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- Slavery is gone, but not mentality (Tucson Citizen)
The symbolism behind Juneteenth - which occurred 133 years ago today - is all too easy for today's African-Americans to forget. Tucson's annual celebration, eating fresh fried-catfish dinners and homemade peach cobbler and entertaining into the night, is fine. But in a much larger sense, Juneteenth is an outward show of American blacks' self-improvement
- Life sa stage - Aucklander
Life sa stageAucklander, New Zealand - 5 hours agoThe respected poet and performer says she only started writing poetry seriously in her 30s because when I was growing up I thought girls like me didn t ...
- Islanders want legal right to be 'true lesbians' - Daily Telegraph
The inhabitants of the island said they were attempting to ban the Greek Gay and Lesbian Union (Olke) from bearing the name "lesbian". Residents of Lesbos now suffer "psychological and moral rape" from the "seizure" of their island's name by gays ...
- Earth Day-related activities in the Northland - Duluth News Tribune
Earth Day-related activities in the NorthlandDuluth News Tribune, MN - 1 hour agoEarth Poetry, 7 pm Fifth annual Earth Day Spoken Word event at the Northern Great Lakes Visitors Center on US Highway 2 just east of Ashland. Free. ...
- Musing the muse - New Statesman
Musing the museNew Statesman, UK - 2 hours agoGarner, the director of the Ledbury Poetry Festival, has done much to draw attention to the fact that the prestigious position has, since its creation in ...
- Patients, Families Invited to Share Stories (Southern Pines Pilot)
Writing about a potentially life-threatening illness can have a positive impact on the people dealing with it, according to researchers who have studied the effects of expressive writing on cancer patients.
- Posters, storybooks spread AIDS awareness in rural India (Feature) - Webindia 123
A Nandalal Bose-inspired 'patua' style painting of a loving couple as a poster endorsing the use of condoms; a storybook in tribal Santhali language talking of the dangers that migrant male labourers face if they are promiscuous - messages on HIV ...
- [Editor’s Note] Dancing in the Kitchen (Jackson Free Press)
After being away from home for three years—only dropping in to pick up left-behind items, or for holiday feasts, or (the more popular) “Can I have some money for fill-in-the-blank?” visits—I forsook my independence and moved home.
- Your pocket guide to poetry (VIDEO) (Erie Times-News)
On weekdays, 13-year-old Rokey Butler is a regular student at Cathedral Center School in Erie.
- Poetry's promoter - Indianapolis Star
Poetry's promoterIndianapolis Star, United States - 13 hours agoAs poet laureate Joyce Brinkman's term winds to a close, she looks back over her three years as the state's poetry's pioneer ambassador. ...
- Eastern Professor Wins Connecticut State University System's Top ... - AScribe (press release)
Eastern Professor Wins Connecticut State University System's Top ...AScribe (press release) - 1 hour ago... she taught courses in children's literature and American poetry and consulted in the development of a new graduate program in children's literature. ...
- Vandals go from bad to verse (The New Zealand Herald)
Call it poetic justice: More than two dozen young people who broke into Robert Frost's former Vermont home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment.
- Nancy's 100 chocolates old - Macarthur Advertiser
Nancy's 100 chocolates oldMacarthur Advertiser, Australia - 3 hours agoMrs Goldie said her mother loved to knit, sew and read poetry some of which she can still remember. Nancy's faith was always very important to her. ...
- Modest proposal, and recommendations - Arts Journal
Saxophonist and Love of Life Orchestra leader Peter Gordon gave one of the most lucid presentations at the recent Experience Music Project's Pop Conference -- being the only person over three days to perform a note of music within their allotted 20 ...
- Rashad Carswell honored with award (The Troy Messenger)
Rashad Carswell didn't think that he would be named the male recipient of the 2008 J.O. "Tip" Colley Scholastic Christian Athletic Award, so he was completely surprised when his name was called at the Troy Exchange Club Awards Banquet Monday night.
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