Solutions sought for black soldiers’ final resting place

Westtown’s Shiloh AME graveyard center of dispute between property owner and advocates State Rep. Stephen Barrar (R-160) (center, light blue shirt) listens intently to information about the burial site at the former Shiloh AME Church in Westtown, Monday. Barrar and State Rep. Dan Truitt (seated at back near wall in navy/red shirt) were among two of many local and county officials to attend a...

Letter: Freedom, justice, equality

To The Editor, I continue to ask myself this question, why should African-Americans, Latino-Americans, middle-class Americans and poor Americans serve in the United States Armed Services? I say this because of what the Tea Party, the Conservatives and the Republicans in the U.S. Congress and in some state legislatures are doing to the American people. For example, disenfranchisement in voting, threatening...