AHF Board member Billie Jean Young, Ph.D., was among five Alabama women inducted into the Southern Rural Black Women’s Hall of Fame. The Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative was founded in 2005. Every two years it honors five rural black women from each of the three states included—Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia. The five women were [...]
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Wherever I may be, whatever I’m engaged in, if I hear music start up—I stop. I listen. And I involuntarily identify the tune. This automatic name-that-tune response must have imprinted on my brain during my early years of music training and brief career teaching music. If I go to any restaurant that features live musicians [...]
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Halloween got me thinking about horror fiction. I’m a big fan of the horror genre, and I think that one of the reasons I enjoy it so much is that it’s revelatory. What we fear says a great deal about who we are.
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Among my many faults is my love for music. I love sports in a sinful way as well, but that is a story for another day. There is a saying around the Tuxedo Junction section of Ensley: “The man who sings his own praise will usually be singing a solo, and will almost always pitch [...]
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The day began with my reading a New York Times news service report about a 4.4-million-year-old hominid skeleton found in Ethiopia by an international team of scientists. Ardi, short for Ardipithecus ramidus, stood 4 feet tall with a brain about the size of a modern chimp. The report noted that her hands and arms were [...]
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I was talking to a coworker a few weeks ago about some night classes she had taken recently–one of which was in the humanities. She mentioned that she had written a paper on Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel, the famous children’s books author and illustrator. I assumed that the subject matter of her paper was directed [...]
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