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In 1942, when the long-practicing architect finally gained entry to the American Institute of Architects, the director of Philadelphia’s Museum of Art, a building which Abele helped conceive in a classical Greek style, called him “one of the most sensitive designers anywhere in America.”

 

Source: Meet the black architect who designed Duke University 37 years before he could have attended it – Curbed

An indigenous family-owned business is hoping to expand their reach after creating a hand sanitizer inspired by traditional medicinal plants

Source: Indigenous family creates sweet grass, sage, cedar, sweet tobacco infused hand sanitizers

When Darius Settles died from COVID-19 on the Fourth of July, his family and the city of Nashville, Tenn., were shocked. Even the mayor noted the passing of a 30-year-old without any underlying conditions — one of the city’s youngest fatalities at that point.

Settles was also uninsured and had just been sent home from an emergency room for the second time, and he was worried about medical bills. An investigation into his death found that, like many uninsured COVID-19 patients, he had never been told that cost shouldn’t be a concern.

 

Source: Hospital Bills For Uninsured COVID-19 Patients Are Covered Under The CARES Act : Shots – Health News : NPR

The most famous dysfunctional family of 1990s television enjoyed, by today’s standards, an almost dreamily secure existence that now seems out of reach for all too many Americans. I refer, of course, to the Simpsons. Homer, a high-school graduate whose union job at the nuclear-power plant required little technical skill, supported a family of five. A home, a car, food, regular doctor’s appointments, and enough left over for plenty of beer at the local bar were all attainable on a single working-class salary. Bart might have had to find $1,000 for the family to go to England, but he didn’t have to worry that his parents would lose their home.

Source: The Life in The Simpsons Is No Longer Attainable – The Atlantic

In the wealthiest country in the world, there’s no reason anyone should be poor. Period.

 

Source: Ending Poverty in the United States Would Actually Be Pretty Easy

Since 2011 that respected kora player, vocalist and instrumentalist Sona Jobarteh dropped the album Fasiya, the world-renowned musician has not released any other album. Instead, she has been placing all her finances and energies into the Gambia Academy of Music and Culture she opened in her home country, The Gambia, in 2015.

The school is the first of its kind in The Gambia that teaches music and academic studies as an integrated course of study. In other words, the Academy educates children in their cultural traditions and heritage alongside the mainstream curriculum.

 

Source: Musician Sona Jobarteh is building Gambia’s first cultural academy for children to study their own culture – Face2Face Africa

 

 

A walk into the future, in a British city where housing is sustainable, energy is locally owned, food is abundant, and the work week is just three days long.

 

Source: The Sustainable Future Town of Your Imagination – Yes! Magazine

 

He was known for his illustrious career as an author and literary pioneer of the 19th century, but this came at a high cost since Alexander Dumas was a Frenchman of African descent.

Source: The rise and fall of Alexandre Dumas, the black author who ruled European literature in the 1800s – Face2Face Africa