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My little Spider-Man, his mother called him. Ayden King was 2 years old, and it seemed he had superpowers. He could pour his own milk, though he did spill a little, and he could pull up a chair and open a high cabinet to find a snack. One time he climbed over the metal railing on the balcony of their second-floor apartment. He was holding on out there, in the open space, until his mother pulled her little Spider-Man back onto the balcony. In a recent conversation with CNN, Chepial Williams rem…
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On Saturday, as third-ranked Georgia played top-ranked Tennessee, I took my family to the zoo. In past years I would’ve been on the couch with my brother, eating wings and bellowing at the TV. I texted my brother to say I was sorry.
over 1 year ago
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A woman told prosecutors in Atlanta in 2020 she thought James Brown had been murdered. The DA vowed to investigate. Two years later, the inquiry is dead – and potential evidence is missing.
about 2 years ago
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Thomas Lake, in his latest essay for “The Distance” series, writes about a father who lost his wife to cancer and the balance of experiencing days that are diamonds and others that are stones, as the old country-rock song put it, while he looks to the future.
about 3 years ago
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In the latest installment in the series The Distance, Thomas Lake writes, “Are you holding it together? I am not. Most days I struggle with grief and rage. I often cover my face with my hands. My fingers keep closing into fists.”
over 3 years ago
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In the latest essay for The Distance series, Thomas Lake shares a coronavirus
scare he had after helping a stranded stranger one night in September.
over 3 years ago
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John left this thought unspoken: If someone somewhere had worn a mask, maybe my parents would be alive.
over 3 years ago
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Tracy woke up early on Monday, August 3, the first day of school at Sequoyah High in Cherokee County. But she never left the house. Instead she drank her coffee alone and worried about the other teachers. And she cried, writes Thomas Lake
over 3 years ago
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Thomas Lake writes on what he remembers about life before we were all
conditioned to avoid people and what life now looks like for him and his family
during the Covid-19 pandemic. During a recent trip to the park with his four
kids, a young boy asked if he could join Lake and his four children in a…
almost 4 years ago
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Thomas Lake writes about Kevin Rathel, who was on the verge of succumbing to Covid-19. Then, he received a plasma donation from a stranger and soon began to recover.
about 4 years ago
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Richard Phillips survived the longest wrongful prison sentence in American history by writing poetry and painting with watercolors. But on a cold day in the prison yard, he carried a knife and thought about revenge.
about 4 years ago
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Thomas Lake writes about Susanne Sener, a self-declared “Old Lady in the Mountain.” Self-isolated by circumstance for many years, she is accustomed to the defining solitude of the Covid-19 pandemic. Through the kindness of a stranger, she learned that maybe we do need each other.
about 4 years ago
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Thomas Lake writes about Jonathan Parnell, a Detroit police captain who recently died from Covid-19. Parnell was beloved by his family and dedicated to his job in a city he loved. He was itching to get back to work right up until his death.
about 4 years ago
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Thomas Lake writes that the shutdowns and closures caused by the coronavirus pandemic are marring our days with sorrow, but we must not forget to be grateful.
about 4 years ago
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Two decades later, a traffic stop on a country road is still teaching police
officers about deadly force – and the cost of hesitation.
over 6 years ago
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Did one police shooting help raise the nationwide homicide rate? Observers
disagree. But three years later, Ferguson and metro St. Louis are still paying a
terrible price.
over 6 years ago
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The officers of the Buffalo Police Department went more than four years and 2
million calls without a fatal shooting. What did they do right?
over 6 years ago
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Nearly a dozen protesters were forcibly removed from a Donald Trump rally in Las
Vegas the night before the final Republican primary debate of the year, and
Trump’s supporters yelled at the demonstrators as they were taken out of the
room.
over 8 years ago
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Nearly a dozen protesters were forcibly removed from a Donald Trump rally in Las
Vegas the night before the final Republican primary debate of the year, and
Trump’s supporters yelled at the demonstrators as they were taken out of the
room.
over 8 years ago
