SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE The Teen Lawn Care program, operated by UNITY Neighborhood Association, is reaching its full stride. The program, which was funded by Neighbors for Better Neighborhoods (NBN)
(Above- Submitted Photo LaDeara Crest residents with Community Resource Director Ike Black (right).) The residents of LaDeara Crest, a name derived from the Spanish word ladera, or mountainside, began the New
NBN hopes groups benefit from network of sharing (pictured above: NBN’s Dee Washington greets meeting attendees.) Neighbors For Better Neighborhoods’ grantees will now be called “community teams,” the grassroots community organizing
Hollis Watkins has been fighting for freedom for more than five decades. Watkins, the youngest of 12 children born to sharecroppers in Lincoln, Miss., became the first student from his
