Hartford Spiritualism And Slavery At The Stowe Center Spiritualism as Resistance: Spirits at Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Hartford Feb. 2, 2024 The central truth of American history is that every question you can ask has its answer Jamil Ragland 5 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Black Inventors Tour Reflects Need For Black History Month, After All The start of Black History Month always elicits competing feelings for me. On the one hand, I enjoy learning in general, and specifically about my people and what they’ve Jamil Ragland 2 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
LA Grandmas Gone Wild YOSHIE SAKAI: GRANDMA ENTERTAINMENT FRANCHISE Vincent Price Art Museum Monterey Park, Cal. Through Feb. 3, 2024 Like the siren song of a real nightclub, a karaoke version of “Fergalicious” lures Rebecca Giordano 28 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
Hartford How Violence Shaped Our History Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America Mark Twain House Hartford Jan. 19, 2024 My journey through college was not an easy one. It took me three different Jamil Ragland 22 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Finding My Story On Gallery Walls First Sundays Oakland Museum of California 1000 Oak St. Oakland The Oakland Museum of California is not that crowded around noon on this Sunday. But there are a lot of Robin Lapid 11 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Why The “Saints” Came Marching In When Two Worlds Met: Through European Eyes Stanley-Whitman House Farmington Nov. 16, 2023 The European colonization of the Americas is one of those world-altering events in history. There were nearly Jamil Ragland 17 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
Hartford Black History, Both Lost and Found, at the Old State House Why Hartford’s Ethnic Heritage Matters Today Connecticut’s Old Statehouse 800 Main Street, Hartford Do you know who Catharine Freebody was? If you’ve never heard that name, you’ Jamil Ragland 6 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
NW Arkansas Paging Lou Reed, In The City That Birthed Walmart At the Meteor Guitar Gallery, an up-and-coming music venue in Northwest Arkansas, I was hoping to see a Lou Reed tribute act. The act, a local band audaciously named Blew Mickey Mercier 4 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
Oakland Mini Museum Preserves Black Panther Art Of Revolution As with any political or social movement, visual art, from murals to posters to newspaper illustrations, played a central role in the Black Panther’s efforts to promote revolutionary change. Sarah Bass 17 Aug 2023 · 4 min read