Executive Summary The American religious landscape is undergoing a dramatic transformation. White Christians, once the dominant religious group in the U.S., now account for fewer than half of all adults living in the country. Today, fewer than half of all states are majority white Christian. White Christians now account for fewer than half of the…
Read More America’s Changing Religious IdentityHere are three ways to visualize the monstrous death toll of the coronavirus in this country By Artur Galocha and Bonnie Berkowitz Feb. 21, 2021 A year ago, covid-19 had killed just a handful of people in the United States. Now, the pandemic’s official death toll equals the size of a major city, more than the population of Kansas…
Read More 500,000 dead, a number almost too large to grasp“Yesterday, five board members who oversaw Texas’s power grid resigned. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas had been facing backlash after a winter storm left millions of Texans without power for days during some of the state’s coldest temperatures. The council ordered rolling blackouts to try and preserve electricity throughout the state. But it led to skyrocketing…
Read More Texas Power OutageBy Candace McDuffie, Correspondent, Christian Scientist Monitor Black feminist thought has become crucial to how we navigate the social, economic, and political currents in America. To understand the consequences of pervasive racist narratives that seep into mainstream media – as well as into public policy and legislation – we must first examine how these narratives affect one…
Read More These 5 books by Black women are must-reads this month – and any monthBy 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 piano