generations
CNN — Maudy Adkinson Johnson remembers walking across cow fields and busy roads as a child to get to her one-room schoolhouse in Spring Hill, Tennessee. It was the 1950s, and Johnson said the Lee-Buckner School was teaching her how to read, write and do math problems. She was also making friends with other Black children.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — For the annual fall renewal of her shaman spirit, Mee Vang Yang will soon ritually redecorate the tall altar in her living room where she keeps her father’s ring-shaped shaman bells. She carried them across the Mekong River as the family fled the Communist takeover of her native Laos four decades ago. […]
CNN — Lee Vernon Newby, Jr., was still a teenager when he became one of the first African American men to serve in the U.S. Marine Corps. “I was young and scared. I was so nervous, but I wanted the opportunity,” he said.
Northumberland County, Virginia CNN — Everyday when PJ Haynie wakes up, he prays to God for two things. “As farmers, we go out and as they say, we plant and pray,” Haynie said. “We plant a crop … we pray for rain; we pray for prices.”
Locally produced program explores regional Black history and experiences from pre-civil war to today. June 6, 2023 by Strategic Communication Ozarks Public Television (OPT)’s newest locally-produced history documentary, “Generations: African American Experiences in Springfield and the Ozarks” will premiere at 8 p.m. June 15. This feature-length presentation delves into the pivotal role African Americans have […]
By ROSELLA DEPIETRO, Hennepin History Museum Daren Hill. Portrait of Dawn, 2023. Digital collage, copper leaf, paper on canvas. Main image taken by Gregory Hill. Courtesy Darren Hill The newest exhibit at Hennepin History Museum is an exploration of the artistic vision of three generations of Minnesota Black men. The Bond Between Us was curated […]
In the photograph speckled with age, the gaze of the woman is direct. The hands, strong, with long, tapered fingers, hold a scrap of fabric. She wears an apron. A closer look reveals it is more than a modest, domestic icon. It is an artistic statement. The material is common, cheap cotton, embellished by an […]
Yi notes that siblings, for example, influence one another’s well-being in childhood and can later serve as sources of support in adulthood. Grandparents and other relations – especially grandmothers and aunts – often serve as primary or secondary caregivers and as critical sources of in-kind support in families. “Previous family demographic research by other scholars […]
Katherine Paul, who releases music as Black Belt Eagle Scout, has a new album called The Land, the Water, the Sky coming out February 10 on Saddle Creek. The record reflects upon her journey—focusing on both the grief and joy—from Portland back to her . . .
In this episode of NAMI’s podcast, NAMI CEO Daniel H. Gillison Jr. speaks with Juno Pitchford, NAMI’s HBCU manager, and Daniel Hobdy, a member of NAMI Baton Rouge, about their experience with depression and navigating resources over the years, across different generations. Each having attended Southern University, they share insights about how the mental health […]