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ByClifford L. Williams San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) will host a celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. National Day of Service on Monday, January 18, 2021 from 12:00 Noon to 5:00 PM via its YouTube and Facebook channels. MoAD’s Director of Public Programs, Elizabeth Gessel, said the online, live celebration will include storytelling, poetry readings and discussions on social justice. “Traditionally, the MLK Day of Service is our biggest day of the year at the m...

Eastern Michigan University and The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History present the 2021 Keynote Speaker Event for the annual MLK Celebration was on Monday, Jan. 18, and Yamiche Alcindor was the keynote speaker.

UpdatedMon, Jan 11, 2021 at 11:26 am ET Reply As a new year begins, Flushing Town Hall continues its popular Virtual Jazz Jam: Celebrating the Legacy of Louis Armstrong, part of Flushing Town Halls dynamic online entertainment, FTH at Home!. On Wednesday, January 13, 2021 at 7:00 PM (EST), jazz musicians from New York City and across the world will play tunes reflecting the pursuit of racial justice in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Amid the pandemic, with its doors closed to in-person perfor...

Carnegie Museum of Art announces three new senior leadership appointments L to R: Ronald Lee Newman, photo by Scott Suchman; Dana Bishop-Root, photo by Jonathan Castillo; Aryn Beitz, photo by Tom Little. PITTSBURGH, PA .-Carnegie Museum of Art announced today three new senior leadership hires. The museum named Ronald Lee Newman as Deputy Director; Dana Bishop-Root as Director of Education and Public Programs; and Aryn Beitz in the role of Director of Design and Publishing. Also on Artdaily “I ...

As the Department of Defense prepares for future military operations in the multi-domain environment, the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research (USAISR) is working to develop solutions for the challenges of prolonged field care, particularly burn casualties, which are expected to be a major concern on the future battlefield. “The U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research (USAISR) is made up primarily of research and clinical arms. Together, one of their goals is to create novel solutions to...

Experiment, collaborate C. Morgan Grefe
Rhode Island Historical Society executive director
C. Morgan Grefe became executive director of the Rhode Island Historical Society in 2011, after serving as director of its Goff Center for Education and Public Programs for six years. She is the author of “The World in One Square Mile: Central Falls,” a children’s historical fiction book. / COURTESY GAGE M. PRENTISS Rhode Island’s more than 450 history and heritage organizations prese...

The Beauty: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015), which was longlisted for the National Book Award, and Given Sugar, Given Salt (HarperCollins, 2001), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her ninth collection, Ledger, is forthcoming from Knopf in March 2020. She has edited and cotranslated books with Mariko Aratani and Robert Bly. Hirshfield’s honors include the Poetry Center Book Award, the Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Literature, the Bay Area Book Reviewe...

You have to slow growth of healthcare entitlement, put social security back on firm foundation and raise revenue through reformed tax code. everybody who looks at it comes out that way. now i think a very substantial substantial member of congress of both parties understand that. but they are caught in a political game of blaming each other. >> economist author of the book "classical economic principles and wealth of nations." >> if you want to get the economy growing at a healthy rapid rate in ...