8, 2013
Publication: Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, VA)
HARRISONBURG - History will be celebrated and community members
honored Sunday at the 13th annual Harriet Tubman Day Celebration at
the Lucy F. Simms Center for Continuing Education, 620 Simms Ave.
Beginning at 3 p.m., the event, sponsored by Harrisonburg's Harriet
Tubman Cultural Center, celebrates Tubman - an escaped slave who
helped guide other escapees along the Underground Railroad - on the
anniversary of her death in 1913. In 1990, President George H.W. Bush
proclaimed March...
Simms Proposal Debated
Author: ALEX ROHR
Date: February 22, 2013
Publication: Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, VA)
HARRISONBURG - A proposition by Harrisonburg City Schools to use Lucy
F. Simms Continuing Education Center to house 10 prekindergarten
classrooms was discussed at an open forum hosted by the Northeast
Neighborhood Association at Simms on Thursday.
Residents peppered Harrisonburg City Schools Superintendent Scott
Kizner with questions regarding the proposal, one possible solution to
the division's burgeoning student population. The proposition would
move 10 of 15 current...
Street Cred
Author: PRESTON KNIGHT
Date: February 14, 2013
Publication: Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, VA)
HARRISONBURG - Stan Maclin enjoys symbolism, and none more than that which promotes peace.
In Harrisonburg, though, he says one symbol is missing: a street named
after Martin Luther King Jr. That could soon change. Specifically,
Vine Street might change. Maclin, who founded the Harriet Tubman
Cultural Center in downtown Harrisonburg, formally presented his idea
of renaming a city street - Vine, preferably - after King to City
Council on Tuesday. "It's a tremendous..."
Harmony & History
Author: Candace Sipos
Date: February 9, 2013
Publication: Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, VA)
HARRISONBURG - Shortly after a unique collection of local groups came
together for Martin Luther King Jr. Day events, some of the same
organizations are sponsoring a host of Black History Month activities.
On the holiday named for the late civil rights leader, Eastern
Mennonite University sponsored more than a dozen events throughout the
city. Among other activities, teams of students and community members
helped to clean up Blacks Run, took a walking tour of the first black
settlement...
Battling The 'Spiritual War'
Author: Candace Sipos
Date: May 26, 2012
Publication: Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, VA)
Stan Maclin found himself in the hospital in mid-January, needing
surgery. Doctors had diagnosed him with diabetes six years before and
there was a complication.
He's come close to kidney failure and has nearly gone blind because of
the disease. When he was lying on the operating table, Maclin's heart
stopped. "I believe I went to heaven," he said Thursday, wearing dark
sunglasses that help to keep the glare from irritating his eyes. "I
heard God speaking to me." He said...
Empowered
Author: Joshua Brown
Date: January 5, 2012
Publication: Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, VA)
HARRISONBURG - When Stan Maclin and Basil Marin attended the
dedication of the peace pole at the Lucy F. Simms Center for
Continuing Education in September, they were inspired by the slogan
"people everywhere acting courageously every day."
So, to help inspire folks to take 2012 by the horns, they decided to
organize an empowerment conference. Set for this Friday through
Sunday, the "Power of Empowerment" aims to provide participants with a
little more personal oomph this New Year. ...
Harriet Tubman Day Event To Honor Local Leader
Author: LAURA RENNIE, Daily News-Record
Date: March 10, 2011
Publication: Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, VA)
Page: A8
Today marks the 11th annual celebration of Harriet Tubman Day.
Stan Maclin, founder and president of the Harriet Tubman Cultural
Center in downtown Harrisonburg, was inspired to celebrate the day
after attending an empowerment workshop by Marvin Roane. Roane,
director of Empowerment Works, studied early childhood education and
development and psychology at Austin Peay University, J. Sargeant
Reynolds Community College and Virginia Commonwealth University.
Roane's workshop...
9/11 Memorial Concert Saturday
Author: HEATHER BOWSER, Daily News-Record
Date: September 10, 2010
Publication: Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, VA)
Page: B2
HARRISONBURG - Three local groups and businesses want to make sure
people never forget the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
On Saturday, Adona Music, Sincere Citizens Against Racism and the
Harriet Tubman Cultural Center will sponsor the second annual Sept. 11
Memorial Concert. The event, which is free and open to the public,
will take place in downtown Harrisonburg at Adona Music from 7 to 9
p.m. The concert, held at 34 S. Main St., will feature local talent
and Lincoln Mitchell of...
Degner Only Candidate Participating In Harriet Tubman Forum
Author: KATIE THISDELL, Daily News-Record
Date: May 14, 2010
Publication: Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, VA)
Page: B1
HARRISONBURG - Only one candidate in the race for the 26th House
District will attend Tuesday's candidates' forum.
Harrisonburg Mayor Kai Degner, the Democratic nominee, will address
the forum scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Cecil F. Gilkerson Community
Activity Center in Harrisonburg. A question-and-answer period will
follow the candidate's presentation. The Harriet Tubman Cultural
Center is sponsoring the forum. Both Tony Wilt, a Republican, and
Harrisonburg Councilwoman Carolyn...
Re-Enactors Bring Tubman, Simms Together
Author: HEATHER BOWSER, Daily News-Record
Date: March 8, 2010
Publication: Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, VA)
Page: A8
If ever there were two historical black women who should visit over a
cup of tea, it would be Harriet Tubman and Lucy F. Simms.
And, thanks to a visit from an "international storyteller" and a local
black woman, the two heroines will finally have the chance to chat
about the past. Well, almost. On March 10, Oni Lasana, a poet and
re-enactor from the Philadelphia area, will join Wilhelmina Johnson of
Harrisonburg for a re-enactment called "A conversation with Harriet
Tubman and Lucy..."
'Steps To Freedom'
Author: PETE DeLEA, Daily News-Record
Date: July 6, 2009
Publication: Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, VA)
Page: A1
HARRISONBURG - For Harrisonburg resident Gloria Carter, the signs of
segregation were apparent at every turn during her youth.
Carter, who is black, grew up in the city in the 1940s and '50s, years
before segregation began to crumble under the weight of the Civil
Rights movement. She recalls having to enter the local grocery store
through a separate entrance, and being forced to sit in the balcony at
the local movie theater. And then there's a specific memory she says
she will...
Service Remembers Hanging, Seeks To Unite People Against Racism
Author: KATE ELIZABETH QUERAM, Daily News-Record
Date: June 16, 2009
Publication: Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, VA)
Page: A8
In 1778, a slave named Will was sentenced to death for killing a white
man. He was hanged in Harrisonburg, his head chopped off and displayed
on a stake near Cross Keys Road and then his body was burned. Though
it happened more than 200 years ago, Will's death continues to
resonate with some city residents, who are holding a healing service
this week to help bring closure to the event.
"We're not condoning what the man did," said Doug Mason, whose
organization Sincere Citizens Against...
'Freedom Tour'-ism Inspires
Author: MELVIN MASON
Daily News-Record
Date: August 16, 2005
Publication: Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, VA)
Several local residents traveled throughout the state Saturday as part
of a tour to commemorate the experiences of Harriet Tubman.
The Harriet Tubman Freedom Tour took locals from Harrisonburg to stops
in Richmond and Williamsburg with performances celebrating black
history. The events concluded in Jamestown, home of the first settlers
in America. Travelers went along to learn more about the life of
Tubman, an ex-slave and the "conductor" of the 19th-century system
that led...
Underground Railroad Conductor Honored At Library Performance
Date: February 28, 2005
Publication: Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, VA)
By MELVIN MASON
Daily News-Record
The beat of the drums and colorful African-style clothing can
certainly grab an audience's attention. But Stan Maclin and family
hope the rhythms serve as a soundtrack to educate people about one of
the most courageous women in American history. As the group
Underground Railroad, the Maclins praise and talk about Harriet
Tubman, the "conductor" of the 19th-century system that led black
slaves from the South to freedom north of the...