#Scott Pinkney

[uwmspeccoll]

A Jerry Pickney Saturday

Jerry Pinkney (1939-2021) was a multi-award-winning American illustrator and children’s book author. His numerous awards include a Caldecott Medal (2010); five Caldecott Honor Book awards; five Coretta Scott King Book Awards (the most for any illustrator); five Coretta Scott King Honor Awards; the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award (2016); the 2016 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award; four Gold medals, four Silver medals, and the 2016 Original Art Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Illustrators; and he was nominated twice for the Hans Christian Andersen Award, considered the Nobel Prize for children's literature, among many other awards and recognitions.

The images shown here are Pickney’s pencil, color pencil, and watercolor illustrations for children’s book author Alan Schroeder’s 1996 fictional biography, Minty, A Story of Young Harriet Tubman, published in New York by Dial Books for Young Readers. This book won Pickney the 1997 Coretta Scott King Book Award for Illustrator, and the book was a Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice for 1996.

Schroeder writes that “While Minty is a fictional account of Harriet Tubman’s childhood, and some scenes have been invented for narrative purposes, the basic facts are true.” Of illustrating this book, Pinkney writes:

The challenge that Minty initially posed for me came from not having a clear picture of Harriet Tubman’s early childhood. However, I was able to imagine the spirited eight-year-old Minty, using Alan Schroeder’s strong text and Harriet Tubman’s biography, The Moses of Her People, as springboards. The National Park Service was also helpful . . . as was the Banneker-Douglas Museum in Maryland, where extensive research uncovered the style of plantations around Maryland during Minty’s childhood and authentic details regarding backgrounds, dress, food, and living conditions of the enslaved as well as the slave owners. My interest was to give some sense of Minty’s noble spirit and open a window to understanding the day-to-day, sunup to sundown life of the slave, by individualizing the hardships in overwhelming circumstances.

In 1978 I was privileged to create the first Harriet Tubman commemorative stamp for the U.S. Postal Service. This book, then, brings me full circle with Harriet’s life and courage.

View another post with illustrations by Jerry Pinkney.

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[thatliminal-wanderer]

Infected (Regretevator) ID Pack

Names:

Abby, Alex, Allie, Alyx, Andrew, Artemis, Aslan, Avril, Begonia, Betty, Blitz, Blossom, Bloxxer, Bloxxy, Brew, Byte, Calico, Caltrop, Camellia, Candy, Carssus, Cat, Caterina, Chad, Clary, Cougar, Diana, Dianthe, Dinah, Eglantine, Eliana, Elke, Eric, Fuchsia, Fuschia, Heather, Huong, Jada, Jadah, Jalajaa, Jynx, Kamelia, Kasper, Keasha, Lance, Leticia, Lien, Luna, Lynnae, Lynx, Mahlon, Martie, Midnight, Mimi, Mimose, Minerva, Mink, Myles, Nala, Paula, Peggy, Petunia, Pink, Pinkie, Pinkney, Pinkus, Pixel, Rajah, Ritchell, Rodney, Rora, Rory, Roseanne, Ryan, Rydell, Saber, Sabrina, Sakura, Sandhya, Savannah, Scott, Sharyn, Silver, Simba, Stephanie, Syd, Teuila, Tom, Vanessa, Xiloxoch, Zed, Zelie

Pronouns:

be/berry/berries, blox/bloxes, bubble/gum/gums, cat/cats, co/cor/coral/corals, cold/colds, cough/coughs, dey/dem, digital/digitals, fe/fever/fevers, friendly/friendlys, fu/fuch/fuchs, fuch/fuchsia, fun/funs, germ/germs, gu/gum/gums, h3/h1m, ill/ills, kit/kitz, lu/blush/blushes, ma/gent/gents, meow/mews, mew/mews, paw/paws, pe/peach/peaches, pi/pink/pinks, pink/pinks, pixel/pixels, play/plays, purr/purrs, ro/rose/roses, ro/rouge/rouges, rose/roses, sal/mon/mons, sic/sick/sicks, ska/skate, skate/skates, ta/taf/taffy/taffies ,vi/vir/virs, vir/virus, xe/xem, 🌀/🌀s, 🌐/🌐s, 🍬/🍬s, 🎮/🎮s, 🐈‍⬛/🐈‍⬛s, 👾/👾s, 💻/💻s, 💽/💽s, 📳/📳s, 😷/😷s, 🛹/🛹s, 🦠/🦠s, 🧪/🧪s, 🩷/🩷s

Titles:

Scene Robloxian, Skater/Gamer Adorned in Pink, The Gamer/Skater Who Doesn’t Feel Sick, The One Infected by Scenecore, The One Who Misses [prn] Cat, The One With an Unknown Illness, The Scene Skater, The Sick Robloxian, The Sickly Skater/Gamer, [prn] That Loves To Game/Skate, [prn] Who Speaks in Leet Speak, [prn] Who is Sick

Genders:

Adoptmecatgender, Arcadegender, Blackcatplushic, Catgender, Gendergross, Grosscat, Infectedgender, Kandistimmic, Neonarcadix, PIINboy, Pinkaesic, Pinkgender, Pinkinjection, Pinkpresentic, Pinkpufflecharic, Robloxgender, Sceneartcoric, Scenecoricatgen, Scenecoric, Scenecringic, Sicillic, Sickboyic/Sickgirlic, Sickcute, Sickgender, Sillifelin, Skaterboybodiment, Viruslexic

Other MOGAI:

Blackcatpaldernic, Cat Omninoun, Neoncolperspesque, Pink Diffiden, Pink Omninoun, Pinkperspesque, Playfulintent, Regretevatorhearthic, Rocharicvior, Scemoperspesque, Scenevesil, Sickaldernic

[lickmystamp]

US postage stamp, 1987 “United Way” Scott #2275

Issued: April 28, 1987 - Washington, DC Quantity: 156,995,000 Designer: Jerry Pinkney Printed By: Bureau of Engraving and Printing (Lithographed & engraved)

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the United Way. The stamp raised some controversy because it violated the USPS’s own rule against issuing stamps for charitable organizations.

[singeratlarge]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Scott McKenzie, the singer-songwriter best known for his association with John Phillips and the 1967 Summer of Love anthem “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair),” the sonic tract that called 1000s of young people to California.

 

Phillips (who played on the track with The Wrecking Crew) wrote the song to appease authorities concerned that hippies would overrun the Bay Area for the Monterey Pop Festival. Peace and love prevailed. The song has been used in several films and was a theme for the Prague Spring Czech uprising in 1968. That same year, McKenzie’s next Top 40 hit “Like an Old Time Movie” (also written and played by Phillips) segued with McKenzie writing “What About Me” for Anne Murray (her first hit single).

 

Like many artists circa 1960, McKenzie morphed out of doo-wop and became a folkie, joining the New York folk scene that beget The Mamas & The Papas. Phillips initially invited McKenzie to join that group but he declined, saying he didn’t want “the pressure.” Years later McKenzie joined a road version of The Mamas & The Papas in 1986. Concurrently, the Phillips-McKenzie team joined Mike Love and Terry Melcher to create the huge Beach Boys hit “Kokomo.”

 

The evergreen “San Francisco” remains McKenzie’s best-known work (he passed from Guillain-Barre syndrome in 2010). Periodically I dabbled with the song, dirty demo-ing a grunge-y Iggy Pop-like update: https://johnnyjblairsingeratlarge.bandcamp.com/track/san-francisco-be-sure-to-wear-flowers-in-your-hair-demo-remastered-2020

 

HB and RIP Scott.

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the 1964 Vee-Jay LP INTRODUCING THE BEATLES, Pat Benatar, Ray Bolger, Frances X. Bushman, Eddy Clearwater, Jemaine Clement, Shawn Colvin, the 1972 UK LP issue of CONCERT FOR BANGLADESH, Jim Croce, drum heroes Aynsley Dunbar and Max Roach, Donald Fagen, the musical FINIAN’S RAINBOW (1947), George Foreman, the 1928 Gershwin-Romberg-Wodehouse musical ROSALIE, Byron “Whild Child” Gipson, Teresa Graves, Ronnie Hawkins, Paul Henreid, sculptress Barbara Hepworth, Mary Ingalls, Frank James, Brian Joo, King Crimson’s 1971 US album release of LIZARD, Bob Lang (The Mindbenders), Don Letts (Big Audio Dynamite), Jerry Lee Lewis’s 1958 UK single “Great Balls of Fire,” Linda Lovelace, Mendelssohn’s 1833 cantata  "Die erste Walpurgisnacht," the 1927 film METROPOLIS, Sal Mineo, St. Philomena, Fayette Pinkney (Three Degrees), Johnnie Ray, Lou Reed’s 1989 NEW YORK album, Lyle Ritz (Wrecking Crew), Brad Roberts (Crash Test Dummies), Hrithik Roshan, Samira Said, William Sanderson, Michael Schenker, “Silly Symphony” comics (1932), Frank Sinatra Jr., Sonic the Hedgehog, Nadja Salerni-Sonnenberg, Rod Stewart, Scott Thurston, composer-violinist Gasparo Visconti, Drew Robert Weiser, mega-producer Jerry Wexler, and Scott McKenzie, the singer-songwriter best known for his association with John Phillips and the 1967 Summer of Love anthem “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair),” the sonic tract that beckoned 1000s of young people to California.

 

Phillips (who played on the track with The Wrecking Crew) wrote the song to appease authorities concerned that hippies would overrun the Bay Area for the Monterey Pop Festival. Peace and love prevailed. The song has been used in several films and was a theme for the Prague Spring Czech uprising in 1968. That same year, McKenzie’s next Top 40 hit “Like an Old Time Movie” (also written and played by Phillips) segued with McKenzie writing “What About Me” for Anne Murray (her first hit single).

 

Like many artists circa 1960, McKenzie morphed out of doo-wop and became a folkie, joining the New York folk scene that beget The Mamas & The Papas. Phillips initially invited McKenzie to join that group but he declined, saying he didn’t want “the pressure.” Years later McKenzie joined a road version of The Mamas & The Papas in 1986. Concurrently, the Phillips-McKenzie team joined Mike Love and Terry Melcher to create the huge Beach Boys hit “Kokomo.”

 

The evergreen “San Francisco” remains McKenzie’s best-known work (he passed from Guillain-Barre syndrome in 2010). Periodically I dabbled with the song, dirty demo-ing a grunge-y Iggy Pop-like update: https://johnnyjblairsingeratlarge.bandcamp.com/track/san-francisco-be-sure-to-wear-flowers-in-your-hair-demo-remastered-2020

 

HB and RIP Scott.

 

#ScottMcKenzie #SanFrancisco #Flowers #Hair #MontereyPopFestival #SummerofLove #JohnPhillips #MamasandthePapas #wreckingcrew #PragueSpring #folkmusic #BeachBoys #Kokomo #MikeLove #TerryMelcher #GuillainBarre #grungemusic #IggyPop #NobHill #demo #johnnyjblair #singeratlarge

[lboogie1906]

Jerry Pinkney (December 22, 1939 – October 20, 2021) was an illustrator and writer of children’s literature. He illustrated over 100 books since 1964, including picture books, nonfiction titles, and novels. His works addressed diverse themes and were usually done in watercolors.

He obtained the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for the book John Henry and he has received five Coretta Scott King Awards for illustration. He received the Caldecott Medal for his book The Lion & the Mouse. His book A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation (2019), illustrated by him and written by Barry Wittenstein, won the Orbis Pictus Award for 2020.

He received the Virginia Hamilton Literary Award from Kent State University, and in 2004 he was awarded the University of Southern Mississippi Medallion for outstanding contributions in the field of children’s literature. He received the Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.

He has partnered with the USPS, National Park Service, and National Geographic for his illustration work. His art has been featured in numerous exhibitions. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 8.15

Beer Birthdays

Adam Eulberg (1835)

Christian Benjamin Feigenspan (1844)

Charles D. Goepper (1860)

Christine Celis (1962)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Julia Child; chef, writer (1912)

Stieg Larsson; Swedish writer (1954)

Jennifer Lawrence; actor (1990)

Oscar Peterson; Canadian jazz pianist (1925)

Walter Scott; Scottish poet, writer (1771)

Famous Birthdays

Ben Affleck; actor (1972)

Tommy Aldridge; drummer (1950)

Ethel Barrymore; actor (1879)

Leonard Baskin; sculptor (1922)

Marion Bauer; composer (1882)

Robert Bolt; English playwright, screenwriter (1924)

Napoleon Bonaparte; French emperor, soldier (1769)

Estelle Brody; silent film actress (1900)

Jim Brothers; sculptor (1941)

Jan Brzechwa; Polish author and poet (1898)

Bobby Byrd; singer-songwriter (1934)

Bobby Caldwell; singer-songwriter (1951)

Cadence Carter; pornstar (1996)

Lillian Carter; Jimmy Carter's mother (1898)

Judy Cassab; Austrian-Australian painter (1920)

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; English composer (1875)

Tom Colicchio; chef (1962)

Charles Comiskey; baseball player and manager (1859)

Leslie Comrie; New Zealand astronomer (1893)

Mike Connors; actor (1925)

Gerty Cori; Czech-American biochemist and physiologist (1896)

Walter Crane; English artist (1845)

Jim Dale; English actor (1935)

Abby Dalton; actress (1932)

Louis de Broglie; French physicist (1892)

Régine Deforges; French author (1935)

Thomas de Quincey; English writer (1785)

Linda Ellerbee; television journalist (1944)

Edna Ferber; writer (1885)

Eliza Lee Cabot Follen; writer (1787)

Huntz Hall; actor (1919)

Signe Hasso; Swedish-American actress (1915)

Richard F. Heck; chemist (1931)

Bobby Helms; singer (1933)

Natasha Henstridge; actor (1974)

Wendy Hiller; actor (1912)

Wolfgang Hohlbein; German author (1953)

Stix Hooper; jazz drummer (1938)

Jacques Ibert; French composer (1890)

Blind Jack; English engineer (1717)

Tom Johnston; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1948)

Julius Katchen; pianist and composer (1926)

George Klein; Canadian inventor of the motorized wheelchair (1904)

Aleksey Krylov; Russian mathematician and engineer (1863)

T.E. Lawrence; Welsh writer (1888)

Rose Maddox; singer-songwriter and fiddle player (1925)

Rose Marie; comedian, actor (1923)

Debra Messing; actor (1968)

Sami Michael; Iraqi-Israeli author and playwright (1926)

Giorgos Mouzakis; Greek trumpet player (1922)

E. Nesbit; English author and poet (1858)

Pyotr Novikov; Russian mathematician (1901)

Paul Outerbridge; photographer (1896)

Inês Pedrosa; Portuguese writer (1962)

Bill Pinkney, American pop singer (1925)

Luigi Pulci; Italian poet (1432)

Paul Rand; graphic designer (1914)

Nicholas Roeg; film director (1928)

Mike Seeger; folk musician and folklorist (1933)

John Silber; philosopher (1926)

Leo Theremin; Russian inventor (1896)

Rob Thomas; author (1965)

Jack Tworkov; Polish-American painter (1900)

Gene Upshaw; Oakland Raiders G (1945)

Mikao Usui; Japanese spiritual leader, founded Reiki (1865)

Jimmy Webb; songwriter (1946)

Hugo Winterhalter; composer and bandleader (1909)

Peter York; rock drummer (1942)

[larryland]

REVIEW: "Typhoid Mary" at Barrington Stage

REVIEW: “Typhoid Mary” at Barrington Stage

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[thebookishaustin]

2020 Picture Book Update

Image from my Goodreads page

I can’t believe it’s the last week of October already! This month has been flying by and that saddens me, but I’m also looking forward to all the amazing picture books coming out in the upcoming weeks! It’s the height of publishing season!

I’ve been reading quite a few picture books, as always and I’ve FINALLY finished watching Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices that premiered on September 1st (more information and trailer) on Netflix. PLEASE check out this amazing show! Here are the books/episodes I finished the season off with: 

Episode 7: Pretty Brown Face by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brown Boy Joy by Thomishia Booker (Read by Jill Scott)

Episode 8: Firebird by Misty Copeland (Read by Misty Copeland)

Episode 12: We March by Shane W. Evans (Read by Marley Dias)

And, of course, I have read other books too! Here’s some favorites from the past few weeks: 

My Creepy Valentine by Arthur Howard: This book is such a wonderful crossover for Halloween and Valentine’s Day! This little witch doesn’t want to celebrate...until she finds just the right person that tugs at her creepy heartstrings! 

Good Morning Zoom by Lindsay Rechler: A parody fit for the current times of COVID-19! Take your kids on a journey of how they might be navigating the world these days with Zoom school, stay-at-home orders, and being comfortable at home! 

What have you been reading lately? I would love to hear about your reading on any of my platforms (Tumblr | Instagram | Goodreads). Until next time my reading friends - be safe and healthy out there! <3

[ndtcjamaica]

Part 7: In Tribute To Reggae Month

Marjorie Whylie's Tribute to ‘Dennis Brown’ — The Crown Prince left to Jamaica and the world, a catalogue of recordings of original songs, covers and compositions by seminal Jamaican songwriters such as Dwight Pinkney and Boris Gardiner that touches both heart and soul. Known best for expressing emotion in minor modes, the suite — Tribute To Dennis Brown, 2006 — shows that he was equally at ease with the major tonality of “Silhouette”, “Money In My Pocket” and “So Nice To Be With You”, as he was in the modal love anthem — “How Can I Live”.

Performers: Paula Asontuwa, Carole Reid, Faith Livingstone, Dulcie Bogues, Helen Christian, Jhana Williams, Wesley Scott, Howard Cooper, Larry Wright, Heston Boothe, Leighton Jones (Singers)

Marjorie Whylie, Albertina Jefferson, Kamau Khalfani, Wigmoore Francis, Tanagari Manning, Tony Holness Henry Miller, Paul Green, Ewan Simpson, Jesse Golding (Musicians) 

[cheshirelibrary]

Children's books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance 

[via embracerace.org]

Research from Harvard University suggests that children as young as three years old, when exposed to racism and prejudice, tend to embrace and accept it, even though they might not understand the feelings. By age 5, white children are strongly biased towards whiteness. To counter this bias, experts recommend acknowledging and naming race and racism with children as early and as often as possible. Children’s books are one of the most effective and practical tools for initiating these critical conversations; and they can also be used to model what it means to resist and dismantle oppression.​

Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz

Unstoppable: How Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team Defeated Army by Art Coulson

Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh

The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson

Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford

My Hair is a Garden by Cozbi A. Cabrera

The Legendary Miss Lena Horne by Carole Boston Weatherford

Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford

Ruth and the Green Book by Calvin Alexander Ramsey

Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis by Jabari Asim

When We Were Alone by David A. Robertson

Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America by Carole Boston Weatherford

Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison

Coretta Scott by Ntozake Shange

The Whispering Town by Jennifer Elvgren

Rosa by Nikki Giovanni

Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History by Walter Dean Myers

Sojourner Truth’s Step-Stomp Stride by Andrea Davis Pinkney

Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down by Andrea Davis Pinkney

That’s Not Fair! Emma Tenayuca’s Struggle for Justice by Carmen Tafolla and Sharyll Tenayuca

...

Click through to see more titles.

[singeratlarge]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the 1964 Vee-Jay LP INTRODUCING THE BEATLES, Pat Benatar, Ray Bolger, Frances X. Bushman, Eddy Clearwater, Jemaine Clement, Shawn Colvin, the 1972 UK LP issue of CONCERT FOR BANGLADESH, Jim Croce, drum heroes Aynsley Dunbar and Max Roach, Donald Fagen, the 1947 Broadway launch of FINIAN’S RAINBOW, George Foreman, the 1928 Gershwin-Romberg-Wodehouse musical ROSALIE, Byron “Whild Child” Gipson, Teresa Graves, Bob Lang (The Mindbenders), Don Letts (Big Audio Dynamite), Ronnie Hawkins, Paul Henreid, sculptress Barbara Hepworth, Frank James, Brian Joo, Mary Ingalls, Jerry Lee Lewis’s 1958 UK single “Great Balls of Fire,” Linda Lovelace, Mendelssohn’s 1833 cantata  "Die erste Walpurgisnacht," Sal Mineo, St. Philomena, Fayette Pinkney (Three Degrees), Johnnie Ray, Lyle Ritz (Wrecking Crew), Brad Roberts (Crash Test Dummies), Hrithik Roshan, Samira Said, William Sanderson, Michael Schenker, “Silly Symphony” comics, Frank Sinatra Jr., Sonic the Hedgehog, Nadja Salerni-Sonnenberg, Rod Stewart, Scott Thurston, composer-violinist Gasparo Visconti, mega-producer Jerry Wexler, and Scott McKenzie, the singer-songwriter best known for his association with John Phillips and the 1967 Summer of Love anthem “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair),” the sonic tract that called 1000s of young people to California.

Phillips (who played on the track with The Wrecking Crew) wrote the song to appease authorities concerned that hippies would overrun the Bay Area for the Monterey Pop Festival. Peace and love prevailed. The song has been used in several films and was a theme for the Prague Spring Czech uprising in 1968. That same year, McKenzie’s next Top 40 hit “Like an Old Time Movie” (also written and played by Phillips) segued with McKenzie writing “What About Me” for Anne Murray (her first hit single).

Like many artists circa 1960, McKenzie morphed out of doo-wop and became a folkie, joining the New York folk scene that beget The Mamas & The Papas. Phillips initially invited McKenzie to join that group but he declined, saying he didn’t want “the pressure.” His solo career phased in and out, then he joined a road version of The Mamas & The Papas in 1986. Concurrently, the Phillips-McKenzie team joined Mike Love and Terry Melcher to create the huge Beach Boys hit “Kokomo.”

The evergreen “San Francisco” remains McKenzie’s best-known work (he passed from Guillain-Barre syndrome in 2010). Periodically I dabbled with the song, dirty demo-ing a grunge-y Iggy Pop-like update in 1990 (oddly prescient to Iggy moving to my old Nob Hill neighborhood years later): https://johnnyjblairsingeratlarge.bandcamp.com/track/san-francisco-be-sure-to-wear-flowers-in-your-hair-demo-remastered-2020

HB and RIP Scott.

#ScottMcKenzie #SanFrancisco #Flowers #Hair #MontereyPopFestival #SummerofLove #JohnPhillips #MamasandthePapas #wreckingcrew #PragueSpring #folkmusic #BeachBoys #Kokomo #MikeLove #TerryMelcher #GuillainBarre #grungemusic #IggyPop #NobHill #demo #johnnyjblair #singeratlarge

[livinglifefully]

Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices

I’m really excited for this! I try really hard to highlight the diversity and wonder of the world to my young boys, buying and borrowing many amazing books that showcase all manner of races, genders and sexual orientations but OH MY GOD DO WE NEED THIS! There’s only so many times and ways I can read these books and even when I’m at my peak of engagement, I’m always a white, able-bodied, middle-class, heterosexual, cisgender male.

But this is excellent! Stories written, featuring and presented by POC! And I can just put it on every day! And I can drink tea! I do so love it when other people get off their arse and make being a responsible parent easier for me.

Will Thorne’s Variety Article (link below) details the books being read and by whom.

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/netflix-celebrating-black-voices-live-action-preschool-series-tiffany-haddish-lupita-nyongo-common-1234738586/

Tiffany Haddish reads “I Love My Hair” by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley. Illustration by E.B. Lewis

Grace Byers reads “I Am Enough,” by Grace Byers. Illustration by Keturah A. Bobo

Caleb McLaughlin reads “Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut,” by Derrick Barnes. Illustration by Gordon C. James

Lupita Nyong’o reads “Sulwe,” by Lupita Nyong’o. Illustration by Vashti Harrison

Marsai Martin reads “ABC’s For Girls Like Me,” by Melanie Goolsby. Illustration by Princess Kay

Karamo Brown reads “I Am Perfectly Designed,” by Karamo Brown. Illustration by Anoosha Syed

Jill Scott reads “Pretty Brown Face” and “Brown Boy Joy,” by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Thomishia Booker respecrtively. Illustration by Brian Pinkney and Thomishia Booker

Misty Copeland reads “Firebird,” by Misty Copeland. Illustration by Christopher Myers

Common reads “Let’s Talk About Race,” by Julius Lester. Illustration by Karen Barbour

Jacqueline Woodson reads “The Day You Begin,” by Jacqueline Woodson. Illustration by Rafael Lopez

Kendrick Sampson reads “Anti-Racist Baby,” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi. Illustration by Ashley Lukashevsky

Marley Dias reads “We March,” written by Shane W. Evans. Illustration by Shane W. Evans

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 8.15

Beer Birthdays

Adam Eulberg (1835)

Christian Benjamin Feigenspan (1844)

Charles D. Goepper (1860)

Christine Celis (1962)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Julia Child; chef, writer (1912)

Stieg Larsson; Swedish writer (1954)

Jennifer Lawrence; actor (1990)

Oscar Peterson; Canadian jazz pianist (1925)

Walter Scott; Scottish poet, writer (1771)

Famous Birthdays

Ben Affleck; actor (1972)

Tommy Aldridge; drummer (1950)

Ethel Barrymore; actor (1879)

Leonard Baskin; sculptor (1922)

Marion Bauer; composer (1882)

Robert Bolt; English playwright, screenwriter (1924)

Napoleon Bonaparte; French emperor, soldier (1769)

Estelle Brody; silent film actress (1900)

Jim Brothers; sculptor (1941)

Jan Brzechwa; Polish author and poet (1898)

Bobby Byrd; singer-songwriter (1934)

Bobby Caldwell; singer-songwriter (1951)

Cadence Carter; pornstar (1996)

Lillian Carter; Jimmy Carter's mother (1898)

Judy Cassab; Austrian-Australian painter (1920)

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; English composer (1875)

Tom Colicchio; chef (1962)

Charles Comiskey; baseball player and manager (1859)

Leslie Comrie; New Zealand astronomer (1893)

Mike Connors; actor (1925)

Gerty Cori; Czech-American biochemist and physiologist (1896)

Walter Crane; English artist (1845)

Jim Dale; English actor (1935)

Abby Dalton; actress (1932)

Louis de Broglie; French physicist (1892)

Régine Deforges; French author (1935)

Thomas de Quincey; English writer (1785)

Linda Ellerbee; television journalist (1944)

Edna Ferber; writer (1885)

Eliza Lee Cabot Follen; writer (1787)

Huntz Hall; actor (1919)

Signe Hasso; Swedish-American actress (1915)

Richard F. Heck; chemist (1931)

Bobby Helms; singer (1933)

Natasha Henstridge; actor (1974)

Wendy Hiller; actor (1912)

Wolfgang Hohlbein; German author (1953)

Stix Hooper; jazz drummer (1938)

Jacques Ibert; French composer (1890)

Blind Jack; English engineer (1717)

Tom Johnston; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1948)

Julius Katchen; pianist and composer (1926)

George Klein; Canadian inventor of the motorized wheelchair (1904)

Aleksey Krylov; Russian mathematician and engineer (1863)

T.E. Lawrence; Welsh writer (1888)

Rose Maddox; singer-songwriter and fiddle player (1925)

Rose Marie; comedian, actor (1923)

Debra Messing; actor (1968)

Sami Michael; Iraqi-Israeli author and playwright (1926)

Giorgos Mouzakis; Greek trumpet player (1922)

E. Nesbit; English author and poet (1858)

Pyotr Novikov; Russian mathematician (1901)

Paul Outerbridge; photographer (1896)

Inês Pedrosa; Portuguese writer (1962)

Bill Pinkney, American pop singer (1925)

Luigi Pulci; Italian poet (1432)

Paul Rand; graphic designer (1914)

Nicholas Roeg; film director (1928)

Mike Seeger; folk musician and folklorist (1933)

John Silber; philosopher (1926)

Leo Theremin; Russian inventor (1896)

Rob Thomas; author (1965)

Jack Tworkov; Polish-American painter (1900)

Gene Upshaw; Oakland Raiders G (1945)

Mikao Usui; Japanese spiritual leader, founded Reiki (1865)

Jimmy Webb; songwriter (1946)

Hugo Winterhalter; composer and bandleader (1909)

Peter York; rock drummer (1942)

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REVIEW: "Well Intentioned White People" at Barrington Stage

REVIEW: “Well Intentioned White People” at Barrington Stage

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Brand new MUST-SEE!

👑👰 Mrs Christ is NOT a damsel in distress.

⬆️ She is "married to the job", championing the causes nearest and dearest to the Son of God: TWO BECOME ONE.

When seeking to develop a relationship with the Almighty CREATOR of EVERYTHING, ⬆️ and this applies to every person, you begin as a child crying out to one's Parent. Your being in a state of spiritual infancy, there's NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT.

But you were NEVER meant to remain at that level. The goal is to mature. There are NO child brides, in Heaven.

Required viewing ⬆️‼️

Nobody can accurately predict WHEN/IF 🇨🇳 chinese-origin coronavirus may shorten your life on Earth.

We can, HOWEVER, take steps to improve our immune systems. HELP yourself!

REMEMBER: testing positive for 😷 the bio-weapon is NOT a death sentence, and it shouldn't be a reason to further quarantine those who are healthy.

There are demonic operative FORCES at WORK, within both State and Federal levels, playing games with the pandemic.

FAKE NEWS, UNDER ORDERS, ignored social distancing during BLM/"juneteenth" PLANNED protests, which helped worsen the spread of communicable, infectious disease.

DON'T throw medications at covid-19, as a FIRST MEASURE of defense.

DETOXIFY, from widespread poisons ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️.

UP your intake of fruits and vegetables.

MUST WATCH ⬆️🙏‼️

☠️ DETOXIFY, from al sharpton.

American propaganda machines provide a 😭 DISSERVICE.

Deep State SPITS out the SAME retread, TIRED mouthpieces, WITHIN the Black community, to keep 🐑 🐑 SHEEPLE placated.

AND/OR, you never hear from freethinkers.

Chaplain Barry Black is a breath of fresh air!!

The FIRST 🇺🇸 Black-American billionaire speaks FREELY. I respect STRAIGHT talkers, even when I may disagree with them.

Black Americans who dare have independent opinions that don't support the SWAMP🐀RATS are marginalized ⬇️. They don't want Republicans gaining momentum, even if it means reducing 🇺🇸 the United States to RUBBLE 😭.

Father God, 🛐 Christ's Bridal Party calls on you to straighten this out.

DETOXIFY, from demo-🐀RATS:

DON'T rely on twisted narrative sound bites, remixed WITH LIES.

6/24/20 was largely ignored by compromised nightly news.

President Trump was interviewed for 20 minutes, speaking directly to Christians.

Please SHARE ⬆️ THIS.

Our current deathmatch struggles PIT us against angelic outcasts, NOT against sinful humankind. 👿 satan is the FOE.

Battles ahead are not for the faint at heart. Training can make ALL the difference between life and death! STUDY the training manual.

MUST WATCH ⬆️‼️