The LuLac Edition #4,571, August 25th, 2021

 WRITE ON WEDNESDAY 

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This week we publish a tribute to the late activist Angel Jirau  who passed away last weekend. Ron Felton, former President of the NAACP Wilkes-Barre branch had this remembrance. 

RON FELTON ON ANGEL JIRAU

Yesterday,  when I was informed by a Times Leader reporter that Angel Jirau a former member of the Executive Committee of the Wilkes-Barre NAACP. I invited Angel to the branch because he appeared to be interested after attending one of events at Mount Zion Baptist Church in Wilkes-Barre.

The event was in '2007 after the Wilkes-Barre NAACP had returned from a history tour to the Great Blacks in Wax Museum in Baltimore,  MD. The Wilkes-Barre NAACP had chartered a bus to take many high school students and adults. It was our second tour in a series of three.

The event was held with struggling Youth Council and the event was the burying of the N-Word. A movement by the National NAACP. Angel Jirau was present at that event and other events that would be held by the local branch.

Angel was so excited when I extended an invitation to join the Executive Committee of the Wilkes-Barre NAACP  he went around telling everyone he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Wilkes-Barre NAACP.

As I was recovering from my accident and hospital stay. Angel Jirau and his partner Linda Kohut who had also served as 2nd Vice President of the branch. Put together a fundraiser for me. Angel Jirau's heart was always in the right place caring about the representation of communities of color and them having a voice in the City that many of them would call home.

Rest well Angel knowing that your presence and contribution left the world a better place than when you arrived.

Ron