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30+ Black Women & Gender Diverse Community Leaders Over 65

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I’ve been working on this list of 30+ Black women and gender diverse community leaders who are over 65. With the passing of local African Nova Scotian activist Eddie Carvery and Rev. Jesse Jackson it seems important to share rather than waiting.  Don’t wait to give people their flowers. Everyone on this list is still alive and here to learn from, uplift, and … [Read more...] about 30+ Black Women & Gender Diverse Community Leaders Over 65

Autobiography: Redacted – Studies After Howardena Pindell

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“All the whiteness was getting on my nerves.” — Howardena Pindell on why she made “Free, White and 21.” (1980), New York Times, 2025  Howardena Pindell is almost 83 years old and still making art in her New York studio. The first Black curator at the Museum of Modern Art, she also co-founded A.I.R. Gallery in New York, the first all-female artists’ cooperative gallery … [Read more...] about Autobiography: Redacted – Studies After Howardena Pindell

Courage/Ometz Lev

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Want to find Courage? Let compassion be your compass. Don’t go looking for the one yelling the loudest at the front of the crowd, Courage isn’t always some powerhouse full of fire and fury.  Courage is often a quiet thing who visits us in daily decisions and unsung moments. Courage is the girl sold on the street by one of her mother’s boyfriends before she was 14, who … [Read more...] about Courage/Ometz Lev

Allegory of the Long Spoons

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Imagine that hell is a dinner party. There is a long table in a grand hall filled with  delicious food but the guests are miserable. No one is able to eat because they are forced to use long spoons that cannot reach their mouths. They have so much but they are still starving and suffering.  Imagine that heaven it’s a dinner party. There is a long table winding … [Read more...] about Allegory of the Long Spoons