The classes are held at least once a month on Mondays at 4:00 pm PT / 7:00 pm ET for 90 minutes. In each session, the historian is interviewed by a teacher and breakout rooms allow participants (in small groups) to meet each other, discuss the content, and share teaching ideas. We designed the sessions…
Read More Online Classes: Teach the Black Freedom StruggleFrom the Daily Skimm 2/24/21 This past year has exacerbated calls for an end to police brutality and for the key changes that are necessary to make that happen. But two cases are showing police failing to appropriately respond to mental health calls – and the urgent need for reforms: Angelo Quinto and Daniel Prude. In December, Angelo Quinto,…
Read More Police response to mental health callsSince I’m still a bit unsteady, I talked my Honey through making rice pudding for breakfast. It really is very easy, although you need to pay attention to it. short-grained white rice salt milk Rice Dream sweetener vanilla cinnamon For every cup of rice, you need 4-5 cups of milk and Rice Dream. I use…
Read More Today’s recipe: Rice PuddingHave you ever wondered if something could be frozen and still taste good after? I have, particularly when going out of town and having things in my fridge that would spoil before I got back. So here is the list of freezables: Milk Lemons and limes Cheese (like cheddar, not soft cheese) Avocados Spinach, other…
Read More Can You Freeze Milk?Sunny Sea Gold and Ariel Wodarcyk Updated: Feb. 10, 2021 Nurses spend their work lives caring for the sick—you’d better believe they know how to keep from getting sick themselves! Here are some common health mistakes nurses try NOT to make. Skipping vaccinations: Staying up to date on vaccines is important for adults, not just kids,…
Read More 26 Things You’re Probably Doing That Nurses Wouldn’tBy Fahima Haque February 13, 2021 Sterling K. Brown, an actor who has starred on the hit NBC drama “This Is Us” since 2016, has won multiple Emmys, Screen Actors Guild awards, a Golden Globe, and an NAACP Image Award for his acting. But over the course of his successful career, Mr. Brown has asked…
Read More Why Sterling K. Brown Wanted to Narrate CNN’s Lincoln DocumentaryBy Jonathan A. Knee February 13, 2021 The source of Amazon’s stupefying success is only one of many mysteries — and controversies — surrounding the company that started out selling books online in 1995 and ended 2020 with nearly $400 billion in revenue, 1.3 million employees and a market value of more than $1.5 trillion. …
Read More How Amazon does itBy Ryan Reed Feb. 12, 2021 Nytimes.com Chick Corea, the pioneering keyboardist, and bandleader who died on Tuesday at 79, will be forever regarded as a crucial architect of jazz-rock fusion. For more than five decades, Corea modified his sound to follow that simple maxim — chasing whims from bebop to free jazz to fusion to contemporary classical.…
Read More Chick Corea RIP (June 12, 1941 – February 9, 2021)Charlayne Hunter-Gault, a living connection to this history and a prominent name in television and radio news, worked on the MacNeil/Lehrer Report on PBS starting in 1978, later worked in South Africa for National Public Radio and then CNN. Her work won two Emmys and two Peabody Awards. She’d made history of her own just…
Read More Charlayne Hunter-GaultCelebrating Artists’ Portraits at the Library of Congress for African American History Month blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2021/02/celebrating-artists-portraits-at-the-library-of-congress-for-african-american-history-month/ The Family Life of Ralph Ellison blogs.loc.gov/catbird/2021/02/the-family-life-of-ralph-ellison/ Honoring African American Contributions in Medicine: Midwives blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2020/06/honoring-african-american-contributions-in-medicine-midwives/ Katherine Dunham’s Ethnographic Research in the Caribbean blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2021/02/katherine-dunham-in-the-caribbean/ Frederick Douglass Newspapers, 1847-1874: Now Online blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2020/01/frederick-douglass-newspapers-1847-1874-now-online/ Sojourner Truth and the Power of Copyright Registration blogs.loc.gov/copyright/2020/12/sojourner-truth-and-the-power-of-copyright-registration/ The Beauty Entrepreneur: Madam C. J. Walker blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2020/03/madam-c-j-walker/…
Read More Celebrating Black History: Blog Posts from Around the Library of CongressSaturday February 20 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Matt DeChamplain, solo piano The program features pianist Matt DeChamplain playing the jazz stylings of 10 different pianists (with one or two encores anticipated with his wife, the amazing vocalist Atla DeChamplain). His selections range from rag to bop to modern, Matt is a student, a teacher, and a performer of…
Read More Matt DeChamplain, solo pianoFully virtual this year for the first time, ASALH’s 95th annual Black History Month festival will examine the theme “The Black Family: Representation, Identity and Diversity.” Events open to the public include an author talk with the former astronaut Mae Jemison, a discussion on “How African-American Families Have Been Portrayed in the Media” and music…
Read More Association for the Study of African-American Life and History’s Virtual FestivalLyric soprano Leontyne Price was born on February 10, 1927, in Laurel, Mississippi. Price debuted on Broadway in April 1952. Her successful career took her to leading opera houses around the world and brought eighteen Grammy awards as well as the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 1985, Price gave her final performance at New York’s Lincoln Center in the title role…
Read More Leontyne PriceOn Jan. 6, a virulent form of Christian nationalism burst into the public view. What can religious leaders and others do to bring these people — and the country — back from the brink? By Mya Jaradat Feb 7, 2021, 10:00pm MST In the wake of a tumultuous transfer of presidential power, religious leaders are taking a…
Read More How (White) Americans can address Christian nationalism in their congregations and communitiesHome Security System: Marie Van Brittan Brown was the inventor of the first home security system. Her patent also laid the groundwork for the modern closed-circuit television system that is widely used for surveillance, home security systems, push-button alarm triggers, crime prevention, and traffic monitoring. Talk about Multi-function!!
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