Communities That Care Coalition
Promoting health, well-being, and equity among young people in Franklin County and the North Quabbin
For b. Robert Moore, art is personal — and political.
The Des Moines-based artist does not shy away from sharing the scars of his past in his new exhibition “In Loving Memory,” on display at the Des Moines Art Center through Oct. 20.
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/09/nx-s1-5034337/tessie-prevost-new-orleans-school-desegregation-dies
NEW ORLEANS — Tessie Prevost, a pioneer of school desegregation in the Deep South, has died.
She was one of the first young Black girls who integrated New Orleans public schools after federal courts forced the system to abide by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown vs. the Board of Education ruling that declared segregated schools unconstitutional.
Zarinah Lomax is an uncommon documentarian of our times. She has designed dresses from yellow crime-scene tape and styled jackets with hand-painted demands like “Don’t Shoot” in purple, black, and gold script. Every few months, she curates exhibits of dozens of portraits of Philadelphians — vibrant, bold, bigger-than-life faces — at pop-up galleries to raise an alarm about gun violence in her hometown and America.
https://www.crystalewilkinson.net/bio
Crystal Wilkinson, a recent fellowship recipient of the Academy of American Poets, is the award-winning author of Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts, a culinary memoir, Perfect Black, a collection of poems, and three works of fiction—The Birds of Opulence , Water Street and Blackberries, Blackberries.
Louisiana plantation where historic slave revolt started now under Black ownership
https://www.thedescendantsproject.org
Banner and her twin sister Joy are co-founders of the Descendants Project, a non-profit in Louisiana’s heavily industrialized river parishes – just west of New Orleans. Early this year, the group bought the Woodland Plantation Home, putting it in Black ownership for the first time in more than two centuries.
https://www.world2thewhyze.com/about
World 2 the Whyze belivies that the world is filled with wisdom and we should be guided by our curiosity to make our way around it and explore
To create experiences and resources that encourage travelers folks to explore their connection and commitment to the African Diaspora.
A world where Black people are Borderless, Intentionally Interconnected, Joyful & Independent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Manuel
Simone Ashley Manuel (born August 2, 1996[1]) is an American professional swimmer specializing in freestyle events.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_McLaughlin-Levrone
Sydney Michelle McLaughlin-Levrone (née McLaughlin; born August 7, 1999) is an American hurdler and sprinter who competes in the 400 meters hurdles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Lyles
Noah Lyles OLY (born July 18, 1997) is an American professional track and field sprinter who primarily competes in the 100 meters and 200 meters.