Marchers Unite Against Sexual Violence
The night belongs to men, but women are demanding it, a feminist writer said Saturday night at a rally protesting sexual violence against...
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- Dec 11, 2017
- 5 min
Remembrance of Christmas Things Past in Virginia
These photographs of the City Market, built in 1923, are from the collection of Carroll H. Walker. Vendors (above) sell cheeses, fine...
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
- Dec 5, 2017
- 5 min
Chinese Culture Binds Families in Virginia
Linda Mah Ark sat in the restaurant holding Tiffany, her youngest daughter. The child was unusually cranky, Mrs. Ark explained to nearby...
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- Dec 3, 2017
- 1 min
Perfect Marriage of Science and Beauty: The Red Violin
“I guess I never thought I would find it. The ultimate thing, as I see it. The perfect marriage of science and beauty. An impossible...
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
- Dec 1, 2017
- 5 min
Violin Art: Rhapsody in Wood
Shoulders, necks, backs and bellies were strewn on workbenches in the violin maker’s shop. Wood chips made a carpet of spruce and maple....
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- Dec 1, 2017
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
- Nov 26, 2017
- 1 min
Utopia in Belize
“The Mosquito Coast” film tells the story of an obsessive inventor who, fed up with consumerism and the American Dream, takes his family...
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
- Nov 25, 2017
- 1 min
"We Keep A-Coming"
"I ain't never gonna be scared no more. I was though. For a while, it looked as though we was beat. Good and beat. Looked like we didn't...
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
- Nov 20, 2017
- 1 min
Harvesting My Olives
I whacked half of my 42 trees with a chestnut stick, I combed some branches with a plastic fork nailed to the end of a stick, and I spent...
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
- Nov 10, 2017
- 3 min
British Blacks Don't Exchange "the Look"
"The Problem We All Live With," a Norman Rockwell painting, depicts Ruby Bridges, 6, on her way to an all-white school in New Orleans on...
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
- Nov 6, 2017
- 4 min
Exorcise the Oppressive Fear of Crime
This piece was first published in the Western Daily Press of Bristol, U.K. on July 6, 2000. CBS news had labelled Britain a battleground...
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
- Nov 1, 2017
- 4 min
Village on Wheels: the Country Bus
This piece first appeared in the Western Daily Press in Bristol in the U.K. on August 1, 2000. I needed milk . . . and an escape from the...
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
- Oct 30, 2017
- 4 min
Call Centers Put Humanity on Hold
This article was first published in the Western Daily Press in Bristol in the U.K. on the 14th of February 2001. “They’re playing this...
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
- Oct 24, 2017
- 5 min
Please Give to Portuguese Fire Victims
A solidarity bank account has been created for the victims of the fires in Oliveira do Hospital, Portugal, managed by the municipal...
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- Oct 23, 2017
- 1 min
Temos Amanha - We Have Tomorrow
Una semana depois as chamas devoram 520 milhoes de hectares em Portugal, as pessoas ainda estão em estado de choque. Todos perderam algo...
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
- Oct 20, 2017
- 1 min
Charging Columns of Flames
I thought that I was safe from fire moving to the edge of my village, Fiais da Beira in central Portugal. Still, the October 15, 2017...
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- Oct 11, 2017
- 1 min
Om Khalthoum: Star of the East
“Imagine a singer with the virtuosity of Joan Sutherland or Ella Fitzgerald, the public persona of Eleanor Roosevelt and the audience of...
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
- Oct 6, 2017
- 4 min
A Lifeline of Words
Poet, author, teacher, film critic and arts activist Morton Marcus (10 September 1936-28 October 2009) The following piece was first...
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- Oct 2, 2017
- 1 min
Tom Petty's "Free Fallin'"
Musician Tom Petty (20 October 1950 - 2 October 2017) #TomPetty #FreeFallin
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
- Oct 1, 2017
- 1 min
Chance Encounters
What will happen as we tune out or tune down the world around us with headphones and earbuds and earplugs? Will we lose the ability to...
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