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⇢: LaDonna Brave Bull Allard: Standing Rock Elder and Water ProtectorLaDonna Brave Bull Allard was a Standing Rock Sioux elder who spent most of her life educating people about the history of the land and protecting the sacred sites of her people in North Dakota. In 2016, she co-founded the Sacred Stone Camp on Standing Rock Sioux land to resist the building of the Dakota…
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⇢: Author of “Like Water for Chocolate” releases trilogyAward-winning author Laura Esquivel, 70, began writing while working as a kindergarten teacher in her native Mexico. After having had written plays for her students and children’s television programs in the 1970’s and 80’s, she wrote the international best-seller “Like Water for Chocolate” in 1990. It sold over seven million copies around the world and…
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⇢: The significance of celebrating JuneteenthBob Johnson, founding director of Juneteenth Atlanta, one of the largest Juneteenth celebrations in the U.S., discusses the significance of remembering the anniversary of June 19, 1865 – the day the last enslaved Africans and African Americans in the U.S. became free. “Juneteenth is a commemoration of all of those people who fought against slavery.…
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⇢: A Love Story Between Two Lovers of NatureI’m a Jamaican-born immigrant to America where I met a man so elegant and gorgeous, he reminds me of James Bond. After seven years of friendship, when I tried to fix him up with all my most beautiful girlfriends (sometimes they took an instant dislike to each other), we finally realized that we were perfect…
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⇢: Author Francisco Stork: Letting GoOn this late autumn day, the elms and oaks around my house seem determined to let go of all the leaves that have died on their limbs. Everywhere I look there is a letting go. The sky has let go of blue and allowed itself to be covered with a thick mantle of gray. I…