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“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.” —Mary Oliver, an astonishing poet and frequent contributor to Parabola Magazine.
Women’s History Month: 15 Books about Young History Makers
“I am a product of every other black woman before me who has done or said anything worthwhile. Recognizing that I am part of history is what allows me to soar.” – Oprah Winfrey
Women’s History Month recognizes, remembers, and reflects on the stories, accomplishments, and contributions of women in past and present times. In many cases, the women did not set out to make history, but circumstances and events in society pushed them forward to fight for justice or fulfill a need. For some, the realization of their own personal goals in education, the arts, sports, and business, has inspired and motivated others. No matter their claim to fame, the people featured in the books listed have one thing in common, they were all young —some very young—when they made their mark on history. Oprah Winfrey was 19 when she made history as the first Black woman—and the youngest—employed as a news anchor and reporter in Nashville, TN. Carole Boston Weatherford, historian and prolific author of children’s books, wrote Oprah: The Little Speaker, a picture book that focuses on Oprah’s childhood. Hopefully, their stories contain wisdom, authenticity, and life lessons that will influence women and girls everywhere to soar now and in the future. All the titles are nonfiction, except the story of Phillis Wheatley, it is a historical fiction book. Happy Reading!
Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams
Lesa Cline Ransome | James E. Ransome | S & S/Paula Wiseman, 2018
This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality
Jo Ann Allen Boyce | Debbie Levy | Bloomsbury, 2019
Marley Dias Gets It Done – And So Can You
Marley Dias | Scholastic Press, 2018
Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, A Life in Balance
Simone Biles | Michelle Burford | Zondervan, 2016
You Got This!: Unleash Your Awesomeness, Find Your Path, and Change Your World
Maya S. Penn | Gallery Books, 2016
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March
Lynda Blackmon Lowery | Elspeth Leacock | Susan Buckley | Dial Books, 2015
Bonus Book for Older Readers:
This book is not categorized as a children’s/YA book, but it tells the seemingly forgotten story of child prodigy and trailblazer, Hazel Scott, and her involvement with the entertainment industry and civil rights movement.
Hazel Scott: The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist, from Café Society to Hollywood
Karen Chilton | University of Michigan Press, 2010
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One pediatrician says the staff at a shelter facility told her that federal regulations prevented them from touching or holding a crying child to soothe her. The shelter says there's no such rule.
Pediatricians and immigrant advocates are warning that separating migrant children from their families can cause “toxic stress” that disrupts a child’s brain development and harms long-term health.
At the facility in South Texas, Kraft says, the staff told her that federal regulations prevented them from touching or holding the child to soothe her.
While shelter managers and other experts say there is no such rule, Kraft says the confusion underscores why these shelters are not the right place for young children — especially kids who have fled dangerous countries and who have just been separated from their parents. “By separating parents and children, we are doing irreparable harm to these children. The long-term concern of what we call toxic stress is that brains are not developed efficiently or effectively,” Kraft says. “And these children go on to have behavior problems, to have long-term medical problems.”
Critics of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy that leads to the separation of migrant families say it leaves parents in a no-win situation. They can try to get asylum in the U.S. and risk being separated from their children, or they can go back to the countries they fled.
“It’s a moral issue. It’s an ethical issue. But I think it’s also a significant logistical challenge,” says Robert Carey, who ran the Office of Refugee Resettlement under the Obama administration.
That agency is charged with caring for these kids temporarily until they can be placed with sponsors or foster families. It oversees a network of about 100 shelters in 14 states.
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Davidson quit this week because the shelter where he worked in Tucson, Ariz., didn’t have the trained staffing to handle the influx of younger, more traumatized children, he says.
The breaking point for Davidson came, he says, when he was asked to tell two siblings, ages 6 and 10, that they couldn’t hug each other. “They called me over the radio. And they wanted to translate to these kids that the rule of the shelter is that they are not allowed to hug,” he says. “And these are kids that had just been separated from their mom — basically just huddling and hugging each other in a desperate attempt to remain together.” Southwest Key says it has a clear policy that allows touching and hugging in certain circumstances.
Other cartoons that the publisher refused to print before firing Rogers:
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his editor said he was “obsessed with trump” apparently
Photographer John Moore, who took the picture that has come to symbolize the horror of the new family-separation policy, reveals what happened that night.
“Progressive social movements do not simply produce statistics and narratives of oppression; rather, the best ones do what great poetry always does: transport us to another place, compel us to relive horrors and, more importantly, enable us to imagine a new society.” - Robin D.G. Kelley
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”
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2 of 3 beds planted with this year's 51 #dahlia #tubers
Foods Distorted Through Liquid and Glass in Photographs by Suzanne Saroff
Submission Friday:
Sherman Fleming. INVISIBLE n00se. Philadelphia, PA. 2017. In an ongoing series of function actions I have been engaging the public while wearing a hangman’s noose. This function action, begun in 2015, is a public act of resistance to the history and state of terrorism Black people endure. In 2017 I began Invisible n00se, a series of still photographs that chronicle my presence at historic sites along the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia. My objective is to photograph myself at Underground Railroad sites along the east coast as well as document my bearing witness at locations where a hangman’s noose has been discovered. For more information: https://shermanperforms.wordpress.com/2015/09/13/n00se/
Late to #inktober2017, but Inktober 10 seemed a good day to jump into the fray. Happy 100th Birthday, Thelonious Monk! "Jazz is freedom. You think about that." #oneofmyfavorites #rustybutdoesntmatter #exercisethateartmuscle
Thinking about my next project... #celadon #stoneancestors
My parents were my first contact with art: Drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, ikebana, architecture, music. They immersed their hands and my/our lives in looking, seeing, and feeling first. I like to believe that their ability to hold dual lives as working class 2nd generation Pilipinos AND artists were their own form of resistance to the harm in the world. I also imagine that through their making, they created spaces to relinquish themselves to the beauty, the rawness, the vulnerability, the curiosity, and the humanity that art can unlock within us if we give ourselves permission to look and feel deeply. While our world has been swirling in this current madness, my Pa and I snuck away to a life drawing session. The rough, amateur 1-2 minute gestures are by my own hand, but I include this image of my Pa, right before we begin. He's preparing his work area, his materials, finding the comfortable space for himself. Quiet breaths and anticipating, remembering the rhythm of holding his pencil and being in observation. For many years, I've watched him make work, but to sit beside him and make work together at that moment was incredible. Watching him was a gentle reminder for me that art/making can cultivate room for possibility and imagination which is part of what will carry us forward in these times. Thanks, Pa, for a lovely day, and thanks to my friend Amara who invited us to the space...
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