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The Horrid Little History of the National Association for the Advancement of White People in Jax

Posted on March 12, 2021 | Leave a comment

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In the 1990s, the National Association for the Advancement of White People kept dragging Jax into national headlines. A school board member appointed a white supremacist to a task force on desegregation, a national racist hotline connected to a local elementary school and city officials apologized to the NAAWP when librarians defended black employees.

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Emerson Kennels, Centering Love for Animals and People

Posted on March 31, 2019 | Leave a comment

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For more than half a century, Emerson Kennels has sheltered dogs and helped people. From Dr. Angus Gaskin’s veterinary clinic to “Mac” Macdowell’s German Shepherds, the traveling salesman who boarded his hyena to Dorie Sparkman’s bringing puppies into her elementary school classrooms, this hidden sanctuary folded into the city has meant courage and love and rescue since its beginning.

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