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ty Ocean, sweet one, but it is an honor for me to be able to help these beautiful first cousins of our. They have no protection but what is granted them by stupid, selfish, ignorant humans. I am more than happy to be a part of that protection in one small way.
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Journalist Gwen Ifill to be memorialized with USPS Forever stamp
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Journalist Gwen Ifill to be memorialized with USPS Forever stamp The United States Postal Service has unveiled several new Forever stamps that will be issued in 2020. Among the stamp-sized works of art is a portrait of late PBS journalist Gwen Ifill. Ifill's stamp will be a part of USPS' Black Heritage series. The esteemed journalist died in 2016 following a battle with cancer. She was 61. Throughout her career, Ifill moderated vice-presidential debates and worked for 17 years as a moderator on PBS "NewsHour." She was also managing editor of "Washington Week." A 2008 photo of Ifill taken by photographer Robert Severi is now set to appear on a Forever stamp. "Among the first African Americans to hold prominent positions in both broadcast and print journalism, Ifill was a trailblazer in the profession," according to USPS. The Postal Service has been celebrating people, events and cultural milestones on these special stamps since 1847. Ifill's stamp, designed by art director Derry Noyes, is the 43rd stamp in the Black Heritage series, which includes entertainer Lena Horne, civil rights activist Dorothy Height, Carter G. Woodson, who is credited as the "father of black history." The group of 2020 Forever stamps includes an homage to Arnold Palmer, a celebration of the Lunar New Year: Year of the Rat, and a commemoration of Maine's statehood on its 200th anniversary. There will also be four Forever stamps that celebrate different facets of hip-hop: "MCing (rapping), b-boying (breakdancing), DJing and graffiti art," according to USPS. And another stamp will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which granted women the right to vote. While the USPS unveiled these and other stamp designs Tuesday, they did warn that the 2020 stamps "are preliminary and subject to change." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/journal...mp-2019-10-22/ |
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Old Lesbians Guess Famous Lesbians
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Los Tres Grandes | Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945
With more than 200 works by sixty Mexican and American artists, Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945 reorients art history, revealing the profound impact that the leading Mexican muralists—José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, known as "los tres grandes"—had on the course of American art. From Jackson Pollock to Jacob Lawrence to Marion Greenwood, artists in the United States were inspired by their Mexican counterparts to transform elements of national history and everyday life into epic narratives of strength and endurance. Narrated by Cheech Marin and featuring interviews with curators Barbara Haskell and Marcela Guerrero, and artists Aliza Nisenbaum and Derek Fordjour. Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945, on view February 17–May 17, 2020. More info at https://whitney.org/Vida. |
"The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little,"
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"Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of Science makes skepticism a virtue," --Robert K. Merton.
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Virtually Tour 500+ Museums and Galleries
Virtually Tour 500+ Museums and Galleries
By Emily Price https://i.postimg.cc/G2d8h42g/me7b4e7eemdpdpujxsvk.jpg Social distancing means that we’re all spending a lot more time at home, canceling or rescheduling vacations, and probably not going out to things like movies and museums. Staying at home doesn’t mean you can’t experience a little travel, and maybe a little culture, from your home computer. Google Arts & Culture has a collection of more the 500 different museums and galleries up on its site that you can visit virtually. Clicking through to each one will bring up images of some of the museum or gallery’s collection, and in some cases full virtual tours of the museum you can take to pretend like, in a way, you’re actually there. You can check out the full (massive) list of included galleries and museums. The list defaults to listing some of the most popular options first, but you can also sort them in alphabetic order or look at where they all are on a map. Google Arts & Cultural Link to galleries and museums online: https://artsandculture.google.com/partner?hl=en |
Finding out that Marilyn Monroe was raised by a single mother..
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The higher your score, the thinner your bubble. The lower, the more insulated you might be from mainstream American culture. See below for scores Charles Murray would expect you to get based on the following descriptions. 48–99: A lifelong resident of a working-class neighborhood with average television and movie going habits. Typical: 77. 42–100: A first-generation middle-class person with working-class parents and average television and movie going habits. Typical: 66. 11–80: A first-generation upper-middle-class person with middle-class parents. Typical: 33. 0–43: A second-generation (or more) upper-middle-class person who has made a point of getting out a lot. Typical: 9. 0–20: A second-generation (or more) upper-middle-class person with the television and movie going habits of the upper middle class. Typical: 2. |
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Fannie Lou Hamer, Mississippi, 1971, by Louis Draper https://www.vmfa.museum/pressroom/wp...lver-print.jpg More photos at The Guardian found here. |
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I was up before dawn as I often am but today seemed different. I watched as daylight came with no sun to speak of and I could see the huge trees across the way swaying in the breeze, slight rain coming down. I think this is one of my favorite times of day dawn and then dusk. New day when the world comes alive and dusk when all is peaceful (or should be).
I just thought what a beautiful earth we have and many have so little respect for her beauty and gifts to us. OK I will bore you no more, just had to write this down with feeling. |
And people stayed at home
And read books And listened And they rested And did exercises And made art and played And learned new ways of being And stopped and listened More deeply Someone meditated, someone prayed Someone met their shadow And people begin to think differently And people healed And in the absence of people who lived in ignorant ways Dangerous, meaningless and heartless The Earth also began to heal And when the danger ended People found themselves They grieved for the dead and made new choices And dreamed of new visions And created new ways of living And completely healed the Earth Just as they were healed |
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