Communities That Care Coalition
Promoting health, well-being, and equity among young people in Franklin County and the North Quabbin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_H._Dickerson
Mary H. Dickerson (October 22, 1830 – July 1, 1914) was an African American businesswoman and clubwoman. Dickerson founded several women’s groups in the New England area and in Newport, Rhode Island. Her dress shop catered to prominent clients in Newport and she was the first Black woman to open a shop on her block on Bellevue Avenue.
https://www.si.com/golf/ken-griffey-jr-explains-how-he-became-a-photographer-at-this-years-masters
Ken Griffey Jr.’s surprise presence at this year’s Masters as a photographer is inspiring. The 55-year-old who eclipsed baseball’s precipice is still learning on the job, which he admits.
Griffey took up photography as a second career years ago following his Hall of Fame baseball career. He’s been credited for shooting MLB, NFL and MLS games, as well as IndyCar events. He recently shot the MLB Tokyo Series in Japan, which began the new baseball season. He has plenty of experience behind the lens, but he acknowledged capturing the chase for the green jacket is a new challenge.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/08/nx-s1-5312006/we-want-the-funk-pbs-documentary
We Want the Funk!, an expansive, emotive, celebratory documentary looking at one of history’s most important musical genres, begins simply.
Legendary studio musician Marcus Miller picks up his bass guitar and thumps out a funky, percussive rhythm. Which then builds into a full-on groove by James Brown, leading to an existential question – asked over the course of the film to people like Miller, Parliament-Funkadelic leader George Clinton, The Roots’ Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson and Talking Heads’ David Byrne.
What exactly is the funk?
https://finesseyourclaws.com/pages/about-us
The FinesseYourClaws brand was established in 2020 by Nail Artist Melissa Samuel. Originally from London, Melissa moved to the United States in 2015. She has always had a passion for art and started Nail artistry 12 years ago. After attending Nail school she quickly established herself as an Editorial Manicurist, having her work featured in Pride Magazine, and various other publications.
https://www.redfin.com/news/author/darylfairweather
Daryl Fairweather is the chief economist of Redfin. Her insights have been featured on 60 Minutes, CBS Evening News, as well as in the New York Times and Washington Post.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Young_(poet)
Kevin Young (born November 8, 1970)[1][2] is an American poet and the director of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture since 2021. Author of 11 books and editor of eight others,[3] Young previously served as Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library. A winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as a finalist for the National Book Award for his 2003 collection Jelly Roll: A Blues, Young was Atticus Haygood Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University and curator of Emory’s Raymond Danowski Poetry Library. In March 2017, Young was named poetry editor of The New Yorker.
https://www.patchworkcityfarms.com
Jamila Norman, a.k.a (Farmer J) is a first generation daughter to Caribbean parents whose history is rooted in agriculture. She is an internationally recognized urban farmer, food activist and mother based in Atlanta, GA. She is a University of Georgia graduate with a degree in Environmental Engineering. After 10 years in her professional career, Jamila has now committed fully to operating her independent, organic urban farm, Patchwork City Farms, which she founded 2010.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Polgreen
Lydia Frances Polgreen (born 1975) is an American journalist. She was editorial director of NYT Global at The New York Times, and the West Africa bureau chief for the same publication, based in Dakar, Senegal, from 2005 to 2009. She also reported from India.[1][2] She spent much of her early career in Johannesburg, South Africa where she was The New York Times South African Bureau Chief as well. She was editor-in-chief of HuffPost from 2016 to 2020,[3] after which she spent about one year between 2021 and 2022 as the head of content for Gimlet Media.[4] In 2022, after leaving Gimlet, she returned to The New York Times as an opinion columnist.[5]