admin | January 22, 2022
When the composer Ricky Ian Gordon saw Stephen Sondheims Follies on Broadway in the early 1970s, it was unlike anything hed watched on a stage.
admin | January 14, 2022
Lani Guinier, the daughter of a white Jewish mother and Black Panamanian father whose nomination by President Clinton to head the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice was opposed by mainstream Jewish organizations, died on Friday. Guinier, who went on to become the first Black woman on the Harvard Law School faculty as well as its first woman of color given a tenured post, succumbed to complications from Alzheimers disease, according to The Boston Globe
admin | January 14, 2022
During the Jim Crow era, segregation drove Black children into poor quality schools. But about 100 years ago, a collaboration between two unusual partners built almost 5,000 schoolhouses specifically for Black children throughout the South. Named after one of the partners, Julius Rosenwald, one-third of the Souths rural black school children and teachers were served by Rosenwald Schools by 1928, according to the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund
admin | January 14, 2022
Thursday, January 13 Cuban music group Cortadito headlines Miami Beach Botanical Garden's late-night Garden After Dark series on Thursday. Known as the Buena Vista Social Club of Miami, Cortadito plays the traditional 20th-century Cuban music. Grammy winner Nestor Torres will join the band for a night of Latin classics
admin | January 4, 2022
Photo by Jana ScottA long-awaited dayWith 17 guests at their backyard wedding, a bride and groom kept things small and personal The Couple: Elizabeth Greenfield-Weiss (maiden name Greenfield), 37, grew up in Bethesda and graduated from Walt Whitman High School in 2002. She has a masters degree in social work and is involved with breast cancer outreach and advocacy.
admin | January 4, 2022
Joseph Alois Schumpeter was one of the most prominent political economists during the first half of the twentieth century. He published prolifically in both German and English on questions of economic theory, economic sociology, economic and social policy, and the history of ideas.
admin | December 26, 2021
My name is Meadow Contreras and I am Sicangu Lakota and Chicana. I live in a Jewish suburban neighborhood
admin | December 26, 2021
Italian American Heritage month wrapped up at the end of October, but for members of the Italian-American Club at Bishop OConnell High School in Arlington, the celebration of Italian culture goes year-round. The clubs dedicated moderator and school counselor, Daniel Stabile, helped students get the club off the ground 11 years ago.
admin | December 26, 2021
This month, historian Dana Beck recounts the history of the earliest form of Social Media a century ago in Sellwood Immigrants made up a large portion of Portland's population during the late Nineteenth Century, and most of the newcomers lived east of the Willamette River. Scandinavians, Italians, Finns, Norwegians, Germans, and Greeks most were boys and men they all came to America to make their fortune, with plans then to return to their homeland where they could start a new family if they didn't already have a family waiting for their return.
admin | December 26, 2021
UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Ohio -- University Heights Civic Awards winners: The city of University Heights held its annual Civic Awards event virtually on Dec. 21, during which Dr
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