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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.
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.”











