Biography of Anna Julia Cooper
in Douglass Day 2022
Anna Julia Cooper (1858 – 1964) was a visionary black feminist leader, educator, intellectual, and activist. Born into slavery in 1858, she became the fourth African American…
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in DailyGood from the Beshara Magazine
Over the past five years or so, there has been an emerging awareness of a body of work that arose during the Second World War. Fragments of it have been kno…
Matthew Fox on Creation Spirituality
CS is about recovering nature and all of creation as sacred again.
Out dancer Josephine Baker becomes first Black woman interred at the Pantheon in Paris
Out American-born dancer Josephine Baker will be the first Black woman – and the sixth woman ever – to be interred at the Pantheon in Paris, one of the highest postmortem honors in France.
Artist Spotlight: Ruth Orkin on the Scene
The National Museum of Women in the Arts
Award-winning photographer and filmmaker Ruth Orkin (1921–1985) approached her work with the aim of telling a story in a single frame.
Praise Song – after the Arbery verdict
by Barbara Crooker Praise the light of late November, the thin sunlight that goes deep in the bones.
The River by Coco
ONE VOICE LGBTQ CHOIR in Minneapolis sings “The River” by Coco Love Alcorn Offered by Debbie Nordeen and Zoe Nicholie
EASTER 1946
She studies a photo. In Sunday-best, the family layered up the front steps, eyes unseeing. Her son encased shoulder to foot in his Daddy’s army jacket.
Out of Thin Air
One of the last two steamships fitted with sails, huge spread of canvas, three steel masts to court the wind, she delivered my father’s family to the new world, from the cargo hold called ‘Tw…
Fanny Mendelssohn – The Year
Fanny Mendelssohn (1799 – 1847) began composing Jahr in August of 1841 as a twelve-part piano suite based on the months of the year. In 1846 she wrote to her brother Felix Mendelssohn to inform him…
The Historic Mars Hill Anderson Rosenwald School
History Overview – Long Ridge Community, Mars Hill, NC
The Vision of Dr. Booker T. Washington & Mr. Julius Rosenwald
Julia Alvarez – Contemporary Author
Julia Alvarez was born in New York City on March 17, 1950, the second of four daughters. Three months later, her parents returned to their native Dominican Republic after a self-imposed exile from G…