#lee roanoke

[elyangelofdeath]

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisitions - Photograph Collection

Mighty 7th War Loan. FREE MOVIE DAY to "E" Bond Buyers on June 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th and 5th. This ticket good for one admission Wednesday, June 6th at any of the following theatres: American, Colonial, Grandin, Jefferson, Lee, Park, Roanoke, Rialto, Salem. Giles Family Photograph Album

[petervintonjr]

Meet the unsung contributor to revolutionary breakthroughs in treating polio, cancer, HPV, and even COVID-19: Henrietta Lacks. Born in 1920 Roanoke, Virginia, Henrietta's mother Eliza died when she was only four, and she was ultimately raised by her maternal grandfather in Clover, Virginia. Henrietta worked as a tobacco farmer and attended a segregated school until the age of 14, when she gave birth to a son, Lawrence. A daughter, Elsie, was born three years later --to compound the family's difficulties, Elsie had cerebral palsy and epilepsy. Henrietta and her now-husband David Lacks moved to Turner Station (now Dundalk), Maryland where David had landed a job with a nearby steel plant. At the time Turner Station was one of the oldest African-American communities in Baltimore County and there was sufficient community support for the family to buy a house and produce three more children.

In 1951 at the age of 31, Henrietta died at Johns Hopkins Hospital of cervical cancer, mere months after the birth of the family's youngest son. But before her death --and without her or her family's consent-- during a biopsy two tumour cell samples were taken from Henrietta's cervix and sent to Johns Hopkins researchers. Hernietta's cells carried a unique trait: an ability to rapidly multiply, producing a new generation every 24 hours; a breakthrough that no other human cell had achieved. Prior to this discovery, only cells that had been transformed by viruses or genetic mutations carried such a characteristic. With the prospect of now being able to work with what amounted to the first-ever naturally-occurring immortal human cells, researchers created a patent on the HeLa cell line but hid the donor's true identity under a fake name: Helen Lane.

It is no exaggeration to state that in the 70 years since her death, Henrietta's cells have been bought, sold, packaged, and shipped by thousands of laboratories; with her cells being used as a baseline in as many as 74,000 different studies (including some Nobel Prize winners). Her cells have even been sent into space to study the effects of microgravity, and were instrumental in the Human Genome Project. While no actual law (or even a code of ethics) necessarily required doctors to ask permission before taking tissue from a terminal patient, there was a very clear Maryland state law on the books that forbade tissue removal from the dead without permission, throwing the situation into something of a legal grey area. However because Henrietta was poor, minimally educated, and Black, this standard was quietly (and easily) circumvented and she was never recognized for her monumental contributions to science and medicine ...and her family was never compensated. The family remained unaware of Henrietta's contribution until 1975, when the HeLa line's provenance finally became public. Henrietta had been buried in an unmarked grave in the family cemetery in Clover, Virginia but in 2010 a new headstone was donated and dedicated, acknowledging her phenomenal contribution. That same year the John Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research established a new Henrietta Lacks Memorial lecture series. A statue of Lacks was commissioned in 2022, to be erected in Lacks's birthplace of Roanoke, Virginia --pointedly replacing a previous statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, which had been removed following nationwide protests over the murder of George Floyd.

Dive into The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, originally published in 2011 and subsequently adapted into an HBO movie in 2017, starring Oprah Winfrey as Henrietta's daughter Deborah and Renee Elise Goldberry as Henrietta. (And yes, this book has been challenged and banned in more than one school district.)

[alldancersaretalented]

Dancers You Might Know That Competed Against ALDC (Dance Moms) - Season 4

Season 4 Episode 1 Sheer Talent Wheeling 2013

New England Dance Centers attended the competition (Jade Clouds mothers studio, select team)

New England Dance Centers group "The Forgotten Children" comes in 1st ahead of ALDC "Girls Night Out"

Abby Lee Miller is listed as the choreographer for "Girls Night Out", even though Molly long choreographed the routine

Season 4 Episode 2 Believe Columbus 2013

Tillie Glatz (Studio Bleu) beats Kendall (5th) and Chloe (2nd) with her solo "If I Had My Way"

other well known studios: Studio Bleu

Season 4 Episode Special Dancers Care Foundation Benefit Competition Atlantic City 2013

Season 4 Episode 4 In10sity Orlando 2013

JoJo Siwa performs a solo ("Call Me Back") at this competition and comes in 3rd behind Maddie (1st)

Season 4 Episode 4 Dance Troupe Roanoke 2013

ALDC and CADC group dances are the only two dances competing in that category, ALDC scores 3.2 points higher than CADC

Season 4 Episode 5 Masters of Dance Arts Atlanta 2013

competition created just for dance moms

Season 4 Episode 6 Onstage America Voorhees 2013

Michelle Quiner (North Jersey Sch. o. D. A.) competes in the Advanced Teen Division and places 1st with her solo "Sunrise"

other well known studios: Jamie's Dance Odyssey, North Jersey School of Dance Arts

Season 4 Episode 7 Sheer Talent Bronx 2013

Michelle Quiner (North Jersey Sch. o. D. A) comes in 1st in Teen Solo with her solo "Sunrise", ahead of Brooke (4th)

other well known studios: North Jersey School of Dance Arts

Season 4 Episode 8 Fierce Dance Competition Woodbridge 2013

Kaeli Ware performs for ALDC, comes in 3rd with "The Sparrow"

Kamryn Beckn and Chloe Smith also compete for ALDC, however their solos don't place as the competition has all dances of one age division compete against each other for a mere Top 3

Season 4 Episode 9 Masters of Dance Arts Fort Wayne 2013

competition created just for dance moms

Season 4 Episode 10 Masters of Dance Arts Detroit 2013

Ava Cota competes under BDA and places 3rd in Junior Solo with "Read All About It", she places behind Maddie (1st) and ahead of Kendall (9th)

competition created just for dance moms

Season 4 Episode 11 In10sity Toledo 2014

competition created just for dance moms

Season 4 Episode 12 World Class Talent Experience Rockville 2014

Season 4 Episode 13 World Class Talent Experience Canton 2014

Season 4 Episode 14 Dance USA Columbus 2014

Season 4 Episode 15 Masters of Dance Arts Buffalo 2014

competition created just for dance moms

Season 4 Episode 16 Energy NDC Youngstown 2014

competition created just for dance moms

Season 4 Episode 21 Sheer Talent Wheeling 2014

competition created just for dance moms

Season 4 Episode 22 In10sity Olmsted Falls 2014

competition created just for dance moms

Season 4 Episode 23 POWERHOUSE Front Royal 2014

competition created just for dance moms

Season 4 Episode 24 Imagine Woodbridge 2014

other well known studios: Studio Bleu

Season 4 Episode 25 Believe Woodbridge 2014

Season 4 Episode 26 Energy NDC Watersford 2014

competition created just for dance moms

Season 4 Episode 27 Sheer Talent Wayne 2014

competition created just for dance moms

Season 4 Episode 28 DanceKidsUSA Orlando 2014

Season 4 Episode 31 In10sity Calabasas 2014

Ava Cota competes as an independent and comes in 3rd in Junior Solo, and 10th overall, behind Kendall (3rd Jr, 9th Overall), Kamryn (6th Tn, 7th Overall) and Chloe (5th Tn, 6th Overall)

other well known studios: San Diego Dance Center

[ironfey-42]

I Have Looked at You in Millions of Ways and I Have Loved You in Each

This is for my secret santa, @szaleksandra ! I decided to make you both a playlist and an edit cuz I was making the playlist and I thought that it looked bare without the edit.

The link is at the bottom of this post.

This is a soulmate AU where fate has bound Tony and Stephen together, but fate has also made it so that many events are trying/keeping keep them apart. Tony and Stephen overcome what fate has forced them to experience. Basically, this playlist is full of songs where fate has placed them in many AUs separating them. Tony and Stephen keep getting together but are always pulled apart. There are moments in these AUs where there’s soft fluff. The final AU is in MCU post-IW/Endgame where fate allows them to finally have their happy ending. You get to decide what the AUs are based on the songs.

Unbridled by Chasing Lovely

Home (feat. Casey Lee Williams) by Jeff Williams

Slow Dance by Chasing Lovely

To Be Human by Sia Wonder Woman AU

Battlefield by Jordin Sparks

The Story by Brandi Carlile

Unstoppable by The Score

To Love You More by Glee Cast

Climb Every Mountain by Jordan Smith

All I Want by Kina Grannis

Wave of Hope (from I am Setsuna) by Moises Nieto

Someday by Milo Manheim and Meg Donnelly, Zombie AU

Take A Hint by Victorious Cast, People Keep Setting Them Up with Other People and Not Each Other AU

Champion by Fall Out Boy

Run to You by Pentatonix

Homeward Bound by Peter Hollens

Raise Hell by Brandi Carlile

We’ll Meet Again by Vera Lynn

Cupid - Acoustic Version by Girl’s Day English Translation

Meet Me on the Battlefield by Svrcina

Every Time We Touch by Cascada

How Does A Moment Last Forever by Celine Dion

Loving You Keeps Me Alive by Thomas Borchert, Dracula the Musical AU

The Phoenix by Fall Out Boy

You Are My Sunshine by Moira Dela Torre

I Hear a Symphony by Cody Fry

Lucid Dream by Monogram English Translation

Marry Me by Venus and the Moon

I Will Spend My Whole Life Loving You by Imaginary Future and Kina Grannis

How Long Will I Love You by Ellie Goulding

You & I by One Direction

Coming Home by Seven Lions and Mike Mains

The Light by Roanoke

I Was Born to Love Her by Ivan & Alyosha

Tip of My Tongue by The Civil Wars

Marry Me by Train

SPOTIFY

AO3

[nicascurls]

Just subjected my mother to this rant, so now you guys are going to hear it as well:

I've recently been watching (or rewatching in my mother's case) American Horror Story. I had seen parts of various seasons before but not all the way through. I just wanted to clarify that to make the point that I was aware of the general tone and severity of the show. I had seen some comparisons to how Don has gone 'too American Horror' in the show, and I understood the comparison but didn't realise how damn close.

I'm towards the end of Season 6 right now (Roanoke), and I have noticed blatant parallels between events on AHS and how the legacy characters have been treated in Chucky.

1. Nica's dismemberment (and arguably her treatment in Cult as well). In Asylum there is the Nazi Doctor guy (I can't remember his name) Who repeatedly sexually assaulted patients, much like Foley did to Nica in Cult of Chucky, and also imprisoned and dismembered a patient. Once again, a strong parallel to Tiffany dismembering and imprisoning Nica.

2. Andy's imprisonment with the colonel in Season 2. Where he was imprisoned and cannibalised over the span of a year, similar to how the Polk family in Roanoke imprisoned people before eating parts of their body.

3. Kyle losing her ear in the explosion. Whilst the way the ear was lost is different in this example, it just feel like the significance of two characters losing their left ear and there being a certain focus on it is strange. There was the close-up shot of Kyle as she showed the prosthetic to Nica and Glenda in Chucky whilst there is a close-up shot Lee's ear being put in a jar in Roanoke.

Now, here's the point I want to make, the issue I have is not necessarily what happens on its own, but in the context of the different shows.

American Horror Story, especially now, is so well known that you have a degree of understanding when it comes to what to expect. You know it's going to be dark, and you also know that it will impact the characters, and no one is safe because it's a different story every season. You know there will be the trauma and the effects of that because it's not something that has to be continued in the next season.

However, with Chucky, this isn't the case. This is a continuous story that has been going for over 35 years now. Plus, the series was never intended to be that dark. There is supposed to be comedy, and it's supposed to be camp, and if dark shit happens, it usually happens to minor characters or additional antagonists.

That's why this level of horror doesn't work. Not only is it the fact that this is happening to legacy characters who fans have grown to love and root for over years, it's the fact that the actual trauma they have experienced is just glossed over or played off basically as a joke.

It just doesn't work, and it's one of the main issues I have with the show as a whole. It also feels kinda disrespectful that the legacy characters who have been surving this stuff for years suffer with this whilst the teens who seem to NEVER LEARN from their experiences manage to escape similar fates every time (because honestly, we all know the teens will be out of those dolls by the end of 4x01 if the show gets renewed)

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 7.22 (before 1900)

838 – Battle of Anzen: The Byzantine emperor Theophilos suffers a heavy defeat by the Abbasids. 1099 – First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem. 1209 – Massacre at Béziers: The first major military action of the Albigensian Crusade. 1298 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk: King Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeat William Wallace and his Scottish schiltrons outside the town of Falkirk. 1342 – St. Mary Magdalene's flood is the worst such event on record for central Europe. 1443 – Battle of St. Jakob an der Sihl in the Old Zürich War. 1456 – Ottoman wars in Europe: Siege of Belgrade: John Hunyadi, Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary, defeats Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire. 1484 – Battle of Lochmaben Fair: A 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured. 1499 – Battle of Dornach: The Swiss decisively defeat the army of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor. 1587 – Roanoke Colony: A second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony. 1594 – The Dutch city of Groningen defended by the Spanish and besieged by a Dutch and English army under Maurice of Orange, capitulates. 1598 – William Shakespeare's play, The Merchant of Venice, is entered on the Stationers' Register. By decree of Queen Elizabeth, the Stationers' Register licensed printed works, giving the Crown tight control over all published material. 1686 – Albany, New York is formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan. 1706 – The Acts of Union 1707 are agreed upon by commissioners from the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, which, when passed by each country's Parliament, leads to the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain. 1793 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first recorded human to complete a transcontinental crossing of North America. 1796 – Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland" after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party. 1797 – Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Battle between Spanish and British naval forces during the French Revolutionary Wars. During the Battle, Rear-Admiral Nelson is wounded in the arm and the arm had to be partially amputated. 1802 – Emperor Gia Long conquers Hanoi and unified Viet Nam, which had experienced centuries of feudal warfare. 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition: Battle of Cape Finisterre: An inconclusive naval action is fought between a combined French and Spanish fleet under Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve of France and a British fleet under Admiral Robert Calder. 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Peninsular War: Battle of Salamanca: British forces led by Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) defeat French troops near Salamanca, Spain. 1833 – The Slavery Abolition Act passes in the British House of Commons, initiating the gradual abolition of slavery in most parts of the British Empire. 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta: Outside Atlanta, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill. 1893 – Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful" after admiring the view from the top of Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs, Colorado. 1894 – The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The fastest finisher was the Comte Jules-Albert de Dion, but the "official" victory was awarded to Albert Lemaître driving his three-horsepower petrol engined Peugeot.

[chaoticdesertdweller]

Roanoke, Virginia

This picture was taken from the 2nd floor of Lee Junior High School on June 22, 1946 at 7pm, and shows the aftermath of Aesy's Junior Grocery (205 Franklin Road S.W.) following a fireworks explosion.

[barnbridges]

If you shared any thoughts you had on the twins as children/their childhood I'd commit unspeakable crimes for you

if you asked....

TW: mentions of sexual assault, mentions of eating disorders, religious trauma ;

Charles' first taste of guilt was that it was for him and him alone that Camilla was brought into the world. His father wanted a son to name after himself and pawn off to his mother, and their mother wanted a ride home on a winter night. Camilla came out first and screaming and left their father angry, to where he missed Charles' birth getting fucked up at the bar. They were named Charles Lycurgus IV and Camilla Róisín by their Pop and Nana, with vague agreements from their parents and maternal aunt.

Senator Charles Lycurgus Macaulay III got sworn into office a couple of days after the birth of his children, and was off to DC more than he was ever at home. Cecelia Macaulay was a girl herself at 17 and read them Oliver Twist to both lull them and sleep herself. She never wanted to go to DC. Her 17th birthday she debated if she wanted to go to Rutgens or Columbia, her 18th birthday had her two children in pretty pink onesies in attendance. The picture of the 3 of them with "Momma, Mille and Lee" neatly scribbled atop it used to rest at Charles' desk at the Childhood Education Center.

Their aunt Minerva was kicked out of the funeral for announcing her pregnancy at the service. It's why she even tried to fight for custody, a bit of spite (a bit of trying to bring her last surviving brother back, the one she lost way before he was dead). Mary Gray Addelson was not there to listen to the Macaulay dramatics of any of it. They sort of got forgotten in a room with cousin Catie and Miss Louvinia from Charlotte, but who could blame someone of sparing such small children the sight of their dead parents. They brought Camilla in to throw a fistful of dirt, Charles was asleep.

They were miss Mille and mister Lee before anyone realized how and why, they just grew into the nicknames and never wondered. "Lala" and "Charlie" never stuck besides on old kindergarten clothes with dirty labels.

Pop tried taking on teaching them to read, but was too blind for Ma's ripped paperbacks of Twain and Fitzgerald that she brought with her from South Carolina when moving in. Ultimately, it was miss Minerva they telegraphed from Roanoke to spend the hours reading to them so they could learn to speak. Camilla's first word was "bear", Charles' was "please". They began speaking with others at age 3.

Birthdays were always spent with aunt Minerva and cousin Jay, usually the most memorable part being the drive from Virginia to South Carolina. Aunt Minnie has never been mean to them, but there has always been a cold air between the pictures of the blonde woman and the three children she's walking around the amusement parks. The neighbor's cats made the children happy, at least.

Charles bit cousin Jay's finger at Christmas when he was 5 and Jay was 4 for trying to climb into bed with Nana, it makes her sad. Aunt Minnie left in a ruckus and Pop took up smoking again. It's called the incident, and they don't discuss it to the day.

The majority of Macaulays are blond with dark blue eyes, it was their mother Cee who had iron grey eyes and mousey brown hair. Charles doesn't want to admit he feels he desecrates her by bleaching his. It's a knot in Charles' throat that Camilla and Jay look too much like aunt Minerva and father at their age that never leaves, no matter how old they are.

Camilla was always Pop's favorite, picking him wildflowers and listening in while he gardened. For their 13th birthday, he gave Camilla Father's signet ring, the C III turned into a CM. Pop taught her to read in French and took her to singing lessons with miss Petunia Bell, the old lady of the town. Charles loved helping grandma in the kitchen when he was small, but eventually was kicked out because it was not a man's job.

Mawmaw stabbed Pawpaw and herself before they were even born, but from Mother's side of the family, they did meet Mary Gray and Ormie, back then a junior at Williams. Ormie was cozy with the uncles and bought Nana chocolates from when he went to Europe for a summer. Miss Catie or Cousin Lalie always snickered behind the back of the awkwardness of Mary Gray's smoking problem, she's always been less about the colors of azaleas and more on the drinking bar.

Charles painted Camilla's nails since grandma's hands began shaking too badly to keep up the perfect glazy pink. They always ended up chipped within the hour, but it became a ritual. Aunt Mary Gray showed up to their confirmation dinner a bit springy but with a tiny box of lacquers and a bigger box of mini bottles, and both ended up in Charles' side of the room.

They spent one summer with Ormie's folks at Cape Cod, some folk endeared by that Charles could butcher Gaelic and sharply calls her Roe if she walks too far ahead of him. He called Minnie to pick them up within three days.

It was aunt Minnie who taught them Greek on a whim, gardening with Camilla on a Saturnday and mumbling lowly about mandrakes and the Greek superstitions. The knowledge of names of pill bottles long expired from the long-since closed cabinet of Dr. Constance Minerva Macaulay herself, bits and pieces on herbs and Latin superstitions. The Last July she even drove Pop from Virginia to spend a couple of weeks with the three of them grandkids in the dirt of the garden in Gable, a stick's throw away from Charleston. He'd die less than 2 weeks after they are back in Virginia, but it was not a surprise for anyone. Charles Macaulay Jr had been a good man, but it was time he joined his son and daughter in law.

Charles took it worst, already a child seemingly without rest or purpose beyond walking behind his sister's skirt or talking up aunties, just rapidly free-fell. He stopped eating at first, and even Camilla couldn't get through to him. He studied his Greek and his Latin and flowers and closed himself off to their prodding eyes. He began sleeping in the attic, leaving the little shared childhood bedroom with only Camilla's bed touched for months. Neither Orman nor Mary Gray, even the cries of Jay scratching at the doors really did much, "he is possessed". They called a priest.

It was about salvation and confession, and things Charles whispered behind the attic door to a face unseen, that made him finally get out and face them once. The Father held his hand as he went down to eat something besides dried flowers and moldy crackers for the first time in weeks and brushed his hair for him. Charles began going to church, dragging Camilla wordlessly with him. He began playing the organ then. The piano came later, with Mrs Carter from church asking if he cared perhaps for her son's confirmation. He never learned to read notes proper, but his hands played fast.

He was a youth pastor at the local church fast, a story to smile at politely when old ladies began clinging to him about it. Camilla never quite understood his comfort in the crowds of them, but it made it easier to forget and live on. He did not go to either Minnie or Mary Gray for the summer, choosing to stay in Virginia with Nana and the church.

By the beginning of July, Nana called Camilla back and paid for her ticket from Boston, Lee was sick again. They never get to why, and Camilla knows better than to ask. He chewed at wallpaper and shaved his head, he tried to sign up for the military, he pulled a gun on another pastor. He began drinking for the first time. While he was calm, it was Minerva who called, face white and hands shaking, that the Institute for Troubled Youth of Something Something take him, no matter the price. Charles was in Nevada, undergoing Christian wilderness therapy for the evils in less than a fortnight. Camilla told their aunt he's never speaking to her again.

Survive the wilderness Charles did, but vacant doesn't begin to describe it. He came back thinner than he left, gaunt and prone to fevers and wild swings. Nana tried taking him to the doctor's but he never listened. He too, never would step foot in South Carolina again.

[Part 2]

[screamingforyears]

IN_A_MINUTE: // AN INDIE EXPRESS…

“THOSE DAYS” is the second single from @thechiseluk’s forthcoming LP titled ‘What A Fucking Nightmare’ (2/9 @purenoiserecs) & it finds the London-based quintet of vocalist Cal Graham, guitarists Luke Younger/Charlie Manning Walker, bassist Momo & drummer Lee Munday running “the street like packs of wolves” across 2+ mins of laddishly oi! PubRock.

@futureislands are here w/ “SAY GOODBYE,” the latest single from their forthcoming LP titled ‘People Who Aren’t There Anymore’ (1/26 @4ad) & it finds the ever-reliable Baltimore-based quartet of Gerrit Welmers, William Cashion, Samuel T. Herring & Michael Lowry doing their dialed in thing across 4 mins of new_waving & ethereally elastic SynthPop.

“HOUSE RULES” is the second single from @lamplight_cam’s forthcoming self-titled LP (3/8 @westernvinyl) & it finds Ian Hatcher-Williams’ Brookyln/Roanoke-based project waxing upon the idea that “love is all there is time for” across a 3:50 clip of steadily streaming & laconically lush IndieFolk.

@realpissedjeans are back w/ “MOVING ON,” the lead single from their forthcoming LP titled ‘Half Divorced’ (3/1 @subpop) & it finds the Allentown, PA-based quartet of Mat Korvette (vocals), Brad Fry (guitar), Randy Huth (bass) & Sean McGuinness (drums) tackling that adult shit while movin on across 4 ½ mins of accessibly agile & potently punk AltRock.

“MY BEST FRIEND” is the final single in the run-up to @tysegall’s forthcoming LP titled ‘Three Bells’ (1/26 @dragcityrecords) & it finds the ever-prolific artist shouting out all the doggies & friends of doggies across 3+ mins of crunchily grooved, rakishly riffed & love laced PsychRawk.

[meret118]

In the film, a labor organizer from New York named Reuben Warshowsky (played by Ron Leibman) arrives in North Carolina hoping to unionize the workers at a local factory. Inspired by the cause and frustrated in her job, Norma Rae joins Reuben in handing out leaflets and rallying coworkers to sign union cards. Although Reuben assures Norma Rae that she can’t be fired for promoting unionization, she loses her job while trying to expose management’s attempts to thwart the effort. The bosses’ tactic: posting an inflammatory letter on the factory bulletin board in a bid to drive a wedge between white workers and black workers.

Norma Rae was based on a true account. In 1973, The New York Times ran a profile of Crystal Lee Jordan, a mill worker from Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, who joined the Textile Workers Union of America—and who really did stand on a table, sign in hand. Although Martin Ritt, the director, once said that his primary interest was in Jordan’s personal tale and that he “couldn’t have cared less about labor unions,” the real story behind Norma Rae was one of solidarity. Intended or not, the film has as much to say about the forces that threatened to destroy the U.S. labor movement through racial division as it does the individuals who helped make the movement possible.

[ausetkmt]

The New York Times: A Statue of Henrietta Lacks Will Replace a Monument to Robert E. Lee

A life-size bronze statue of Henrietta Lacks, the woman whose cancer cells were taken without her consent and were used for research that ushered medical discoveries and treatments, will be erected in her hometown, Roanoke, Va., next year in a plaza previously named after the Confederate general Robert E. Lee.

Roanoke Hidden Histories, an organization dedicated to acknowledging Black history in the community’s public spaces, raised more than $183,000 for the project.

In a news conference announcing plans for the statue on Monday, a local artist, Bryce Cobbs, presented a preliminary black-and-white drawing of Ms. Lacks wearing a blazer and a knee-length skirt with her arms folded. The sculptor, Larry Bechtel, will use the drawing as a reference to design the statue on a stone base.

Mr. Bechtel said he would first make a two-foot model based on the drawing and then make a second, six-foot model that will eventually be molded and cast into bronze. “Hopefully, if everything goes right, we will have an unveiling of this splendid sculpture next October,” Mr. Bechtel said.

Ron Lacks, Ms. Lacks’s grandson, said the effort to honor his grandmother had been a long time coming. “This means a lot to my family,” he said, adding that he was looking forward to seeing “the sculpture that will honor her forever in this beautiful city of Roanoke.”

The finished statue will stand downtown in Henrietta Lacks Plaza, where a Robert E. Lee monument once stood. That monument, erected in 1960, was scheduled to be removed after it was found damaged in July 2020. Plans to rename the plaza took shape after the monument was hauled away that summer. At least 230 Confederate symbols across the United States have been removed, relocated or renamed since the murder of George Floyd in 2020 and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Mr. Cobbs, the artist, said in an email on Tuesday that he aimed to capture Ms. Lacks in a way “that reflected her personality and also respected her legacy.”

He said that Ms. Lacks’s family had been in touch with Roanoke Hidden Histories throughout the process and offered to help capture her likeness in the final sculpt. “Which was very generous of them, seeing as how the amount of photographs of Henrietta Lacks are extremely low and limited,” he wrote.

Mr. Cobbs said he had been involved with the project for more than three years. “Being a part of history in this way, working with this group of people to bring this to life, is something that I’ll never forget,” he said.

Ms. Lacks, who was born in Roanoke and later moved to Baltimore with her husband during the 1940s, died from cervical cancer at 31 in 1951. She left behind five young children and an unrivaled medical legacy.

Just months before her death and without her knowledge, consent or compensation, doctors removed a sample of cells from a tumor in her cervix. The cells taken from Ms. Lacks behaved differently than other cancer cells, doubling in number within 24 hours and continuing to replicate.

The cell sample went to a researcher at Johns Hopkins University who was trying to find cells that would survive indefinitely so researchers could experiment on them. The cells derived from that sample have since reproduced and multiplied billions of times, contributing to nearly 75,000 studies.

The cell line named after Ms. Lacks, HeLa, has played a vital role in developing treatments for influenza, leukemia and Parkinson’s disease, as well as advancing chemotherapy, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization and more.

According to “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” a book about her life that was turned into a movie starring Oprah Winfrey, Ms. Lacks’s family members did not learn about the use of her cells until 1973, when scientists contacted them for blood samples so they could study their genes.

Last year, 70 years after her death, the World Health Organization honored Ms. Lacks for the contribution that she unknowingly made to science and medicine. A life-size bronze statue of Ms. Lacks was also erected last year at the University of Bristol in England.

[stubobnumbers]

CFB Promotion and Relegation - The ACC

ACC Tier One - The ACC (FBS): Maryland Virginia Virginia Tech Duke North Carolina North Carolina State Wake Forest Clemson South Carolina Georgia Tech

ACC Tier Two - Atlantic Sun (FBS): Florida State Miami (FL.) Central Florida South Florida Florida Atlantic Florida International Coastal Carolina Appalachian State East Carolina Charlotte

ACC Tier Three - Coastal Athletic Association (FBS): James Madison Old Dominion Liberty University Delaware Furman Wofford Towson University Richmond Elon University William & Mary

ACC Tier Four - Big South (FCS): The Citadel Charleston Southern Presbyterian Western Carolina Campbell University Davidson College Gardner-Webb Hampton University North Carolina Central University

ACC Tier Five - Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (FCS): Delaware State University Howard University Bethune-Cookman University Florida A&M University Stetson University Morgan State University Virginia Military Institute – VMI Norfolk State University North Carolina A&T South Carolina State University

ACC Tier Six - South Atlantic Conference (D2): Bowie State University Frostburg State University Virginia-Wise Virginia State University Virginia Union University Emory & Henry College Fayetteville State University Johnson C. Smith University Allen University Benedict College

ACC Tier Seven - North Carolina Conference (D2): Barton College Catawba College Chowan University Elizabeth City State University Lenoir-Rhyne University Livingstone College Mars Hill University UNC Pembroke Shaw University Wingate University

ACC Tier Eight - The Carolinas Conference (D2): U of Mount Olive Winston-Salem State University Anderson University (SC.) Erskine College Limestone University Newberry College North Greenville University Greensboro College Guilford College Methodist University

ACC Tier Nine - Central Coast Football Conference (D3): Saint Augustine's University Ferrum College Catholic U. Gallaudet University Johns Hopkins U. McDaniel College Salisbury University Stevenson University Brevard College North Carolina Wesleyan College

ACC Tier Ten - Old Dominion Athletic Conference (D3): Averett University Bridgewater College Christopher Newport University Hampden-Sydney College Randolph-Macon College Shenandoah University Southern Virginia University Washington & Lee University Roanoke St. Andrews University Bluefield University Louisburg College

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Rev. Noel C. Taylor (July 15, 1924 - October 29, 1999) became the first African American mayor (1976-92) of Roanoke, Virginia, and was the city’s longest-serving mayor. He was considered one of the most influential leaders in the city’s history. A Republican, he was elected mayor in 1976 after having been appointed to complete the term of Roy L. Webber after he died in 1975. He served as Roanoke’s first African American city council member (1970-75). The city saw many changes including the revitalization of the downtown city market area and the opening of Valley View Mall.

He born was the youngest of five children of Noel and Hettie Lee (Murphy) Taylor. His parents were farmers. He was raised in Moneta, Virginia. He joined the Army in WWII (1943-45). He graduated from Bluefield State College, graduating with honors and a BS. He obtained a second BA and D.Div from Virginia Seminary and College. He received an MA in Religious Education at New York University.

He married Barbara Jean Smith (1955). They had two daughters.

His professional career began as a teacher in the Bedford County Public School system. He was an elementary school principal. He pastored three churches: First Baptist Church in Clifton Forge, First Baptist Church in Norfolk, and High Street Baptist Church, in Roanoke.

He was a member of the NAACP, the Roanoke Ministers Conference, the National League of Cities, the National Conference of Black Mayors, the United States Conference of Mayors, the Baptist Ministers Conference (Roanoke), and the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Missions Convention. He was moderator of the Valley Baptist Association, president of the Virginia Baptist State Convention, a member of the Kiwanis, and a 33rd-degree Mason.

He worked to desegregate Roanoke. He was a key figure in the struggle to integrate the city’s transit service, lunch counters, and public schools.

Roanoke’s city hall, the Noel C. Taylor Municipal Building, and the Noel C. Taylor Learning Academy, a combined middle school and high school, were each named in his honor. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[ironfey-42]

I Have Looked at You in Millions of Ways and I Have Loved You in Each

This is for my secret Santa, @szaleksandra ! I decided to make you both a playlist and an edit cuz I was making the playlist and I thought that it looked bare without the edit.

The link is at the bottom of this post.

This is a soulmate AU where fate has bound Tony and Stephen together, but fate has also made it so that many events are trying/keeping them apart. Tony and Stephen overcome what fate has forced them to experience. This playlist is full of songs where fate has placed them in many AUs, separating them. Tony and Stephen keep getting together but are always pulled apart. There are moments in these AUs where there’s soft fluff. The final AU is in MCU post-IW/Endgame, where fate allows them to finally have their happy ending. You get to decide what the AUs are based on the songs.

Unbridled by Chasing Lovely

Home (feat. Casey Lee Williams) by Jeff Williams

Slow Dance by Chasing Lovely

To Be Human by Sia Wonder Woman AU

Battlefield by Jordin Sparks

The Story by Brandi Carlile

Unstoppable by The Score

To Love You More by Glee Cast

Climb Every Mountain by Jordan Smith

All I Want by Kina Grannis

Wave of Hope (from I am Setsuna) by Moises Nieto

Someday by Milo Manheim and Meg Donnelly, Zombie AU

Take A Hint by Victorious Cast, People Keep Setting Them Up with Other People and Not Each Other AU

Champion by Fall Out Boy

Run to You by Pentatonix

Homeward Bound by Peter Hollens

Raise Hell by Brandi Carlile

We’ll Meet Again by Vera Lynn

Cupid - Acoustic Version by Girl’s Day English Translation

Meet Me on the Battlefield by Svrcina

Every Time We Touch by Cascada

How Does A Moment Last Forever by Celine Dion

Loving You Keeps Me Alive by Thomas Borchert, Dracula the Musical AU

The Phoenix by Fall Out Boy

You Are My Sunshine by Moira Dela Torre

I Hear a Symphony by Cody Fry

Lucid Dream by Monogram English Translation

Marry Me by Venus and the Moon

I Will Spend My Whole Life Loving You by Imaginary Future and Kina Grannis

How Long Will I Love You by Ellie Goulding

You & I by One Direction

Coming Home by Seven Lions and Mike Mains

The Light by Roanoke

I Was Born to Love Her by Ivan & Alyosha

Tip of My Tongue by The Civil Wars

Marry Me by Train

SPOTIFY

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Famous Relations

Jeffrey Dahmer: Letter to Congress, to serve in the United States Central Intelligence Agency. Given duties of SKI prison bailiff, as reform of prison sodomey and sexual assault, own request.

Ted Bundy: Economist of whaling and portside stations, music and literature attached. Found own sector of economy was being removed, defected to France, against wishes of MI-6; over ninety kills of foreign executives of British Intelligence, due to breed with "Booth" genome, mother's side; father, Chip Charlebois, still manages Bridgewater Triangle Keno; State Police Captain.

Barack Hussein Obama: Executed, electric chair; replaced, John Allen Muhammad, kindergarten CIA counselor, Jewish by miens and translated circuit, "frog"; raised to teach children to use weapons. Still attempting to deduce how inmate, "Chet", "Lee Malvo", continues to connect to internet, after mass e-mail ping in 1996, forcing deportation out of country through print of "The Matrix", self printed as "Neo", "Keanu Reeves".

James Madison: Rumored to be "German", by cousins out of Britain; Olly Olly Oxenfree, applied to man, as British boy, instead of British girl, resulting in crossing of Potomac; Puritan infantry out of Roanoke, still unaccounted for, sensitivity to Ginko Bolaba noted; as secret detective skills, "INTERPOL" organization formed in place; responsible for Great War, in "scientific method" test, to study "gay gene"; non-Talmudic book of law, US Constitution, as crafted by James Madison.

Robert the Bruce: Marijuana dealer to the richest men in Britain, Palestinian Arab in origin, "Ishmael"; arranged marriage, to Jacobin line, supported by blood of Shakespeare, "Booth" family; Booth, William Wallace, beheaded, much to shame of family, after marijuana stocks, released to common Irish of Northern Britain, relabeled "Scottish", "Utopian Society"; marijuana growing public, adding to British Empire's dominance over ale and barley crop, for beers and breads.

Pierre the Coward: Breton Crusader, in service to Frankhart; the defeat of Salah al-Din, through own troops of Arab conscript, having been given mark of Muslim, shaved heads and fast, through crops being burned by identical tactic of Saladin, hence those having found fast now in tithe to Church, the system of luxuries offered found inside of common tax of Europe to support of clergy through mutual payment of injury reported.

Joseph Chillton: Affair with Chinese-Indian woman, of high cast, "Mary", results in a bastard, refusing to serve in military campaigns of construction of roads and civilization in Judea. Military tribunal established, to see whom has themselves admitted to evidence to steal theft and proof of guilt, hence open admission of crime through practice of "Ramadan", placed on multiple days or holidays; actually forbearance with woman, of deliberate sect, preferring her drugged, with marijuana at night, to have sex with her as a victim of sexual assault; any retaining homophobia, as having refused sexual assault, therefore surviving parties, as having retained consumption of alcohol, citrus, and pig. Otherwise, a rapist, to be ignored and commonly mocked, as the Merovingian; refused a career as a police officer, soldier of military, lawyer of courts, criminal adjutator of assistance to government ward, or espionage officer in clandestine control of politician.

Samson the Arab: The prosecutor, and the first on record, having portrayed the love of his wife, as refused, due to her large buttocks, and those men preferring the bosom; thus having seduced to be rumored in arranged marriage, however only by woman, and only by man the rejected oath of poverty; the collapse of the entire Arab Empire, at the love affair, a homosexual androgynous having interfered, with the cult of fetish and domination, having demanded Samson, be on top of a woman, through her offering of her anus, as sodomey; despite the tradition of honeymoon, the woman sitting on the face, as preferable, outside penetration, that for a child; the traditions lost forever, and the Arabs banished, to the Dark, the Vampires; Gypsy, psychics.