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James Lee and his Mobile Station Celebrate 50 Years Serving in the Community

E. Mesiyah McGinnis, Staff WriterNovember 13, 2024

Hundreds of customers and community members gathered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Mobile gas station on the corner of Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. and Buckingham Road, owned by James Lee, a Korean immigrant who purchased the business in 1974, and has lasted in a predominately Black neighborhood.

Dr. Maulana Karenga Opinion

Following Our Foremother Fannie Lou Hamer: Courageously Questioning America

Dr. Maulana KarengaOctober 18, 2018

In these uncertain and unsettling times of the self-silencing of the lambs, the fearful and fatigued surrender of summer soldiers, and the out-of-control hate-filled howling of ice age winter wolves, lessons and models of struggle and resistance from the sacred narrative of our history are both appropriate and compelling.