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“Coon hunt” fundraiser may be seen as racist, frets St. Jude hospital

March 5, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Wants to change name but not disassociate from “World’s Largest Coon Hunt”          MEMPHIS,  Tennessee––Unfazed by 28 years of protest against the cruelty to animals involved in the now-41-year-old Decatur County World’s Largest Coon Hunt,  an annual benefit for the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital of Memphis,  the hospital may at last disassociate itself from […]

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