
Lucille Lannigan
Reporter, Report for America Corps Member at Albany Herald
Reporter @Albany_Herald @Report4America | Previously @TheAlligator | @UFJSchool alum
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2 days ago |
albanyherald.com | Lucille Lannigan
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... ALBANY – Tens of millions of Americans were under extreme heat warnings and advisories in the early part of the week as a dangerous heat dome covered the eastern U.S.Temperatures in Albany began soaring to the highest levels of the year on Sunday.
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5 days ago |
albanyherald.com | Lucille Lannigan
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... DAWSON – About 40 people filled the grand front room of the Dawson Carnegie Library recently to share stories and swap tidbits of building history as the Terrell County Historic Preservation Society prepares to hand over the reins of the building’s operation to the city.
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5 days ago |
albanyherald.com | Lucille Lannigan
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... ALBANY – The Albany/Dougherty NAACP convened for its first meeting in nearly a decade, Saturday night to celebrate Juneteenth and send a message. “I hosted this event today to bring awareness to the community that the Dougherty County NAACP is back,” Tracy Taylor, the local organization’s sitting president, said.
Albany Area YMCA’s summer camp students enjoy Georgia Ag Experience mobile classroom – Albany Herald
1 week ago |
albanyherald.com | Lucille Lannigan
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... ALBANY – More than 80 day campers at the Albany Area YMCA shuffled in and out of a mobile trailer that transported them into the world of Georgia’s agriculture, Wednesday. The students used iPads to simulate driving a tractor or planting flowers. They played games that taught them how to care for dairy cows or sorted which fruit and vegetables are produced in Georgia.
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1 week ago |
albanyherald.com | Lucille Lannigan
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... FORT GAINES – Around the same time the U.S. began toting around the idea of turning Juneteenth into a federal holiday, Fort Gaines native Fredrick Sands was learning about the historical date for the first time. Growing up in his small, predominantly black, community, Sands said he never learned about Juneteenth – the actual Freedom Day – in history class, and he knew most of his fellow community members hadn’t either.
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Honored to be recognized alongside so many talented corps members — particularly mesmerized by @BennetGoldstein's mock beaver damn piece, which won first place in the solutions-based category! Grateful to tell this story for the @Albany_Herald

In second place in the solutions-based journalism category, @LucilleLannigan/@Albany_Herald for: “Cooperatives empower black farmers amid historic discrimination, land loss struggles” https://t.co/45TGwvZAIe

RT @klcpegher: Begging people asking for where the news is on any situation to google the local newspaper for the area. @asheville is Ashev…

RT @GroundTruth: 📸 Snapshots from our @Report4America program's special report “Agents of Change: Community efforts to overcome racial ineq…