Currently in theaters is the exhilarating film that depicts one of the many movements and acts involved in the fight for suffrage and equality. The story covers the three-month period in 1965 when Martin Luther King, Jr. traveled to Selma, Alabama. The purpose of the 54 mile march from Selma to Montgomery was to protest […]
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UP and Away: Program offers genuine college experience
February 6, 2015 by
For Hickory native Ali Hale, being named Western Carolina University’s Homecoming Queen in the October game against The Citadel was just another part of her normal college experience. Hale is a member of the University Participant (UP) Program – a two-year, residential living and learning experience that strives to offer those with intellectual disabilities just […]
