For just a day, I’m a foster kid

I’m a 2-year-old girl with big brown eyes and curly hair filled with lice. I had been sent home from daycare several times because of my poor hygiene. The daycare called my mom — again — and when she didn’t show up on time, the daycare workers called the child abuse and neglect…

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Senators work to improve Foster care

Children in Nebraska’s foster care system are some of the most vulnerable in the State. They can’t always live like other kids and that can lead to some risky behavior. When kids feel different. They might reach out for some type of connection. Sometimes that puts children in the path…

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Unsung hero: Autherine Lucy Foster

Photo: Alabama Archives On today, Atlanta Free Speech celebrates a pioneer that is still alive. Autherine Lucy Foster is the first African American to enroll at the University of Alabama in the year 1952. When school administrators discovered she was black they denied her admittance, but she later re-enrolled in…

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