Andrea Mantovani The 400+ year old Japanese art of kintsugi (golden repair) or kintsukuroi (golden joinery) is a pottery repair method that honors the artifact’s unique history by emphasizing, not hiding, the break. According to art historians, kintsugi came about accidentally (well, it does fit). When the 15th-century shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa broke his favorite tea bowl, he sent it to China…
Read More KINTSUGI AND THE ART OF REPAIRThe Second Amendment consists of just one sentence: “A well regulated militia, being necessary for the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” The Brennan Center for Justice writes, “Today, scholars debate its bizarre comma placement, trying to make sense of the various clauses,…
Read More Second Amendment HistoryBY JOANE AMAY April 8, 2020 Decoding your curl type can be confusing. Several different textures can exist on one head alone (talking about my hair – K) which all have to somehow look cohesive when you style it. Plus, there’s been some debate as to whether the typing system, originally started by hairstylist Andre Walker and modified by folks in…
Read More How to Figure Out Your Curl TypeOn internet privacy, be very afraid Limit the personal information you share on social media. Turn on two-factor authentication especially for important accounts. Browse in incognito or private mode. Use a different search engine like DuckDuckGo or Qwant (go HERE) Before clicking on suspicious links, hover your cursor over the link to view the destination URL. If…
Read More How to Protect Your Online PrivacyBy Washington Post Staff Henrietta Wood After the Civil War, Wood made history by pursuing an audacious lawsuit against the man who had kidnapped her back into slavery. Joy Harjo Harjo is the 23rd poet laureate of the United States. A member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, she is the first Native American to hold the position. “Everyone wants…
Read More Celebrating female leadersBy Gene Wang March 13, 2021 at 11:52 p.m. EST Marvelous Marvin Hagler’s death Saturday at 66, which was announced by his wife, Kay, on the Facebook page for fans of the fighter who legally changed his name to “Marvelous,” shook the boxing world so deeply not only because of his standing as an iconic middleweight of his or…
Read More Marvin Hagler helped boxing soar in the 1980s, and nothing topped his epic TKO of Thomas HearnsThe University of Chicago Center on Law and Finance and the University of Virginia John W. Glynn, Jr. Law & Business Program present “A Workshop on Race and the Law of Business & Finance.” Scholars present their research on how the law interacts with issues of race in business and finance. University of Chicago Law School Dean Thomas J.…
Read More Workshop on Race and the Law of Business & FinanceBY PETER SULLIVAN – 03/13/21 06:55 AM EST Increase vaccine supply Get shots in arms, including in hard-to-reach communities Overcome vaccine hesitancy: An NPR-PBS-Marist poll released this week found 30 percent of U.S. adults overall did not want the vaccine, a number that spiked to 49 percent among Republican men. Make signing up for an appointment easier Make…
Read More Five things that must happen to get people vaccinatedSince its inception in 1964, the Grammy for best album notes has been awarded to just three women. Davis, who won in 1993 for an Aretha Franklin boxed set, was the first. By Daphne A. Brooks March 12, 2021 If it’s Grammy season, it’s time for the annual attention paid to what many see as the Recording…
Read More Thulani Davis and the Secret History of Women Writing Album Liner NotesBy Mark Guarino March 13, 2021 at 8:00 a.m. EST CHICAGO — As a child in the 1950s, Amelia Cooper lived in a multigenerational home in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood that often served as a settlement house for friends of her grandfather, the blues musician Muddy Waters. Many were musicians, arriving from the rural South as Waters…
Read More A push to save landmarks of the ‘Great Migration’ — and better understand today’s racial inequities