Children in Jail: Healing Trauma with Poetry
Do you remember going to camp as a child? I certainly do. I spent every summer from about when I was six to fourteen…
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Book Review – Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream by Blair Imani
Photo Credit: Caroline Leavitt @Leavittnovelist So often the history that is taught regarding black citizens is limited to a few solitary time periods or…
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Mark Your Calendars for Children’s Book Week 2018, April 30 – May 6!
What is Children’s Book Week? Children’s Book Week is a week set aside to celebrate children’s books and the joy of reading. Children’s Book…
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Children in Jail: Healing Trauma with Poetry
Do you remember going to camp as a child? I certainly do. I spent every summer from about when I was six to fourteen…
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100 Black Men Welcome Day, Pasadena/Altadena, CA
On August 14, 2017, over 100 black men from Pasadena and Altadena gathered at Altadena Elementary, McKinley Middle School and John Muir High School…
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Interview with Rejected Princesses’ Jason Porath
Jason Porath isn’t the sort of person you’d initially expect to be running a blog about unsung historical women. A straight white man from…
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Rejected Princesses – Women Too Awesome, Awful or Offbeat for Kids’ Movies
When you flip through a history book, it becomes clear pretty early on that men take up the majority of the pages. From kings…
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AAA 2016: Wanna Be an Anthropologist?
Another November has passed, and with it my annual trip to the AAA conference has come to a close. No, this is not the…
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It’s OK, Be a ‘Newbie’ – Ponderment From the Australian Uni Student
I am lying on the grass, enjoying shade and cool earth, about to give a campus tour to first-year university students. I am waiting…
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