Duluth writer’s debut essay collection offers chance to ‘play on the page’ Sound Like Trapped Thunder by Jessica Lind Peterson is seven personal essays that consider the natural world with wide-eyed what-ifs. Written By: Christa Lawler | ×
Jessica Lind Peterson, author of Sound Like Trapped Thunder. (Photo by Amy Woodford)
An elderly woman named Doris was mistakenly calling Jessica Lind Peterson and leaving voicemail messages. She wanted Ted, or someone, to clean her apartment, Doris said, or she just wanted to say hi or “Merry Christmas.” She wanted someone to visit her.
All told, there were 20-30 misfired messages from Doris to an unknown Deb, sent during a six- to eight-month period. Lind Peterson, who talked to Doris at least once, saved them all.
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Homepage | News & Events | Get to know 5 notable Arab Americans
Arab Americans have long made outsized contributions to American society, whether in the area of science, politics, the arts or other disciplines.
The 2019 American Community Survey shows an estimated 2.1 million people in the United States reported Arab ancestry. The largest group is of Lebanese ancestry, but others claim Yemeni, Algerian, Saudi Arabian, Tunisian, Kuwaiti, Libyan, Kurdish or other Arab origins.
In honor of National Arab American Heritage Month, ShareAmerica highlights five notable Arab Americans making their mark in the United States and beyond.
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White Supremacist Christianity Drives Trumpâs Loyal Mob. We Must Scream It Down.
Two months have now passed since mobs of mostly white people descended on the Capitol in an attempt to overthrow the results of Novemberâs election, but I am still haunted by images of the mobâs racist violence such as the noose that they put on display and the shirt of a white man in the crowd that read, âCamp Auschwitz.â
These details were more than symbolic â they point to historically materialized forms of horrific anti-Black and antisemitic racism that continue to be stoked by white supremacist strains of Christianity.