A Sunday service at NorthStar in Durham.
“There’s a New World Coming” is a song the great Georgia-born singer Bernice Johnson Reagon recorded in 1975. In the early 1960s, Reagon was a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s Freedom Singers, and in 1973 she started Sweet Honey in the Rock, a celebrated Black female a cappella group. But in “There’s a New World Coming,” which appears on her album
Give Your Hands to Struggle, Reagon sings alone: “There’s a new day coming! / Everything’s gon’ be turning over / Everything’s gon’ be turning over / Where you gon’ be standing when it comes?”
Heloise
Dear Heloise: If you need chopped cranberries to make cranberry bread and you don’t have a food processor, just put all the wet ingredients into a blender, mix, then add the cranberries for a pulse or two. So easy! Margaret, La Mirada, Calif.
VEGETABLE ÂCHOWDER WITH BEER
Dear Heloise: You had a soup recipe that sounded strange when I read it, but I made it and it was terrific! It called for beer and cheese as I recall, but I have forgotten the name of the soup. Could you reprint that recipe? Patty G., Stowe, Vt.
Patty, I love this recipe too!