Blacks cut ties with Recorder
Years of
anti-Black reporting has many leaving Times Recorder
The Rev. Thomas Sims no longer reads the
Americus Times Recorder. "I stopped reading the Times Recorder when the paper
did a headline that read: 'Ann Green ousted as School Board chairman,' when it
was just a simple vote," said Rev. Sims, an ordained Baptist minister and member
of the Sumter County Board of Elections, who has lived in Americus all his life.
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Authority faces conflict question
Board makes
reappointments over NAACP objections
In a meeting with the Americus Sumter
County Hospital Authority, members of the local branch of the NAACP asked the
authority to decline the reappointments of several existing members due to
conflicts of interests.
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