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Nursery Rhyme Racism: From “Roosevelt Park Rising”
I had no idea how the Roosevelt Park congregation might receive me. The new congregation had inherited the Grandville Avenue building, and the portraits of all the former pastors of the Grandville Avenue church still hung in the council room. They looked stern and boring. Even their clothes were boring—the standard uniform was a black suit, white shirt, and monochromatic tie. Do I need to mention they were all white men? I wore colorful shirts and ties and was loud and animated.
Estranged Pioneers: Race, Faith, Leadership in a Diverse World
I’d been looking for a book that studied the lives of ethnic minority pastors who lead white majority, multiracial churches for a while. Yet I found Estranged Pioneers while looking for another book that had nothing to do with my two-decade journey pastoring such a church! Little did I know how much it resonated with my lived experience; I found myself nodding at almost every page.
Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
Former Harvard University president Drew Gilpin Faust had previously written a beautiful book on the first photographs that came from the killing fields of the Civil War. These photos captured the deep destruction of death that changed the national attitude about dying on American soil. Faust has now turned her pen to her own family’s history of living in the South and her coming of age as a Baby Boomer who challenged her upbringing and Southern social norms during the Civil Rights movement.
Dyslexia Is More Complex Than You Think. Here Are 8 Misconceptions
0 Reading Time: 6 minutes Dyslexia, often misunderstood as simply mixing up letters, encompasses a range of neurological issues affecting reading, writing, and understanding. Many misconceptions cloud the public’s understanding of what dyslexia really is and how it impacts individuals. Dyslexia can manifest in various ways, from difficulty in phonological processing to problems with rapid visual-verbal responding.
Unlearning Limiting Beliefs for Personal Empowerment: Techniques and Personal Stories
3 Reading Time: 3 minutes Limiting beliefs are deeply held convictions that constrain our behaviour, dictate our outlook on life, and dampen our potential. Often, these beliefs form an invisible barrier that holds us back from achieving our highest aspirations, both personally and professionally. Origin of limiting beliefs Limiting beliefs can stem from a variety of sources: cultural norms, early familial interactions, societal expectations, or even past failures.
Sleep Expert Reveals Why You Dream More as the Seasons Change
0 Reading Time: 4 minutes Have you been having incredibly vivid dreams lately? If so, you’re not alone. April is prime time for dreaming, thanks to the changing seasons and the clock change. With this in mind, MattressNextDay has conducted an extensive study that analysed over 279,750 dream-related Google searches to uncover which ones are most likely to occur for Brits. They’ve also teamed up with celebrity psychic and dream analyst Inbaal Honigman to decode what these dreams really mean.
How to Cultivate a Performance Mindset
0 Reading Time: 4 minutes In my journey as a performance coach, I’ve come to understand the profound impact of mindset on our ability to achieve success. Cultivating a performance mindset is not just about setting goals; it’s about adopting a set of core beliefs and behaviours that empower us to excel in every aspect of our lives.
Harnessing the Placebo Effect to Improve Your Well-Being
3 Reading Time: 6 minutes Placebos have no active ingredient, yet even when people know that fact and take them, they can still work. How is that possible? Even more amazing is this: some placebos are more effective than real medicines. Yes, you read correctly. If you understand more about how the placebo effect works, you can harness its effects to improve your wellbeing. This article could be the best sugar pill you will ever take and can keep taking.
Origin
There are certain films that have changed the way Americans see themselves by addressing knotty issues about the history of this country. Films can bypass our defenses and bring us to places of awareness, such as To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Glory, and Saving Private Ryan. These films prompted conversations about race in the South, AIDS in the 1980s, the role of Black soldiers in the Civil War, and the World War II battle on the Normandy beaches where American soldiers gave their lives.
You Have To Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham that Changed America
Paul Kix spent many days as a writer for Boston Magazine, an editor for ESPN the Magazine, and freelanced with GQ Magazine. Being married to a Black woman from Houston and the father of biracial children, the events of George Floyd’s murder on national TV during the pandemic created an existential moment for him between despair and hope. How could Kix find the resources of Black hope in a racially polarized nation in 2020?
The Color Purple
All the ingredients of a sensational, highly acclaimed movie were in place for the new musical film version of The Color Purple. Steve Spielberg, Quincy Jones, and Oprah Winfrey were backing the Broadway musical come to life onscreen. Taraji P. Henson, Colman Domingo, Fantasia Barrino, Jon Baptiste, and H.E.R. were cast in major roles. Check.
A general model for two-locus assortative mating analysis and prediction
Abstract The analytical framework to investigate the effect of assortative mating for phenotypes that are determined by two loci is over a hundred years old and well established by Jennings, Wentworth, Remick, Robbins, and Wright. However, some known aspects of assortative mating have not received a concise analytical analysis or clear expression.
Communicating extraterrestrial intelligence (CETI) interaction models based on the Drake equation
Abstract The Drake equation has proven fertile ground for speculation about the abundance, or lack thereof, of communicating extraterrestrial intelligences (CETIs) for decades. It has been augmented by subsequent authors to include random variables in order to understand its probabilistic behaviour. However, in most cases, the emergence and lifetime of CETIs are assumed to be independent of each other.
Grace: President Obama and the Ten Days in the Battle for America
Does the moment meet the person or the person meet the moment? Maybe both answers could be true for former President Barack Obama when he learned about the killing of nine African American parishioners at Mother Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in June 2015 by white supremacist Dylan Roof. For speechwriter Cody Keenan, he observed the president’s demeanor during the first awful hours the nation heard about the terrible incident.
Till
Mamie Till-Mobley knew Mississippi all too well. She remembered the Magnolia state, not for its botanical beauty, but for its reign of terror upon Black people. It was the main reason she left for Chicago and didn’t plan to go back. When her 14-year-old son Emmett wanted to visit his cousins, she insisted he must downplay his huge personality. She knew trouble might find him.
The Trailblazing History of Black Filmmaking
Did you know the Black action film Shaft saved the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio from bankruptcy? Or that Black films were the first to release soundtracks as a promotional tease? Or that the white producers of The Wiz went broke despite the star power of Diana Ross and Michael Jackson?
Giving the Process a Chance
When I became director of the Offices of Race Relations and Social Justice in 2017, I had no idea what issues of race would surface during my tenure. Through the informed work of friends, I was made aware of a Christian Reformed minister who preached and espoused kinism in his Michigan church in 2019. Kinism teaches that the races should be kept separate in racially pure “religio-ethnic states,” meaning kinism also forbids interracial marriage.
The Gift of Regret!
For two whole years Paul stayed there in his own rented house and welcomed all who came to see him. He proclaimed the kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ—with all boldness and without hindrance! (Acts 28:30-31, NIV) I have three regrets in my life. The first was not taking Spanish in high school. I believed I was going to live and die in the Black community, so I saw no need to learn another language.
Carry On: Reflections for A New Generation
U.S. Representative John Lewis, who died July 2020, was the youngest protégé of Civil Rights giants Martin Luther King, Andrew Young, and Ralph Abernathy. Lewis became one of the main speakers at the March on Washington, D.C., in 1963. Lewis believed the wisdom he learned from the speeches, marches, and late-night conversations from his mentors shaped and sharpened his own run for the U.S. Congress for 17 terms.
Tempered Resilience
Author Tod Bolsinger reflects on his experience of taking a blacksmithing class as a metaphor for discussing the necessary characteristics for leadership in a post-Christian, post-truth context. For Christian leaders and churches who experienced loss after loss from the COVID-19 pandemic, Bolsinger’s book could not have come at a better time. It fosters and forges resilience.
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
The Black church was my training ground in surviving in this thing called America. I was born into the Black church from a generation of people who were enslaved in Georgia and Mississippi before the Civil War. The Black church traveled with my parents from Mississippi to Chicago when John and Essie Smith settled into Lawndale and gave birth to seven children. I was the third child. The Black church taught me that my somebody-ness came from Jesus, despite racism.
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The 'Eternal Condiment' arrives!
Vinegar, the Eternal Condiment published by Spikehorn Press The first book length history of vinegar has now arrived! Available on Amazon the Eternal Condiment is a work almost five years in the making documenting the rise of vinegar from prehistory to the current crazes for balsamic and raw apple cider vinegar! Much of the historical information on this blog derived from research for this book. Get your copy today!
History of Blacks in Vinegar Making
Vinegar has been made for millenia—surely as long as wine and beer. It is simply a dilute solution of acetic acid made by special bacteria that transforms the alcohol into a new compound using oxygen. The first records of vinegar are from ancient Babylon, with others documented in almost every part of the world including Africa. Given that brewed beer and later wine were popular condiments in both Egypt and Kush (ancient Ethiopia), it is likely they made vinegar from these beverages.
Black in the Day: Black American Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1938) ⋆ BlackExpat.com
Of all wars fought, often times civil wars tend to be bring out the passionate worst in people. Spain’s Civil War was no exception in this regard. The Spanish Civil War occupies a special place in 1930s history. It is often regarded as the dress rehearsal for the later and much more devastating World War II given that sides taken and the weapons and strategies used presaged the new warfare that World War II would represent.
Much beautiful singing at The Met's NCA finals, with some standouts
On Sunday I was in attendance for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Grand Finals concert. There were nine singers in this final round of competition, each of whom presented one aria before intermission and one after. I like this plan; one is able to hear them all and form initial impressions, and hear each again later to refine those impressions. The judges then made their collective decision, and five winners were announced immediately.
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