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/Kirby_Howell-Baptiste
Kirby Howell-Baptiste (born 7 February 1987),[1] credited mononymously as Kirby since 2023,[2] is an English actress. She has appeared as a series regular on Downward Dog (2017), Killing Eve (2018), Why Women Kill (2019), and as Death of the Endless in The Sandman (2022–present) and Dead Boy Detectives (2024).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eboni_Booth
Eboni Booth is an American playwright and actress.[1]
https://www.goodmantheatre.org/artists/eboni-booth
Eboni Booth is a writer and actor from New York City. Her plays include Primary Trust (Roundabout Theatre, Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Outer Critics Circle Award) and Paris (Atlantic Theater).
https://www.alexispauline.com/about
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all sentient beings. Her work in this lifetime is to facilitate infinite, unstoppable ancestral love in practice. Her poetic work in response to the needs of her cherished communities has held space for multitudes in mourning and movement. Alexis’s co-edited volume Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines (PM Press, 2016) has shifted the conversation on mothering, parenting and queer transformation. Alexis has transformed the scope of intellectual, creative and oracular writing with her triptych of experimental works published by Duke University Press (Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity in 2016, M Archive: After the End of the World in 2018 and Dub: Finding Ceremony, 2020.) Unlike most academic texts, Alexis’s work has inspired artists across form to create dance works, installation work, paintings, processionals, divination practices, operas, quilts and more.
https://www.bfftherapy.com/morayaseegerdegeare
How we connect and disconnect from each other gives us deep pathways into understanding ourselves. I passionately work with those exploring and finding their voice and identity through unpacking the many complexities of who we are and how we move in the world. Finding joy in how we show up, interrupt capitalism, and internalize often false sense of self and values that we carry with us from systems that grew us but did not always sustain us. I have moved in the non-profit, environmental, tech-startup, and clinical spaces, and all have informed and supported my work with others to understand how we find softness and ease in some places and can desolve in others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Anderson_(dancer)
Lauren Anderson (born February 19, 1965) is an American ballet dancer and a former principal dancer with the Houston Ballet. In 1990, she was one of the first African-American ballerinas to become a principal for a major dance company, an important milestone in American ballet.[1][2] She appeared in many ballets such as Don Quixote, Cleopatra, and The Nutcracker.[3] She retired from the Houston Ballet in 2006 and retired from dance altogether in 2009.[3] In 2016, Anderson had her pointe shoes from her final performance placed in the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.[4]
3rd grade teacher goes viral on TikTok for building her dream classroom
When third-grade teacher N’mmah Kanu entered her new classroom at Red Hill Elementary, her sole suitcase of generic school supplies wasn’t enough to decorate the space in a way that matched her personality and inspired students to learn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michaela_DePrince
Michaela Mabinty DePrince (born Mabinty Bangura; January 6, 1995 – September 10, 2024) was a Sierra Leonean–American ballet dancer who danced with the Boston Ballet, the Dutch National Ballet, and the Dance Theatre of Harlem.
https://www.muse3farm.com/about
These small Black-owned farms are growing crops with the climate in mind
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/11/g-s1-22132/frankie-beverly-maze-obituary
Frankie Beverly, R&B and funk legend, dies at 77
Frankie Beverly, a funk and R&B innovator, singer, songwriter, producer and founder of the band Maze, died Tuesday. He was 77.