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Celebrating 30 years of culture, music and community in New Orleans

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is excited to partner with ESSENCE Festival of Culture, presented by Coca-Cola, to celebrate Black culture and empowerment.  The ESSENCE Festival is the world’s largest music and cultural event organized by and for Black women. Taking place in our priority place of New Orleans, we invite you to join us in person or virtually as we honor...

Mass shootings driven more by ‘culture’ than lack of gun control, can’t be solved by Congress – Conservative Partnership Institute

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Anjali Enjeti on Asian American identity in white-dominant culture – Scalawag

Click to jump to an excerpt from The Parted Earth, below. I first met Anjali Enjeti in the glass-vaulted lobby of Washington, D.C.’s Renaissance Hotel. The author and organizer had mobilized more than 20 Georgia writers attending the 2017 AWP conference to host letter-writing parties in our home communities to deliver to our senators. We received mixed results...

Fast-rising Alejandro Rama sees culture as key

At 17 years old, Alejandro Rama is already among the most important figures on the Pine Ridge reservation. Basketball has helped elevate the Red Cloud High School senior to prominence as he considers recruiting offers from area colleges. He understands his position as a role model and openly embraces the responsibilities that come with it. “Ale is a leader, not...

NASA’s Commitment to Safety Starts with its Culture

NASA works on projects that often have never been done, or perhaps the way they are being done has never been tried. Living on the edge of innovation requires a high degree of risk. After organizational silence led to the loss of space shuttle Challenger and its crew in 1986, NASA vowed to change the culture and make safety its priority. Allowing unimaginable levels...

Apply Now for 2021 Native Youth and Culture Fund Grants

First Nations Now Accepting Proposals for 2021 Native Youth and Culture Fund Grants LONGMONT, Colo. (July 15, 2021) – First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) today announced it is accepting proposals for the Native Youth and Culture Fund (NYCF) for programs that focus on youth and that support the perpetuation of traditional ecological knowledge...

A media and pop culture guide – Scalawag

Copaganda is tired and played. Far too often journalists rely on police, sheriffs, prison officials, and prosecutors as credible sources without scrutiny or even a basic fact-check. These uncritical and unprofessional behaviors lead to an overwhelming amount of traditional news that simply spreads biased police propaganda and stirs up unfounded fears, stifling the...

How ‘Forever New Orleans’ whitewashed the city’s Black culture – Scalawag

Assetua Amenkun remembers very clearly coming back to New Orleans in September 2005, just a few weeks after Hurricane Katrina. She worked as a 911 dispatcher. “I had to come back early,” she said in an interview last year from her 7th Ward home. “And the city, oh my. It was just… beyond the devastation, beyond the physical devastation… There were no...