Graduation

    Seven weeks shy of his 26th birthday, Henry Washington, Jr. ("P.J.") successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, earning him a Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. He also received Ph.D. minors in Theater & Performance Studies and Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. His dissertation, titled "Enfleshing the Criminal: Producing and Policing Black (Sexual) Difference in the Criminological Imagination," explored the prevalence of cultural precon

BY BRIAN HAMILTON
Editor

After much deliberation, Pickens County Schools Aliceville, Gordo, and Pickens County finally set dates for graduation ceremonies and for the first time in recent memory, they will not all be on the same night.
“We threw out some parameters and we let the school make that decision because of everything that was going on,” Pickens County Superintendent Jamie Chapman said.

BY DOUG SANDERS, JR.
Correspondent

We all can recall our senior year of high school, from our last year playing sports, to the sports banquets, to senior play, to senior skip day, to graduation, and then senior trip before going off to college. You wanted to go to school just to see your friends because most of you would never be in school together again. All of those are fond memories for me, as I look back on my senior year at Dora High School in 2004. Several friends and I actually spent some time discussing those times recently through social media, because frankly, we’re nostalgic and it’s human nature.