By Nate Chinen Oct. 21, 2020, 5:00 a.m The last time Keith Jarrett performed in public, his relationship with the piano was the least of his concerns. This was at Carnegie Hall in 2017, several weeks into the administration of a divisive new American president. He had been scheduled to return to Carnegie the following March for another of…
Read More Keith Jarrett Confronts a Future Without the PianoI happen to like spinach, although eating the tinny, metallic green slop masquerading as spinach when I was a child certainly put me off my spinach-feed for a long time. When I was coming up, our vegetables were fresh in season – for us, not another continent – and if they were out of season…
Read More Spinach – Maybe Popeye Had Something!Americans have endured economic crises before but none quite like this one. To capture the depths of the suffering, The New York Times teamed up with 11 local news organizations across the country to document the lives of a dozen Americans who found themselves out of work. Read the full special report here. From “The Week” Pandemic poverty:…
Read More Out of Work in AmericaHARTFORD, CT – The University of Connecticut will pay $249,539 to resolve alleged pay discrimination at its Storrs, Connecticut, campus following a routine compliance review by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP). OFCCP found that the public university and federal contractor discriminated against five female employees in Specialist IA and Specialist…
Read More UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT TO PAY $249,539 TO FEMALE EMPLOYEES TO SETTLE PAY DISCRIMINATION ALLEGATIONS IN U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR INVESTIGATIONBy Meera S. Nair, Crimson Staff Writer October 7, 2020 Harvard Medical School Dean George Q. Daley approved renaming the school’s Holmes Society in honor of physician-scientist William Augustus Hinton, Class of 1905, the first Black tenured professor at Harvard. Until now, the Holmes Society bore the name of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Class of 1829,…
Read More Harvard Medical Society Renamed in Honor of First Black Tenured Professor, Physician-Scientist HintonJuneteenth, June 19, 1865, marks the day when news of the Emancipation Proclamation and the abolition of slavery reached Texas via a Union Army general Gordon Granger, setting off celebrations among the newly freed. It became an official Virginia state holiday on October 13, 2020. As far as I’ve been able to find, Virginia and…
Read More Virginia Lawmakers Vote Unanimously to make Juneteenth a State HolidayThe comments, shown in a new documentary, are the strongest yet from a pontificate that has taken a more tolerant and inclusive tone. By Jason Horowitz Oct. 21, 2020 Updated 6:05 p.m. ET ROME — Pope Francis expressed support for same-sex civil unions in remarks revealed in a documentary film that premiered on Wednesday, a significant break from…
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Read More Cariuma?For more information on black poets, and to read some incredible poetry, go to Africanamericanpoetry.org, or theroot.com, or poets.org, or curiosityshots.com – or search for the many other sites available. HERE IS A SHORT LIST OF SOME POETS I ENJOY TO GET YOU STARTED: Gwendolyn Brooks Rita Dove Langston Hughes Lucille Clifton June Jordan Claudia Rankine Derek Walcott Kate Rushin…
Read More BLACK POETRY DAYThere are 50 states, the District of Columbia, and 5 permanently inhabited territories: the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the US Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands. The average age of Members of the House at the beginning of the 116th Congress was 57.6 years; of Senators, 62.9 years. Sen. Dianne Feinstein…
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