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Huntington’s rich history of Black contributions to culture was honored Thursday night with music, dance and words. The town’s Black History Month celebration at Walt Whitman High School included the voices of Countrywood Primary Center pupils who sang Duke Ellington’s “It Don’t Mean a Thing Read More …
Services are scheduled next week for Dolores “Dee” Thompson, the community leader who died Wednesday at age 94. She was the mother of Kevin Thompson, Tracey (Walter) Edwards and the late Royal Thompson, III, grandmother of Devin (Abby), Nicole, Tyrell, Walter and Kimberly and great-grandmother of Read More …
Dolores “Dee” Thompson, an enduring and influential figure whose impact can found throughout Huntington, died Wednesday morning. She was 94 years old. Over the decades of her involvement in civil rights and other causes, the diminutive and irrepressible Thompson could be found at events all Read More …
East Second Street in Huntington Station was renamed Thursday in honor of Dolores “Dee” Thompson, the 92-year-old activist and civil rights leader. The intersection of East Second Street and New York Avenue is where Thompson founded the Huntington Station Enrichment Center as a community facility Read More …