In Memory of Ms Gloria Jean Watkins aka bell hooks
By Carvell Wallace in Zora/The Medium
I’m so sad to be doing this again. Again, and again.
JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE – Meet the Team
Dr. Heidi B. Hammel is an Interdisciplinary Scientist on the James Webb Telescope Project, and her focus is on Webb’s theme “Planetary Systems and the Origins of Life.”
There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis
Edited by Tracy K. Smith, John Freeman
In the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests and the Covid-19 pandemic, the soaring and essential pieces presented in There’s a Revolution Outside, M…
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…
TELL THEM WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED HERE…
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.
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…
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…
The MASS model of community-focused architecture
A project in Rwanda convinced a group of Harvard-trained architects to rethink their building methods, material and labor sources, and the end-use of their buildings.