Oak Bluffs Town Column

March 21, 2019

Richard Lewis Tayor
The League of Women Voters is sponsoring a forum for local candidates from Oak Bluffs on Thursday, March 28 at 7 p.m. to be held at the Oak Bluffs Library.
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February 28, 2019

Richard Lewis Taylor
The Martha’s Vineyard Chapter of Association for the Study of African American History (ASALH) is one of many across the country that are celebrating the 2019 theme of Black Migration and recognizing the 400th anniversary of the 1619 arrival of the first slave ships to America that moored in Jamestown, Va.
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January 24, 2019

Richard Lewis Taylor
The end of January and February is an exciting time for those who measure the progress of diversity and inclusion in our nation as we collectively strive toward a more perfect union.
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January 9, 2019

Richard Lewis Taylor
The federal shut down in Washington, DC has closed the Smithsonian Museums, the very popular Monuments and National Parks and left hundreds of thousands of government workers facing locked doors while trying to come to work.
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December 26, 2018

Richard Lewis Taylor
The end of December represents a wonderful time to exhibit the spirit and the intent of the late President George Herbert Walker Bush’s “thousand points of light.”
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December 5, 2018

Richard Lewis Taylor
I recall a group of black Republicans from Massachusetts who were strong supporters of Bush 41, and had longstanding ties to the Vineyard.
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October 31, 2018

Richard Lewis Taylor
All of these candidates and political leaders help to punctuate the importance of voting.
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October 3, 2018

Richard Lewis Taylor
For most of the summer, there was much conversation, public and private, about the anticipated transition in ownership at Lola’s.
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September 27, 2018

Richard Lewis Taylor

Vanity Fair writer hails the career and upcoming role that our very own Russell Hornsby is playing in the movie The Hate U Give.

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