The forthcoming study with Berklee and ASU isn’t the first initiative put in place by the Recording Academy addressing women’s representation in music. In 2019, the organization launched Women In the Mix, which prompted hundreds of music professionals and organizations to pledge to consider at least two women in the selection process every time a producer or engineer is hired. Also in 2019, the Recording Academy pledged to double the number of women voters by 2025. To date, it has reached 33 percent of that goal by adding 831 new women voting members to its membership.
“Two years ago, we started our Women in the Mix initiative with the primary goal of raising awareness,” said Harvey Mason jr., the Academy’s chair and interim president/CEO, in a statement. “[We] had an overwhelming initial response, garnering support from more than 650 of the most influential music people, executives and organizations. While we are hopeful that we will still see benefit from that effort,
Blackface, Cultural Lies, and Ellen G. White Or, What Is Present Truth?
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January 19, 2021
On July 4, 1912, eighty-three-year-old Ellen G. White celebrated, with dozens of Adventists, land purchased for the St. Helena Sanitarium in Northern California. In the early years of the twentieth century, Adventists considered sanitariums one of the most influential organizations in promoting the present truth, stated inversely as combating the culture s lies. They believed commonly held cultural lies spread pain, destruction, and ruin on the population. With sanitariums, Adventists counterattacked the scattering of lies, primarily lies woven around nutrition and healthful living. With White s help, three sanitariums, Paradise Valley, Glendale, and Loma Linda, mushroomed in Southern California in the previous decade. In Angwin, California, the Adventist family took a day off to relax and unwind. White participated in the flag-raising ceremony, several patriotic rites, mingl
All three vacant seats on the Claremore School Board will be filled without an election.
One candidate filed in each of three open board positions. That means each would be uncontested in a general election.
Richard D. Masier will fill board position 1 â a five-year term.
Chelsea A. Mize will fill board position 2 â an unexpired one-year term.
Shane Huey will fill board position 5 â an unexpired four-year term.
The Board of Education Primary Election will be Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2020.
A primary election is needed whenever there are more than two filed candidates â such as in Owasso Public schools where four candidates filed, Stephanie Ruttman, Lynn Cagle, Rick Lang, Kristin Vivar and Lisa M. Anderson.