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New York City (NYC) is known for its scintillating lights, bustling vibe, tall skyscrapers, and melting pot of cultures. But did you know that this sprawling metropolis was once a Dutch trading outpost? As a result, New York was once known as New Amsterdam.
NYC is made up of 5 boroughs: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Staten Island, and Queens. New York City is a hub for education, commerce, finance, media, technology, international diplomacy, entertainment, tourism, innovation, art, sports, and fashion.
Must-see attractions in NYC include: Times Square, The Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, The Empire State Building, Top of the Rock Observation Deck, Rockefeller Center, Grand Central Terminal, Coney Island, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET), SoHo, One World Trade Center, Chinatown, Little Italy, The Brooklyn Bridge, The High Line, Chelsea Market, Central Park, American Museum of Natural History, Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, 9/11 Memorial & Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, United Nations (UN) Headquarters, Yankee Stadium, Broadway, Madison Square Garden, Barclays Center, Fifth Avenue, Columbus Circle, Madison Square Park, Bryant Park, City Hall Park, Battery Park, Flatiron Building, New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Federal Hall, New York City Hall, Madison Avenue, Park Avenue, Hamilton Grange, Hudson Yards, Pier 17, South Street Seaport, Bank of America Tower, New York Public Library, Chrysler Building, Tudor City, Hudson River, East River, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Museum of American Finance, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and Washington Square Park.
The headquarters of the United Nations is located in New York City. NYC is home to numerous universities including Columbia University, New York University (NYU), Pace University, Fordham University, St John’s University, City University of New York (CUNY), Barnard College, New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), and The New School. NYC is also home to NASDAQ, and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). John F. Kennedy International Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport, and LaGuardia Airport are the three airports that service New York City. NYC is also home to sports teams such as the New York Rangers, Brooklyn Nets, New York Knicks, New York Liberty, New York Yankees, and New York Mets. The New York Giants and New York Jets play their home games across the Hudson River in New Jersey.
Collections as Data: Stewardship and Use Models to Enhance Access
The rise of accessible digital collections coupled with the development of tools for processing and analyzing data has enabled researchers to create new models of scholarship and inquiry. The National Digital Initiatives team invites leaders and experts from organizations that are collecting, preserving and providing researcher access to digital collections as data to share best practices and lessons learned. This event will also highlight new collaborative initiatives at the Library of Congress that seek to enhance researcher engagement and the use of digital collections as data.
Hashtag: #AsData
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⁴ᴷ⁶⁰ Walking NYC (Narrated) : Canal Street, Manhattan in its Entirety from Chinatown to Hudson River
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In this video, I walk Manhattan's Canal Street in its Entirety from Chinatown to the Hudson River. I begin my walk by exiting the East Broadway subway station on the F line.
From Wikipedia:
Canal Street is a major east–west street in Lower Manhattan, New York City, running from East Broadway between Essex and Jefferson Streets in the east, to West Street between Watts and Spring Streets in the west. It runs through the neighborhood of Chinatown, and forms the southern boundaries of SoHo and Little Italy as well as the northern boundary of Tribeca. The street acts as a major connector between Jersey City, New Jersey, via the Holland Tunnel (I-78), and Brooklyn, New York City, via the Manhattan Bridge. It is a two-way street for most of its length – from West Street to the Manhattan Bridge – with two unidirectional stretches between Forsyth Street and the Manhattan Bridge.
Timestamps
1:45 - Exiting the East Broadway Subway Station
2:50 - Division Street
4:00 - Orchard Street
4:40 - Allen Street
5:55 - Eldridge Street
7:00 - Forsyth Street
8:28 - Chrystie Street
9:55 - Bowery
11:40 - Elizabeth Street
12:35 - Mott Street
13:45 - Mulberry Street
14:50 - Baxter Street
15:45 - Centre Street
17:25 - Lafayette Street
19:45 - Broadway
20:40 - Mercer Street
21:40 - Greene Street
23:40 - West Broadway
24:30 - 6th Avenue
26:45 - Varick Street
28:55 - Hudson Street (Holland Tunnel Entrance)
30:30 - Renwick Street
31:25 - Greenwich Street
32:35 - Washington Street
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Inside Baseball: Baseball Collections as Data
As part of programming related to the Library's Baseball Americana exhibition, Library of Congress Labs hosted a collaborative flash build with JSTOR Labs of new digital tools to explore the Library's baseball-related collections data, building resources and visualizations.
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Sonic Futures: The Music of Afrofuturism
Three musical giants who have made monumental contributions to Afrofuturism as we know it today, George Clinton, Nona Hendryx, and Vernon Reid, in conversation with world-renowned scholar and critic Alondra Nelson. The panelists discuss Afrofuturism – where it came from, where it is going, and what it has to offer us. Featuring opening remarks by Gus Casely-Hayford, Director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art.
Panelists:
Nona Hendryx:
In the spirit of two-fisted political singer songwriters such as Nina Simone, and Joni Mitchell, Nona Hendryx tackles social issues, love and politics with a smoky vocal tessitura somewhere between funk and the end of the stratosphere. Hendryx’s legendary career spans decades of sound and style evolution. Fans know her as a founding member of the group who morphed from Patti Labelle and The Bluebells, into the Rock & Funk Glam Diva's 'Labelle' with the #1 record, Lady Marmalade. Nona Hendryx emerged as the chief songwriter of the group’s socially conscious and illuminating message songs.
George Clinton
George Clinton is one of the foremost innovators of funk music and was the mastermind behind the bands Parliament and Funkadelic. Clinton has become recognized as the godfather of modern urban music. Beats, loops, and samples of P-Funk have appeared on albums by OutKast, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes, Missy Elliot, De La Soul, Fishbone, and many others. As Clinton has said, funk is the DNA of hip-hop and rap. In 1997, Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Guitar Center's Hollywood Rock Walk, and earned a Lifetime Achievement Award at the NAACP Image Awards.
Vernon Reid
London-born American guitarist, founder of Living Colour and a co-founder of the Black Rock Coalition, Vernon Reid has done a great deal to undermine stereotypical expectations of what kinds of music black artists ought to play; his rampant eclecticism encompasses everything from hard rock and punk to funk, R&B and avant-garde jazz, and his anarchic, lightning-fast solos have become a hallmark. In 1980, he joined Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society, and over the course of the decade, Reid went on to work with a wide variety of experimental musicians including Defunkt, Bill Frisell, John Zorn, Arto Lindsay, and Public Enemy. Vernon has also composed for noted film-makers Charles Stone 3rd, Shola Lynch, Gabri Christa, Brad Lichtenstein, Kasi Lemmons, Laurence Fishburn, & Thomas Allan Harris.
Moderator:
Dr. Alondra Nelson
Alondra Nelson, President of the Social Science Research Council and Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, is an acclaimed researcher and author, who explores questions of science, technology, and social inequality. Her books include Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination, The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome and Technicolor: Race, Technology and Everyday Life. In 2002, Nelson edited “Afrofuturism,” an influential special issue of the journal Social Text, drawing together contributions from scholars and artists, who were members of a synonymous online community she established in 1998.
History of the United States Navy | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:06:21 1 Foundations of the Old Navy
00:06:33 1.1 Continental Navy (1775–1785)
00:13:13 1.2 Disarmament (1785–1794)
00:17:04 1.3 Establishment (1794–1812)
00:23:33 1.4 War of 1812 (1812–1815)
00:27:52 1.5 Continental Expansion (1815–1861)
00:37:15 1.6 American Civil War (1861–1865)
00:42:50 1.7 Decline of the Navy (1865–1882)
00:46:54 2 New Navy
00:47:05 2.1 Rebuilding (1882–1898)
00:50:11 2.2 Spanish–American War (1898)
00:52:41 2.3 Rise of the Modern Navy (1898–1914)
00:56:59 2.4 World War I (1914–1918)
00:57:13 2.4.1 Mexico
00:57:57 2.4.2 Preparing for war 1914-1917
01:02:34 2.4.3 Fighting a world war, 1917–18
01:05:57 2.5 Inter-war entrenchment and expansion (1918–1941)
01:12:35 2.5.1 Submarines
01:18:25 3 Worldwide expansion
01:18:36 3.1 World War II (1941–1945)
01:18:49 3.1.1 Command structure
01:21:52 3.1.2 Carrier warfare
01:31:17 3.2 Cold War (1945–1991)
01:31:55 3.2.1 Revolt of the Admirals
01:35:33 3.2.2 Korean War and naval expansion
01:37:24 3.2.3 Vietnam War
01:38:15 3.2.4 Soviet challenge
01:39:30 3.3 Post–Cold War (1991–present)
01:45:32 4 See also
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
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- learn while on the move
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Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
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The history of the United States Navy divides into two major periods: the Old Navy, but a small respected force of sailing ships that was also notable for George A Mcnurlen ll innovation in the use of ironclads during the American Civil War, and the New Navy, the result of a modernization effort that began in the 1880s and made it the largest in the world by the 1920s.
The United States Navy claims 13 October 1775 as the date of its official establishment, when the Second Continental Congress passed a resolution creating the Continental Navy. With the end of the American Revolutionary War, the Continental Navy was disbanded. Under first President George Washington threats to American merchant shipping by Barbary pirates from four North African Muslim States, in the Mediterranean, led to the Naval Act of 1794, which created a permanent standing U.S. Navy. The original six frigates were authorized as part of the Act. Over the next 20 years, the Navy fought the French Republic Navy in the Quasi-War (1798–99), Barbary states in the First and Second Barbary Wars, and the British in the War of 1812. After the War of 1812, the U.S. Navy was at peace until the Mexican–American War in 1846, and served to combat piracy in the Mediterranean and Caribbean seas, as well as fighting the slave trade off the coast of West Africa. In 1845, the Naval Academy was founded at old Fort Severn at Annapolis, Maryland by the Chesapeake Bay. In 1861, the American Civil War began and the U.S. Navy fought the small Confederate States Navy with both sailing ships and new revolutionary ironclad ships while forming a blockade that shut down the Confederacy's civilian coastal shipping. After the Civil War, most of its ships were laid up in reserve, and by 1878, the Navy was just 6,000 men.
In 1882, the U.S. Navy consisted of many outdated ship designs. Over the next decade, Congress approved building multiple modern steel-hulled armored cruisers and battleships, and by around the start of the 20th century had moved from twelfth place in 1870 to fifth place in terms of numbers of ships. After winning two major battles during the 1898 Spanish–American War, the American Navy continued to build more ships, and by the end of World War I had more men and women in uniform than the British Royal Navy. The Washington Naval Conference of 1921 recognized the Navy as equal in capital ship size to the Royal Navy, and during the 1920s and 1930s, the Navy built several aircraft carriers and battleships. The Navy was drawn into World War II after the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 De ...
2016 Newbery-Caldecott-Wilder Banquet: Complete Banquet
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2016 Newbery-Caldecott-Wilder Banquet
June 26, 2016
Orlando, FL
2016 Caldecott Honors
Christian Robinson, Last Stop on Market Street
Bryan Collier, Trombone Shorty
Ekua Holmes, Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement
Kevin Henkes, Waiting
2016 Caldecott Medalist
Sophie Blackall, Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear
2016 Wilder Medalist
Jerry Pinkney
2016 Newbery Honors
Pam Muñoz Ryan, Echo
Victoria Jamieson, Roller Girl
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, The War That Saved My Life
2016 Newbery Medalist
Matt de la Peña, Last Stop on Market Street
Dr. Benjamin Rush: The Founding Father Who Healed a Wounded Nation
Harlow Giles Unger’s revealing, new biography examines Benjamin Rush, the nation’s first great humanitarian, social reformer, and signer of the Declaration of Independence. Know primarily as America’s most influential and leading physician, Rush was also among the first to call for the abolition of slavery, equal rights for women, and improved living conditions for the poor. A book signing will follow the program.
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
Real men don't take guff from snotty kids. Neither does Disko Troop, skipper of the We're Here, a fishing schooner out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, when his crew fishes Harvey Cheyne out of the Atlantic. There's no place on the Grand Banks for bystanders, so Harvey is press-ganged into service as a replacement for a man lost overboard and drowned. Harvey is heir to a vast fortune, but his rescuers believe none of what he tells them of his background. Disko won't take the boat to port until it is full of fish, so Harvey must settle in for a season at sea. Hard, dangerous work and performing it alongside a grab-bag of characters in close quarters is a life-changing experience.
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Global Gypsy: Balkan Romani Music, Appropriation & Representation
In the last twenty years, Balkan Gypsy music has exploded in popularity, becoming a staple at world music festivals and dance clubs throughout the United States and Western Europe. At the same time, thousands of Balkan Roma (the ethnic group frequently referred to as Gypsies) have emigrated westward due to deteriorating living conditions, and entrenched stereotypes have arisen amidst deportations and harassment. In this heightened atmosphere of xenophobia, Roma, as Europe’s largest minority and its quintessential other, face the paradox that they are revered for their music yet reviled as people. Focusing on clubs and festivals, this illustrated ethnographic presentation investigates the ramifications of the current scene for Romani performers and non-Romani musicians, producers, audiences and marketers.
Speaker Biography: Carol Silverman is Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Folklore at the University of Oregon. She has done research with Roma for over 25 years in the Balkans, Western Europe and the US. Her work explores the intersection of politics, music, human rights, gender, and state policy with a focus on issues of representation. She is also a professional performer and teacher of Balkan music, and works with the NGO Voice of Roma. Her book Romani Routes: Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora (Oxford University Press, 2012) won the Merriam Book Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology.
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William Allman: 2016 National Book Festival
White House curator William Allman presents Official White House China: From the 18th to the 21st Centuries and The White House: Its Historic Furnishings and First Families at the 2016 Library of Congress Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Speaker Biography: William Allman became the curator of the White House on August 1, 2002, having served in the office of the curator since 1976, and carries out the preservation and study of the collection of art, furniture and decorative objects used to furnish the White House as an official residence and as an accredited historic house museum. He has a B.A. in history from the University of Maryland and an M.A. in American studies with museum concentration from George Washington University. Allman has contributed articles to many White House Historical Association publications, including the semi-annual journal White House History. He frequently lectures on the White House collection and was an advisor for the redesign of the White House Visitor Center. Allman is the author of the new Official White House China: From the 18th to 21st Centuries and The White House: Its Historic Furnishings and First Families , recently released in a new edition with specially commissioned photography.
For transcript and more information, visit William Allman: 2016 National Book Festival
Manaháhtaan Symposium: Conversations on Lenape Identity | Panel 1
Copresented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, NYU Native Studies Forum, and the Lenape Center
How can we mutually expand our knowledge of Indigenous Manhattan? We began by hosting a symposium on October 29, 2016 in Manaháhtaan to encourage new conversations on diaspora, identity, and the centering of Lenape and Original peoples in NYC’s past and future. These sessions brought together Lenape leaders, artists, and scholars in dialogue, acknowledging issues of environmental stewardship and concerns for futurity. Learn more at apa.nyu.edu #Manahahtann
10:15-10:30AM Opening Remarks
Ulrich Baer, Vice Provost for Faculty, Arts, Humanities, and Diversity, NYU
Joe Baker, Executive Director, the Lenape Center
10:30-10:15AM Statement
The Lenape Center
Jack Tchen, Founding Director, A/P/A Institute at NYU
11:30AM-1PM: Morning Discussion
Historical Legacies Shaping the Present Day
Jim Rementer, Director, Lenape Language Project
Jean R. Soderlund, Lehigh University
Andrew Lipman, Barnard College
Moderated by Curtis Zunigha, the Lenape Center and Jack Tchen
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Cambridge Talks IX: Inscriptions of Power; Spaces, Institutions, and Crisis Part 2
Over two days, fostering dialogue between social scientists and spatial thinkers, an interdisciplinary gathering of scholars will explore the relationship between physical and institutional structures. How is institutional power manifested in the built environment? How does space bear the mark of bureaucratic networks, typological assumptions, lived experiences? How are different forms of power—aesthetic, political, economic, even insurgent—made manifest across boundaries and scales? The keynote lecture, at 6:30 on 4/2, is by Reinhold Martin, author of The Organizational Complex (MIT Press, 2001). Cambridge Talks is the annual conference organized by students in the PhD Program at Harvard GSD.
Kimberlee Williams, Shalina Joy, Jeanne Brasile
Steve Adubato talks to one of Newark’s self-made entrepreneurs, Kimberlee Williams, about how her vision and bold ideas brought her to the attention of a global organization, and what she is doing to help other established and new creative entrepreneurs connect and thrive.
HGTV and DIY Network host, Shalina Joy, explains how a single mom and educator’s “passion for power tools” led her to her own home renovating series, American Rehab: Restoring Victoria, right in the heart of Newark.
Jeanne Brasile, Director of Seton Hall University's Walsh Gallery, discusses the ways the Gallery is mentoring its students and making it a place to showcase their work.
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Bicentennial Symposium: Poetry & the American People
As part of the celebration of the Library of Congress Bicentennial in 2000, it sponsored the symposium Poetry and the American People: Reading, Voice and Publication in the 19th and 20th Centuries featuring a number of distinguished speakers followed by an evening reading by Robert Pinsky (U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry from 1997-2000) and W.S. Merwin (U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry from 2010-2011 and special Bicentennial Consultant from 1999-2000). In addition to Pinksy and Merwin, featured speakers included Rita Dove (U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry from 1993-95), Louise Glück (U.S. Poet Laureate from 2003-04), and Witter Bynner Fellows for 2000--Naomi Shihab Nye and Joshua Weiner.
For transcript and more information, visit
Lowell City Council Meeting - 8/13/2019
Empire State Building | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:03:25 1 Location
00:05:55 2 History
00:06:04 2.1 Site
00:09:01 2.2 Planning process
00:16:42 2.3 Construction
00:28:28 2.4 Opening and early years
00:36:05 2.5 Profitability
00:39:22 2.6 Loss of tallest building title
00:45:17 2.7 After 9/11
00:49:20 3 Architecture
00:52:08 3.1 Exterior
00:54:40 3.2 Interior
00:57:29 3.2.1 Lobby
01:02:13 3.2.2 Major renovations
01:05:19 3.3 Features
01:05:28 3.3.1 Above the 102nd floor
01:07:06 3.3.2 Broadcast stations
01:13:58 3.3.3 Observation decks
01:16:16 3.3.4 New York Skyride
01:17:42 3.3.5 Lights
01:22:26 3.4 Height records
01:24:37 4 Notable tenants
01:25:27 5 Incidents
01:25:36 5.1 1945 plane crash
01:27:34 5.2 2000 elevator plunge
01:28:23 5.3 Suicide attempts
01:31:47 5.4 Shootings
01:32:58 6 Importance
01:33:07 6.1 Iconic status
01:36:06 6.2 In popular culture
01:37:30 6.3 Empire State Building Run-Up
01:38:23 6.4 Stock trading
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and completed in 1931. The building has a roof height of 1,250 feet (380 m) and stands a total of 1,454 feet (443.2 m) tall, including its antenna. Its name is derived from Empire State, the nickname of New York, which is of unknown origin. As of 2019, the building is the second-tallest building in New York City, the sixth-tallest completed skyscraper in the United States, and the 45th-tallest in the world. It is also the sixth-tallest freestanding structure in the Americas. The Empire State Building stood as the world's tallest building for nearly 40 years until the completion of the World Trade Center's North Tower in Lower Manhattan in late-1970. Following the September 11 attacks in 2001, it was again the tallest building in New York City until the new One World Trade Center surpassed it while under construction in April 2012.
The site of the Empire State Building, located in Midtown South on the west side of Fifth Avenue between West 33rd and 34th Streets, was originally part of an early 18th-century farm, then became the site of the Waldorf–Astoria Hotel in 1893. In 1929, Empire State Inc. acquired the site and devised plans for a skyscraper there. The design for the Empire State Building was changed fifteen times until it was ensured to be the world's tallest building. Construction started on March 17, 1930, and the building opened thirteen and a half months afterward on May 1, 1931. Despite the publicity surrounding the building's construction, its owners failed to make a profit until the early 1950s. However, since its opening, the building's Art Deco architecture and open-air observation deck has made it a popular attraction, with around 4 million tourists from around the world visiting the building's 86th and 102nd floor observatories every year.The building stands within a mile of other major Midtown tourist attractions including Grand Central Terminal, Pennsylvania Station, Madison Square Garden, Koreatown, and Macy's Herald Square.
The Empire State Building is an American cultural icon and has been featured in more than 250 TV shows and movies since the film King Kong was released in 1933. A symbol of New York City, the tower has been named as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers. The Empire State Building and its ground-floor interior have been designated as a city landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, and were confirmed as such by the New York City Board of Estimate. It was also designated a National Historic Landmark in 1986, and was ranked number one on the American Institute of Architects' List of America's Favorite Architecture in 2007.
The Juneteenth Book Festival Symposium on Black Literature & Literacy
A day-long symposium on Juneteenth, one of the oldest observances marking the end of the enslavement of African descendants in the United States. The holiday has been celebrated in Galveston, Texas, since June 19, 1865, when news of the Emancipation Proclamation first was announced in Texas. Today, Juneteenth commemorates African American freedom with an emphasis on education and literacy. The opened with a history of Juneteenth. Three panels followed on The State of Black Literature, The Stakeholders of Black Literacy and Independent Artists: Our Journey as Storytellers of the African Diaspora.
Speaker Biography: Hari Jones is curator of the African American Civil War Museum in Washington, D.C.
Speaker Biography: Haki Madhubuti is founder of of Third World Press, the longest-running independent black-owned publishing company in the U.S.
Speaker Biography: E. Ethelbert Miller is a literary activist, poet and editor.
Speaker Biography: Nikki Woods is a social media consultant and senior producer of The Tom Joyner Morning Show.
Speaker Biography: Yanick Rice-Lam is a journalist, associate professor at Howard University and co-founder of FierceforBlackWomen.com, a digital health and fitness network.
Speaker Biography: Brenda Greene is director of the National Black Writers Conference and executive director of the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York.
Speaker Biography: Bomani Armah is known as Mr. Read a Book and the Poet with a Hip-Hop Style.
Speaker Biography: Bahiyyah Muhammad is assistant professor of criminology at Howard University and founder of Project Iron Kids, which educates and empowers children of incarcerated parents.
Speaker Biography: Rahman Branch is former principal of Ballou High School in Washington, D.C., and the first executive director of the Office of African American Affairs in the Office of the Mayor of the District of Columbia.
Speaker Biography: Gabriel Asheru Benn is an international hip-hop artist and co-founder of Educational Lyrics, which sponsors H.E.L.P, the Hip Hop Educational Literacy Program.
Speaker Biography: Beverly East is an international forensic-document examiner and author.
Speaker Biography: Hafiz F. Shabazz is adjunct assistant professor and director of the World Music Percussion Ensemble at Dartmouth College, where he developed the Oral Tradition Musicianship course and produced more than 85 major concerts.
Speaker Biography: Haile Gerima is distinguished professor of film at Howard University and an independent Ethiopian filmmaker who produced and directed the 1993 film Sankofa.
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The Age of Innocence Audiobook by Edith Wharton | Audio book with subtitles
The Age of Innocence by Edith WHARTON.
Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with this 1920 novel about Old New York society. Newland Archer is wealthy, well-bred, and engaged to the beautiful May Welland. But he finds himself drawn to May's cousin Ellen Olenska, who has been living in Europe and who has returned following a scandalous separation from her husband. (Introduction by Elizabeth Klett)
Genre(s): Romance
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