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I Am the Custodian of Two Brass Candelabras

March 3, 2022

When the Earth Started to Sing

March 2, 2022
in Daily Good This sonic journey written and narrated by David G. Haskell brings us to the beginning of sound and song on planet Earth.

In Disguise

February 28, 2022
For half an hour, The Kuklapolitans brought us together; my father and neighbor kids who would pile in around the 12” Zenith.

What to Know About Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Historic Nomination to the Supreme Court

February 28, 2022
in The Smithsonian Magazine Jackson, a 51-year-old Harvard graduate and former public defender, would be the first Black woman on the Court

SELC’s Chandra Taylor-Sawyer on environmental justice in the South

February 27, 2022
Chandra Taylor-Sawyer is a senior attorney in our Chapel Hill office and leader of our Environmental Justice Initiative.

THE AGE OF LONELINESS – in a Deepening Sensation

February 27, 2022

Remembering Poet Laureate Ella V. Costner

February 12, 2022
by Frances Figart in The Great Smokey Mountains Association Not long ago, I got a voice message from Carol Treiber, a member of Great Smoky Mountains Association, saying that she had read a story…

Eileen Crist – Abundant Earth: Toward an Ecological Civilization

February 12, 2022
Eileen is Associate Professor Emerita of the Department of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Boston University, and a B.A., also in sociology, f…

20 books that are essential reading for Black History Month

February 5, 2022
Offered by Flatiron Writers Room

Racism in Disguise? (No, not even disguised!)

February 4, 2022
Let’s not pretend, (to do so is embarrassing.)

A Black Woman Could Make the Supreme Court More Reflective of American Values

January 26, 2022
By Allison Gaines in Zora, and in MEDIUM DAILY DIGEST It’s time to do what we can to put a Black woman on the bench. Let’s unpack this.

Hoodwinked

January 24, 2022
My Grandmother raised black Cocker Spaniels she called  “Midnights.”