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Written by Ken Bhiza    Tuesday, 07 September 2010 15:07    PDF Print E-mail
Little Rock 9 Member Jefferson Thomas Dies At 67
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Jefferson Thomas was fast and athletic and often played pickup basketball with white students while growing up in Little Rock in the 1950s. But when Thomas became one of nine black students to integrate Arkansas' largest high school, many of his basketball buddies weren't happy to see him in their classes. "One of them said, 'Well I don't mind playing basketball or football with you or anything. You guys are good at sports. Everybody knows that, but you're just not smart enough to sit next to me in the classroom,'" Thomas recalled years later.

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Written by Ken Bhiza    Sunday, 05 September 2010 15:30    PDF Print E-mail
A Nurse Is Re-United With Dying Father After Forty-One Years
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A Bronx hospice nurse found her long lost father because he became one of her patients! A remarkable twist of fate reunited a dying cancer patient with the daughter he hadn’t seen in 41 years at the Bronx hospice where she is a nurse. Victor Peraza arrived at Calvary Hospital 10 days ago, to the only available bed – on nurse Wanda Rodriguez’ unit. The new patient bore the same name as Rodriguez’ father, who left her family when she was an infant.

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