What to Know About Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Historic Nomination to the Supreme Court
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
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
Eileen Crist – Abundant Earth: Toward an Ecological Civilization
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
Offered by Flatiron Writers Room
Racism in Disguise? (No, not even disguised!)
Let’s not pretend, (to do so is embarrassing.)
A Black Woman Could Make the Supreme Court More Reflective of American Values
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.
JUDY CHICAGO: The Dinner Party 1982
This featured plate is titled “Sacajawea.”
The Dinner Party is an installation artwork by feminist artist Judy Chicago. Widely regarded as the first epic feminist artwork, it functions as a symbo…
Jane Hirshfield: The Fullness of Things
in The Daily Good, January 2022
“The esteemed writer Jane Hirshfield has been a Zen monk and a visiting artist among neuroscientists. She has said this: ‘It’s my nature to question, to look…
APPALACHIA (APP-a-LATCH-a)
A gift of music from a dear friend, to brighten this new year
Dear Jean and Va,
I’ve been thinking of you and simply wanted to send a message of thanks and joy in music.
WOMEN HOLD LEADING POSITIONS IN BLACK AMERICAN CHURCHES
When a bishop’s post arose in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in 2010, Teresa Jefferson-Snorton looked around to see if any women were volunteering to run for office. None were.