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Laurie E. See died on Tuesday, May 17, 2022 in the Madison, Wisconsin area, where she lived most of her adult life, in the city she loved and called home. She was born in Wausau, Wisconsin on a Thursday, September 8, 1960, the only child of Doris J. (nee Ockerlander) and Robert A. “Bob” See. There she attended public schools, graduating from Wausau East High School in 1978. She studied History as an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was a member of Phi Alpha Theta National Honor Society in History, receiving her B.A. with distinction in 1981. As a graduate student, also at UW-Madison, Laurie studied first English and then Linguistics. She was a Foreign Language and Area Studies (Title VI) fellow, awarded her M.A. in Linguistics in 1989, and continued on with work toward the Ph.D. in Linguistics in Syntax, minoring in South Asian Language.
Laurie met Randall L. “Randy” Fuchs while studying at the Helen C. White Undergraduate Library, a.k.a. College Library, during Laurie’s freshman, and Randy’s sophomore, year at UW-Madison. They were married at the First Universalist Unitarian Church in Wausau, on March 26, 1983, and celebrated their 39th anniversary in 2022.
Laurie was the assistant to the editor for the volume Complex Predicates in South Asian Language, Manindra K. Verma (ed.), Manohar Publishers, 1993. She worked at a number of departments at UW-Madison, including the Linguistics Department, the Van Hise Graduate Reading Room, the German Department, the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, and, for almost a decade, at the UW Law School Library. She produced University Hindi language course materials using early Devanagari script fonts in the MS-DOS and early Windows era; she taught English as a Second Language (ESL) and tutored ESL,…

This story is the first in a series about two families—one Black, one white—coming together to confront the wrongs of slavery.

“I have a dream that one day…the sons of former slaves and former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.

Prologue: Searching for Her Story

The inheritance that was meant for Cheryl Wills, one that could have tempered her years of childhood pain, an inheritance that could have buoyed her spirits or brought distinction among her peers, was, in the end, locked up underground.

But Wills, a Black woman with archetypal New Yorker tenacity, was determined to find the key. It wasn’t a precious jewel collection she was after, nor was it a heap of Americana treasures from a hallowed estate. Instead, Wills traveled more than a thousand miles to western Tennessee, a land of rich soil dotted with rural homes and ranches, to search for bones in a place where, as it had been for more than 200 years, cotton was still king.

The first thing Wills noticed when she stepped out of the car on that day in November 2019 was the autumnal beauty of the land. “I immediately felt a connection to the earth,” she remembers. “I could see and touch the place where my ancestors had lived, right down to the cotton buds.” The sky was expansive, and the royal colors of fallen leaves stretched out like a carpet awaiting her arrival. “I was born in the city of steel, New York City, where things change on a dime, but I felt like I had stepped into a living museum, like I got out of a plane, got into a car, and walked into the 19th century.”

Wills’s reverie was interrupted by the warm…

John Joseph Bishop is an English footballer, comedian, actor, and presenter. He was born in Liverpool on November 30, 1966, his childhood wasn’t very easy as his father Edward Bishop was a laborer, his mother Kathleen was a homemaker and he was the youngest among his 3 siblings.

John Bishop- Education

Jhon attended his primary education at Murdishaw West Primary School in Runcorn and secondary in Brookvale Academy in Winsford. Later on, he studies English at Newcastle Polytechnic now called Northumbria University.

He graduated from Manchester Polytechnic now called Manchester Metropolitan University with a BA degree in Social Science. He eventually left in the year 2006 at the age of 40 to pursue his dream of acting.

Career :
Bishop played football in multiple club domestic leagues with different teams as a midfielder. He made his comedy debut with his first show in Manchester in the year 2000 and the very next year he made it to the finals and won major comedy shows in the UK including So You Think You’re Funny BBC New Comedy Awards,

Daily Telegraph Open Mic Awards and City Life North West Comedian of The Year Award. His stand-up comedy career took a splendid start and fast forward to 2009 he appeared in the British stand-up comedy television series Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow, and in the same year, he did a show at Edinburgh Festival Fringe for which he received another award.

Bishop made his television debut as a panelist in the Talk show The Panel in 2007 and in 2009 Bishop appeared in Channel 4 series Comedy Showcase, he has also been part of the comedy panel show 8 out of 10 Cats and BBC’s stand-up comedy show Live at the Apollo. He has also won 4 times in 5 Live’s Fighting Talk.

In 2009, Bishop started his own show titled Jhon Bishop Meets…