Author: Rachel Stoler

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/20/nx-s1-5073880/mountains-film-miami-little-haiti

Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood is on borrowed time. A film is documenting it all.

https://www.nepm.org/people/kaliis-smith

Kaliis Smith is a radio host and producer for NEPM’s The Fabulous 413. She was most recently host and producer at The River 93.9/WRSI where she appeared on Mornings with Monte for the Nerdwatch segment and hosted weekday evenings.

A guitarist, she’s in several local bands including Ex-Temper, The Brass, and Soul Magnets, and is the author of “Finger and Thumb.” “Sir Morien,” a children’s book co-written with New York Times bestselling author Holly Black, is due out in 2023. Kaliis is originally from Roxbury, and now lives in Springfield.

https://www.charlesthompson.net/blank-1

Charles Thompson makes furniture and carvings in a humble workshop on a humble hill in Heath, MA. 

https://www.gillccwoodworks.com/about

We are rooted deep in the tradition of craftsmanship. Over the years, owner and woodworker Sam French has developed his own voice in this tradition through reshaping nature’s raw displays of beauty into new yet familiar forms. Sam creates unique pieces of custom made wood furniture and custom live edge furniture from materials he sustainably harvests and mills right at the shop. This offers an opportunity to be part of an organic, full-circle process honoring the natural beauty of the tree itself, from tree to tables.

https://www.carlossimonmusic.com/biography

Carlos Simon is a native of Atlanta, Georgia, whose music ranges from concert music for large and small ensembles to film scores with influences of jazz, gospel, and neo-romanticism. Simon is the Composer-in-Residence for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the inaugural Boston Symphony Orchestra Composer Chair, and was nominated for a 2023 GRAMMY award for his album Requiem for the Enslaved.  

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/15/g-s1-17011/keyon-harrold-tiny-desk-concert

It’s a family reunion when jazz, R&B and hip-hop get together, and Keyon Harrold brought it all to his Tiny Desk, where he talked about “the good, the band, and the ugly of what life can be.”

https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2024/08/16/g-s1-16960/african-art-exhibit-statues-barbershops-colonial-era

Africanus Okokon, a Rhode Island-based artist who is the American-born son of a Ghanaian mother and a Nigerian father.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Davis

Ernestine Carroll Davis, (August 5, 1909 – January 30, 1994)^[1][2] better known as Tiny Davis, was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist.

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/14/g-s1-17050/wally-amos-famous-amos-cookies-dead

Wally Amos, the entrepreneur behind the Famous Amos cookie enterprise, has died. He was 88 years old.

https://acdi.uct.ac.za/contacts/joyce-kimutai

Joyce Kimutai is a Research Associate in the Analysis and Interpretation of Climate Data for Extreme Weather. Joyce completed her PhD under AXA Research Chair Programme in African Climate Risk as part of a multi-disciplinary team from the University of Cape Town and University of Oxford, working on research spanning climate, hydrological, agricultural, ecological and economic and adaptation science.