“Moving into this year, it has been made evident by many political leaders that they don’t care about our opinions, and often don’t care about our rights as U.S. citizens,” wrote Dar’Nell Price, Oak Ridge High School student and this year’s winner of the NAACP Black History Essay Contest. He added: “Elections give power, the […]
Dolly Parton’s fans are defending the country music icon after an essay in the Federalist conservative news site went after the 78-year-old “Jolene” singer’s faith earlier this week due to her support for the LGBTQ community. The headline, “There’s Nothing Loving About Dolly Parton’s False Gospel,” caught many people off guard. Supporters flooded social media […]
Feb. 17—Addressing inequality served as inspiration for NaLonai Tisinger’s winning essay in The Tribune-Democrat’s Black History Month contest. The Greater Johnstown High School sophomore writes that even with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawing discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin, that doesn’t mean these discriminations have gone […]
ERIE — An essay on democracy written by Ana Bruck placed first in a contest sponsored by Erie VFW Post 3925. Her essay was then submitted for the national VFW Voice of Democracy competition. Offered to students in ninth to twelfth grade, the competition is held annually throughout the U.S. This year’s theme was “What are the […]
More than a century ago, an 8-year-old named Virginia O’Hanlon had a question weighing on her mind. Were her friends correct when they said, “There is no Santa Claus”? She decided to write a letter to the best authority she knew, the New York Sun newspaper — and the response of an editorial writer named […]