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...When I was growing up, I thought that everyone had water hauled in," says Cynthia Hairston, a 47-year-old nurse, who was born in Coal Run. "I had no idea that outside my neighborhood, [running water] was even possible." When she discovered that her white neighbors' request for a water hookup had been approved in 1999, she began agitating for equal rights - talking to other black neighbors, attending city council meetings and lobbying government officials. Then one morning, she woke up to find a severed pig's head in her driveway. "It was very upsetting," she says...
...Muskingum County, the only official water requests from Coal Run residents came in the form of a 1973 petition and 2001 public hearing. "No one ever showed up and asked for water," he says, adding that a large part of Muskingum County still doesn't have running water today. Hairston agrees that's true but claims that those areas are all very rural, whereas Coal Run is a 10-min. drive from the city center - "a stone's throw away." And while Coal Run is not technically within Zanesville's city limits, neither are several surrounding white communities that have...
...instance, in one memorable scene a “modern” young black man (James R. Hairston ’07) struggles physically and emotionally with his 70’s self (Christian I.C. Strong ’09) over a Diana Ross album. Should we leave our worst experiences of trauma and pain in the past? Does the rage of a history and a culture ever exhaust itself? The play raises these questions pointedly...
...Branford College, another Yale dorm, junior Terelle L. Hairston says that the restrictions have deterred students from trekking north to Harvard this year...
...Quite a few students have indicated to the Branford College Council that they are significantly less interested in attending the game and/or virtually not interested in visiting the tailgate,” Hairston, who is vice president of Branford, writes in an e-mail...