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Harold Washington College celebrates life and legacy of namesake
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When Vaneika Martin was 4-years-old, she met Harold Washington. It was earlier than his historic election as town’s first Black mayor, and he was on the marketing campaign path.
He confirmed as much as her father’s grocery retailer — the primary Black-owned grocery retailer in Lithuanian Plaza — sporting an extended black trench coat.
“Washington pulled up, and I assumed he was an uncle,” stated Martin, now head of the Biology Division at Harold Washington School. “I felt like this man was a part of our household. He got here and picked me up and … spoke to our neighborhood.”
Martin was one in all greater than 50 individuals gathered at Harold Washington School on Wednesday morning to rejoice Washington’s legacy.
Washington, whose centennial birthday was Friday, was elected in 1983 and served till his loss of life 4 years later.
“Mayor Washington lived a life dedicated to social justice, inclusion and unity,” stated Daniel Lopez, the school’s president. “His work modified the lives of many Chicagoans throughout ethnicity, nationality, race, gender and sexual orientation.”
Wednesday’s gathering at 30 E. Lake St. featured a Q&A with Washington historians, together with Raymond Lambert, producer of the documentary “Punch 9 for Harold Washington.” Attendees shared reminiscences of Washington and a musical efficiency by two Harold Washington School college students.
Scholar members from Harold Washington School’s Jazz Pop Ensemble carried out on the faculty’s celebration honoring Washington’s a hundredth birthday and life achievements.
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One man shared his reminiscence of Washington becoming a member of his household for Sunday dinners; one other shared the time he met Washington and being “mesmerized” by his presence; one even shared what it was like in Metropolis Corridor the day of Washington’s loss of life.
A lot of the celebration centered round historian and professor Asif Wilson’s lesson on Washington’s life and marketing campaign.
“I by no means met Harold Washington — however my mother will inform you a unique story,” Wilson stated. “She would say, ‘Boy, we was out on the street organizing for Harold Washington while you have been in my stomach, you met Harold Washington!’”
Wilson’s lecture included brief clips from “Punch 9 for Harold Washington,” a documentary on Washington’s marketing campaign and its legacy. Wilson’s dialogue inspired self-reflection and self-determination to create a greater future.
“I consider deeply within the values that Harold Washington embodied, within the ways in which he led, the ways in which he interacted with individuals, the methods by which he mirrored and engaged in a metamorphosis of the world we reside in as we speak,” stated Wilson. “Harold was a person that was very artistic and really express in constructing with individuals.”
Asif Wilson speaks concerning the life and legacy of Harold Washington throughout a commemoration and celebration of Harold Washington’s a hundredth birthday on the Harold Washington School.
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The faculty’s celebrations proceed later this week. On Friday, the school will host a Harold Washington Life and Legacy bus tour with Shermann “Dilla” Thomas, a historian who has gained social media fame for his TikTok classes about Chicago.
Excursions will run at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Registration is required and might be made by way of Eventbrite. Availability is on a first-come, first-serve foundation.
Cheyanne M. Daniels is a employees reporter on the Chicago Solar-Occasions by way of Report for America, a not-for-profit journalism program that goals to bolster the paper’s protection of communities on the South and West sides.
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Tim Walz has 'gilded his record for political gain,' Washington Post columnist says
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Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker criticized Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for exaggerating elements of his career for “political gain” in an op-ed published on Friday.
“I’m not saying that Walz lies, precisely,” Parker wrote in an op-ed headlined, “Tim Walz isn’t exactly what he seems.” “But he tends to gild his résumé for political gain.”
Walz has been forced to defend a number of controversies that have emerged following Vice President Harris’ announcement that he would be her running mate. In particular, Walz has had to explain his record in the National Guard and his 2006 congressional campaign’s statements on his 1995 drunk driving incident.
‘MASTERFUL SHAPESHIFTER’ WALZ GETS POINTED MESSAGE FROM MINNESOTA VOTERS AT STATE FAIR BOOTH
Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker criticized Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for exaggerating elements of his career for “political gain” in an op-ed published on Friday. (Scott Eisen)
Parker called out Walz’s statements about his 1995 arrest for drunk driving.
“Walz, then a 31-year-old high school teacher, was clocked at 96 mph in a 55-mph zone in Nebraska,” Parker wrote. “He was pulled over by a state trooper, who, upon smelling alcohol, asked Walz to take a field sobriety test, which he failed. Walz then submitted to a hospital for a blood test, which revealed his blood alcohol level to be 0.128, well above the state’s legal limit.”
While that info is verifiable by police records, Walz’s 2006 congressional campaign staff told the press that the candidate was not drinking and actually failed to understand the police officer’s directions because of hearing loss, blaming an injury relating to his time in the National Guard.
Parker also responded to Walz’s interview alongside Harris with CNN.
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Veterans who served alongside Walz in the same battalion when he was in the National Guard have spoken out against his honesty about his service record. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
“Morning show softballs may give comfort to the ill-prepared, but they deny viewers the content they need to be better-informed voters,” Parker wrote. “Nothing about the pair’s first (taped) interview Thursday night, with CNN’s Dana Bash, satisfied that imperative. Although Harris handled the interview relatively well, Walz seemed to be a mixed-up mess.”
“He answered none of the four questions he was asked, including whether he had misspoken when he said he had carried a gun ‘in war’ when he never was deployed to a combat zone,” Parker wrote. “A simple ‘yes’ might have sufficed, but instead he sputtered evasive nonsense and, to be rhetorically accurate, gobbledygook.”
Veterans who served alongside Walz in the same battalion when he was in the National Guard have spoken out against his honesty about his service record.
The Harris-Walz campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
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How acquired: Selected with No. 20 pick in 2022 NHL Draft
2023-24 season: Washington (NHL): 21 GP, 2-4-6; Hershey (AHL): 47 GP, 9-16-25
Miroshnichenko adapted well in his first season in North America, getting experience in the NHL and American Hockey League. After playing one game in the Stanley Cup Playoffs with Washington, the 20-year-old native of Ussuriysk, Russia, helped Hershey win its second consecutive Calder Cup championship with 12 points (seven goals, five assists) in 20 AHL playoff games.
Miroshnichenko (6-1, 185) will compete for an NHL roster spot in training camp but could return to Hershey to begin the season.
“We would like to see ‘Miro’ become a quality, well-rounded player,” Capitals coach Spencer Carbery said, “but also someone that can produce in the NHL and can be a potential 25-, 30-goal scorer. So you want to make sure we’re taking the necessary steps to enable that inside of him, and not putting him in a scenario where he’s playing 10 minutes and playing on the fourth line.”
Projected NHL arrival: This season
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