the social context of hair for Jews of color today, SARAH
SELTZER talked to CHAVA SHERVINGTON, a longtime
diversity activist in the Jewish community, as well as an attorney and mom,
who by her own admission has become “obsessed with hair issues” as she
helps her kids navigate the complex politics of their Black hair.
feature
I wanted to take off my ring, but I needed a ritual to acknowledge that Divinity was present, even at this moment of loss.
feature
My mother’s hair is colorful ropes of cotton, carefully and methodically wrapped in a rainbow of layers growing in width as the ends disappear into hidden corners below her hairline. As a girl, I often sat in my mother’s room, watching her in this morning ritual as she added the last detail of her dressing.. Read more »
Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States (1869-1877). Photo Wikimedia Commons
By Carl Sferrazza Anthony
There’s as much of the old sod in the White House as there is on its south lawn.
The backgrounds of America’s First Families are diverse: Nancy Reagan and Lady Bird Johnson have Spanish forebears; Herbert Hoover was Swiss and Canadian; Mamie Eisenhower was part Swedish while Ike was German; Martin Van Buren and the Roosevelts were Dutch; James Garfield had a royal strain of French; Eliza Johnson’s parents were immigrant Scottish sandal-makers; both Calvin Coolidge and Edith Wilson had American Indian blood–she being a direct descendant of Pocahantas.
It’s almost as if the Sandhills of Nebraska were made just for raising cattle. Arthur Bowring knew that the Sandhills were unique. Just days after his 21st birthday, he acquired 160 acres near Merriman. He began raising Shorthorn cattle, but eventually settled on Herefords for the herd at his Barr 99 Ranch north of town.
In 1894, Bowring built and lived in a sod house until 1908, when he married a local schoolteacher, Anna Mabel Holbrook. He began building a small, frame house for his new bride. But tragedy struck in August 1909 when Anna and their newborn son died in childbirth during a violent thunderstorm, with Arthur stuck miles away working in the hayfield.
In love and in life, we make choices.
In the end, we hope those decisions were the right ones. That we selected the proper career. That maybe our husband or wife was our one true love, our forever Valentine. And that all those paths we chose along the way, perhaps, were woven together into some sort of destiny.
But what if we d made different choices?
Would it have changed who we became?
Different choices may have altered life s course for Russell Staufken
For Russell Staufken, different choices may have altered his life s course. Too many times, it turned out, he didn t do enough right things. He was a 73-year-old Navy veteran, who died alone 20 years ago. He d lived in a grimy, unkempt trailer in Sunny Acres park in Perry, a small town just outside of Canton, Ohio. He was dead for a week before anyone missed him. The only people at his funeral were the funeral director and a military honor guard.