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She is forging a new path forward! Dr. Shirley Weber was sworn in as California’s new secretary of state, Weber making history as the state’s first Black Secretary of State, Politico reports. Weber is a San Diego Democrat and former professor of Africana Studies at San Diego State University, where she served for more than four decades. During that […]
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Ocasio-Cortez’s explicit language around trauma may help facilitate other women’s healing, experts added By Julianne McShane in The Lily Alicia Sewell knows something about what it must have been like for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) to reveal in an hour-and-a-half-long Instagram Live video on Monday night that she is a survivor of sexual assault. Last October, Sewell […]
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February 3, 2021 by Anna Lynch Leave a Comment in the Good Men Project With the election of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, we enter into a critical time for the achievable passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). With the House controlled by Democrats and the Senate split with a tie-breaking vote by VP […]
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WNC Historical Association celebrates Black History Month with new exhibit by Edwin Arnaudin in Mountain Xpress Arts HISTORIC SOUNDS: Nathaniel Lowery (aka “Nat the Cat”), who worked as a DJ at Canton’s WWIT radio station in the 1950s, is one of many Black community leaders featured in the exhibit “When All God’s Children Get Together,” on […]
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By Michelle Martin When Dominican Sister Barbara Reid took over as president of Catholic Theological Union on Jan. 1, she was heralded as the first female president of the Hyde Park school, which was founded in 1968 when three men’s religious communities combined their theology programs. Sister Barbara, a member of the Dominican Sisters of Grand […]
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I came across this while doing a form of what I would call, “rummaging through the attic.” Here is a piece I wrote in 2012, and sung by a group of friends. The impetus for posting this was to acknowledge Rachel Carson’s legacy regarding our environment, and to not let her contribution go by unnoticed, […]
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For more than 30 years…Cultivating Connections between People, Plants and Places…amid a 434-acre public garden, The North Carolina Arboretum is located within the Bent Creek Experimental Forest just south of Asheville and adjacent to the Blue Ridge Parkway at Milepost 393. Surrounded and crisscrossed by forested coves and meandering creeks in the botanically diverse Southern […]
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