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No right was more important for Black people in the 1960s than the right to vote. Ending segregation and discrimination was vitally important, but any gains made would be lost if the right to vote were not secured. For the 80 years between Reconstruction and the Civil Rights movement, Blacks in the South (and many times in the North) were disallowed to vote through various means that were blatantly racist. Southern states imposed a “poll tax” which was set at a level most Black families could not afford.

Hi all, I am so excited to share one of my favorite projects, “Coffee with KP.” WHAT’S COFFEE WITH KP? Between March 2020 and December 2021 (aka the COVID-19 Lockdowns), I hosted 174 group informational meetings with entertainment industry professionals, where they shared their career stories from their home offices and took questions from college student… ncG1vNJzZmijop7Ata3PmqmkoZ6ovK960q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnnZqytXnToZxmm5WkerCyjKuYp5%2BVYrqmsMiaZKmdpJq%2F

Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.Meet Firestarter Carry Nation,* the most famous activist to emerge from the American temperance movement due to her habit of attacking Kansas saloons with everything from cleavers to bricks to billiard balls. And thanks to the male biographers who have since attributed Nation’s tactics to menopause and mental illness, she’s also one of the most ridiculed activists in American history. Nation’s activism started in antebellum Kentucky in the 1800s, where she grew up with a mentally ill mother.

The Oscar nominations will be announced next week, and we all have our fingers grossed for Lily Gladstone to make history and become the first indigenous American person to receive a Best Actress nod. Gladstone’s work in Killers of the Flower Moon is perhaps my most beloved performance of 2023, and if there was any justice in Hollywood, many of the other Native actors in the movie would be receiving awards attention.

I’m still recovering from my car crash eleven days ago, so you’ll perhaps forgive me for obsessing over the data I’ve been digging up on how much more dangerous such crashes are to women than to men; how negligent the car industry has been in addressing this known discrepancy; how absurd it is that they only test car safety on male crash test dummies, n… ncG1vNJzZmiclZe8s63HnKapmZuau2%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2illZrBbrnAq6CaZaeawLW7zWairqCeYsGpsYygnKdlqg%3D%3D

Massimo Bottura needs little introduction. You might have seen him on Stanley Tucci’s show Searching for Italy or Chef’s Table on Netflix. An iconoclast who takes the ingredients and flavors he grew up eating in Modena and reinterprets them in inspiring and thought-provoking ways, he’s the visionary behind Osteria Francescana, which was ranked the best restaurant in the world on the 50 Best Restaurants list in 2016 and 2018 and is still the only restaurant in Emilia Romagna with three Michelin stars.

It is one of the most well-documented cases of reincarnation in modern studies and definitely one of the most convincing, studied by hundreds of researchers, critics, scholars, saints, and eminent public figures from all parts of India and abroad. I spent the entire last week reading stuff around this topic. It was a lot of fun knowing something one doesn’t get to interact with a lot. This Sunday, I published the story of Barbro Karlén, who claimed to be the reincarnation of Anne Frank.

You can find part one of this series here. Current Residence: Ann Arbor, Michigan Instagram: @e_tomlinson39 English Tomlinson set her sights on the marathon after graduating from Bridgewater College in Virginia, in the spring of 2020, at the height of the pandemic. “It was a really hard and unexpected way for college to end,” she said. “I was angry for quite a while and had nothing else to do so I decided I was just going to run farther than I ever had before, which, looking back, laid a good base for the marathon.

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper is exactly why this newsletter exists. Her first book of poetry Forest Leaves was published in Maryland in the late 1840s. It launched the career of a young (20 years old!) Black woman who would become a seminal figure in women’s protest history. It is more of a pamphlet than a book, soft-covered and bound with string. Let’s start by reading this poem published in this book titled “Bible Defense of Slavery.