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National
Former High School Coach,
Two-Year-Old Receives
Local
Herman Boone, Immortalized By
Gift Of Hearing
Denzel Washington, Dies At 84
For Christmas
Herman Boone, the for- mer high school football coach portrayed by actor Denzel Washington in the movie 'Remember the Titans, has passed away at 84.
A former principal at Alexandria, Virginia's T.C. Williams High School, where Boone coached, confirmed his passing on Wednesday, ac- cording to WTOP.com. A cause of death was not given.
Boone famously took over T.C. Williams football team in 1971, which was the first year the city's schools were consolidated and inte- grated.
Along with a white assis-
HERMAN BOONE AND DENZEL WASHINGTON
Parents of children born healthy may not know how fortunate they are. But those parents whose children who are born with disabilities rec- ognize a special gift when they receive it.
Ms. Nina McIntosh
knows first-hand about chil- dren and disabilities. Her 2- year-old daughter, Leighton was born deaf. It was shocking to the family because there was history in the family of hearing loss.
The family tried hearing aids for the little girl, but when they didn’t see any re- sults, they moved on and de- cided to try a cochlear implant. The first implant
LEIGHTON McINTOSH
was surgically installed ear- lier in the year. The second implant was installed in No- vember. The implants were activated last week.
Her family decided to share the little girl’s story to encourage them not to give up.
tant named Bill Yoast, who was originally supposed to be the head coach, the African- American Boone guided the
Titans to an undefeated sea- son and a state championship.
Yoast died in May at age 94.
Sean Urbanski Found Guilty Of First Degree Murder In Richard Collins Trial
SEAN URBANSKI AND RICHARD COLLINS, III
On Wednesday, Sean Ur- banski was found guilty of first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of Army 2nd Lt. Richard Collins, III in May 2017 at the University of Mary- land, reports WTOP.
On Tuesday, The Root re- ported that the judge had dropped the hate crime charge against Urbanski. Neverthe- less, the prosecution still ar- gued on the final day of the trial that the crime was racially motivated and that the fact he watched Collins talking with his two friends for 10 minutes before returning with an open knife constituted intent. The defense never argued that Ur- banski didn’t stab Collins but instead that he was too drunk during the incident to properly have a premeditated motive and argued for a lesser charge of second-degree mur- der.
After a six day trial, the jury deliberated for around two hours before returning with the verdict. Urbanski, 24, will be sentenced on April 6 and faces life in prison without pa- role. Prince George County State’s Attorney Aisha Braveboy issued a statement indicating her office would seek the maximum sentence.
DEATH LISTING
AIKENS FUNERAL HOME
Mr. Sir Peacock, Tampa
GUDES FUNERAL HOME
Mrs. Betty Booker, Tampa
HARMON FUNERAL HOME
Mrs. Myrtle Mack, Tampa Mrs. Eartha McLeod, Tampa Ms. Deborah Clarke, Tampa Ms. Eugenie Bennett, Tampa
INTEGRITY FUNERAL SERVICES
Ms. Lolita Campbell, Tampa
Mr. Parrish Holmes, Thonotosassa, FL
WILSON FUNERAL HOME
Baby Zoey, Tampa
Mr. Jaime Roldan, Tampa
RAY WILLIAMS FUNERAL HOME
Mrs. Nadine Jones, Valrico, Florida
Mr. Jerry L. Reid, Wimauma, Florida
Mrs. Beatrice Smotherman-Shaw,
Zephyrhills, Florida
Mr. Napoleon B. Wright, Tampa
National
Meet Rhiana
Gunn-Wright, Black
Woman Behind
The Green New Deal
Rhiana Gunn-Wright
is constantly figuring out how best to engage black people on environmental jus- tice and crafting policy that empowers them against under-investment and struc- tural racism. As she sees it, environmental justice is cen- tral to black liberation. But, as Gunn-Wright explained, issues like climate change aren’t explained to people in ways that relate to their expe- rience.
She kept this in mind as a key architect of the Green New Deal, which Congress- woman Alexandria Oca- sio-Cortez’s office used to draft H.R. 109. As policy di- rector at New Consensus, Gunn-Wright is charged with ensuring that the black and brown communities that are disproportionately im- pacted by climate change will reap the benefits of a policy designed to combat it.
When we met up in Washington, D.C., earlier this year, she reflected on her time in Detroit as a policy an- alyst for the city’s depart- ment of health. There, she got a chance to appreciate how urban planning, policy and economics influence how cities with large, underin- vested communities are left unprepared for a climate cri- sis.
“Michigan, like most of the country, is facing higher, heavier rain storms. So you
RHIANA GUNN-WRIGHT
probably need a new storm water drainage system,” she told me. “It needs to be pre- pared, adapted for heavier rains. How will you have enough money with the tax base that you have right now? You won’t and Detroit’s not a hot spot for climate change. So imagine that hap- pening to a city in Florida when there’s sea level rise, when you might need to build a sea wall, when you’ll need new storm water drainage systems because you have hurricanes more often. You might need to be upgrading, solidifying homes for these new instances, for these new dangers. Who’s going to pay for that if you have a shrinking tax base? And that’s the difference be- tween a Green New Deal fu- ture and a future without it. Because what people don’t recognize is that yes, the Green New Deal, it’s a com- prehensive program, it won’t be free.”
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