Friends of Common Ground: Tuskegee-South Berwick Sister Cities

10/24/2024

Common Ground Sister City voting project on Maine's NBC news.

Residents of the Maine town and Alabama city hope to use their relationship to emphasize the importance of voting.

10/16/2024

Residents of Tuskegee and South Berwick created this three-minute video with snippets from an hour-long conversation about why voting is important.This effort is part of our Sister City’s “Together We Vote: Two Communities, One Nation" project. The video was made to use our combined voice, our relationship, to encourage Americans to vote.

07/29/2024

Libraries are the best.

Libraries have brought me many gifts, including a sister city relationship with Tuskegee, Ala.

06/15/2024

This podcast put out by the Brookings Institute opens with a piece on the importance of broadband and efforts to bring it to Tuskegee and Macon County.

Rural America disproportionately lacks access to high-speed broadband, an essential component of modern life. Though the issue—and many attempts to address it—go back much farther, the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act appropriated $42.5 billion for the Broadband Equity, Access, and De...

03/22/2024

Thanks everyone for the posts, texts, DMs, phone calls, kind words, gracious acts, sweet thoughts and Divine prayers...I felt so special on my birthday because of what my family and friends did to lift me up...Y'all know how to make a girl smile...

07/22/2022

The town of South Berwick now announces its sister city relationship with Tuskegee to every visitor to Town HAll through a new exhibit at the entrance. Here is Town Manager Tim Pellerin unveiling the exhibit last week while Mayor Lawrence F Haygood Jr. and three other residents of Tuskegee - Rovetta Hanna, Sullivan Hanna and Judith D Baldwin, were visiting.

01/29/2022

Last month, JerriAnne Boggis got a call she wasn’t expecting but had long been hoping for.“She called me, and I thought she was kidding,” said Boggis, the Executive Director of the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire. “Because nobody calls you...

01/09/2022

The longer version appeared some places tonight and was bumped by basketball in Maine and Boston. Here it is.

One thousand miles separate Amy Miller, a White journalist, and Guy Trammell, a Black journalist, but they've blended their racial perspectives in their colu...

01/08/2022

This aired Wednesday night on CBS. Supposedly, a longer version will be on CBS Evening News tonight (Saturday) at 6:30. Thank you for all the positive feedback we have gotten this week.

A Black journalist from Alabama and a White journalist from Maine co-write a column to share their different perspectives with their communities and to help ...