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At Least 19 Children at a Chicago Shelter for Immigrant Detainees Have Tested Positive for COVID-19

A coronavirus outbreak at a Heartland Alliance facility on Chicago’s South Side may be the largest outbreak of the virus in any shelter for immigrant youth in the country. At least 19 children and two staff have tested positive.

Update, April 14, 2020: On Tuesday, Heartland officials said that the number of immigrant children in their care who had tested positive for COVID-19 had nearly doubled, from 19 to 37. Of those, 28 were asymptomatic at the time of the testing, the agency said. “To our knowledge, there’s not an increase in staff cases,” a spokeswoman for the organization said. “We are working hard to obtain testing for staff, too.”

Update, April 21, 2020: Heartland officials said five more immigrant children in their care tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total to 42. A Heartland spokeswoman said Monday that 33 children were asymptomatic at the time of testing. “All children are doing well and their prognosis is very good,” the spokeswoman said.

At least 19 children and two employees at a Chicago shelter for immigrant youth have tested positive for COVID-19 in recent days, in what appears to be the largest outbreak of the virus in the country in shelters for unaccompanied minors.

According to an email sent to staff Sunday, Heartland Human Care Services officials said the first positive test results were reported at its Bronzeville shelter on Friday and that additional cases there were confirmed over the weekend.

On Monday, officials from Heartland Alliance, the umbrella nonprofit organization that oversees the shelter program, confirmed the positive tests and said they expect there will be more cases.

“We are operating under the assumption that we will see additional positive diagnoses as we receive results from the other tests that have been administered, and the steps we are taking to ensure the health and safety of our participants and staff are based on that assumption,” Mailee Garcia, a spokeswoman for the organization, wrote in a statement. “The prognosis for all of the children in our care is very good, and we are continuing to focus on our participants’ health and well-being.”

As of last Wednesday, only six COVID-19 cases had been confirmed among children and adolescents housed in shelters around the country, according to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which oversees the nation’s shelter program. All six were at shelters in New York.

ORR officials said there were also 39 “self-reports” of positive COVID-19 tests among personnel affiliated with shelter programs in six states as of Wednesday. ORR has not provided updated figures, despite repeated requests since Friday.

COVID-19 is a less serious health threat to children than it is to adults.

Heartland, according to the copies of the email obtained by ProPublica Illinois, began “trying to secure tests” for children at the Bronzeville shelter after some of them displayed “COVID-19-like symptoms,” wrote David Sinski, executive director of Heartland Human Care Services.

The email doesn’t detail symptoms, when they became evident or when children were tested. But by Friday, Heartland officials learned that one of its “participants” — as the immigrant children and youth are called — had tested positive.

On Saturday, officials were told that three additional children had tested positive. By Sunday morning, they received positive COVID-19 diagnoses for an additional 15 children, bringing the total to 19. According to the email, 10 of the 19 children are asymptomatic. Two staff members have also tested positive.

“We understand that receiving this news may leave you feeling uncertain and scared,” Sinski wrote to staff. “I want you to know that we are committed to providing you with the information that you need to know in order to keep you and your loved ones healthy and safe.”

It’s unclear how old the infected children are or where they are from. But the Bronzeville shelter, a four-story converted nursing home that can hold up to 250 boys and girls, is licensed to house children from infancy to 17 years old.

Officials said they “immediately” move children to an isolated environment when they show any signs of any illness, including COVID-19, to minimize any risk of community spread. Since Saturday, Heartland has “enhanced our social distancing measures” at the shelters to limit the contact among children and between children and staff, Garcia said.

In his email, Sinski wrote that all remaining children at the facility are being tested and that he expected those results by Tuesday. He also asked all employees who worked on the floors where children who tested positive were living to stay home with pay for two weeks. Staff members who undertake “specific activities” with children will be provided N95 masks, gowns and gloves, and are being screened for COVID-19 symptoms before each shift.

Heartland officials said they are now contracting with additional nurse practitioners to be at the shelter for every shift. They are also exploring a house parent model, which would have a subset of staff be onsite full time for the coming couple of weeks, officials said.

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Heartland officials said the organization is in close contact with ORR and city public health officials.

Shelters for immigrant children, nursing homes and other congregate facilities must report to the city of Chicago when there are two or more positive COVID-19 cases, according to a March order. The city’s Health Department then provides “tailored guidance to facility staff on infection control, including cleaning protocols and how to properly manage both COVID-19 positive and exposed individuals,” a spokesperson said in a statement, adding that clusters of cases have been identified in “several facilities.”

Garcia said the organization is “doing all that we can to advocate for additional testing kits for participants and staff across our programs.” She added that “our team have been stellar and courageous champions during this pandemic, committed to both a high level of quality care and being creative and supportive to each other during this challenging time. They are true heroes.”

The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, which licenses the shelters, has been notified that children at the facility tested positive. “We’ve been in contact, and we’re offering assistance,” said agency spokesman Jassen Strokosch.

Heartland officials said a professional cleaning company has performed multiple cleanings of the facility in the past week and will continue to perform weekly deep cleanings.

According to ORR guidance meant to limit the spread of COVID-19, children who have symptoms and are recommended for testing are isolated from other children pending test results. Shelter programs are required to do twice-daily temperature checks of immigrant children and alert ORR if a child has a temperature above 100 degrees. ORR has also implemented a mandatory temperature check for anyone entering a shelter, according to officials.

ORR has also stopped placing children at shelters in California, New York and Washington, with limited exceptions, and said it is trying to find local shelters for newly arrived immigrant children to limit air travel. Previously, children were moved to shelters around the country where beds were available.

About 2,800 children are being held in the nation’s shelter system. There are 69 children at three shelters run by Heartland. The organization previously operated five shelters, all in Chicago, but has consolidated the program in response to COVID-19. “Our census was lower and consolidating sites has allowed us to implement the measures ... to safeguard the health of our staff and participants,” a spokeswoman said.

No children have tested positive for COVID-19 at another group of shelters in Illinois run by Maryville Academy, a Catholic child welfare agency, said Sister Catherine Ryan, Maryville’s executive director. About 30 teens are currently housed at two Maryville shelters.

“I’m very grateful that all of our children are fine,” Ryan said. “Obviously, we are taking a lot of precautions to keep it that way.”

Lawyers and advocates for detained immigrant children say they’ve been worried an outbreak would occur in a shelter. Lawyers went to court in late March to ask the federal government to speed up the release of children in its custody.

“It’s been our concern all along as advocates that jails, prisons, detention facilities, even licensed shelter detention, it’s where we’re going to see the massive outbreaks and it’s going to be exponentially higher than in the broader community,” said Holly Cooper, co-director of the Immigration Law Clinic at the University of California, Davis.

Cooper said she is particularly worried about children who have preexisting conditions that have not been identified by shelter officials or ORR and will make them more vulnerable to COVID-19.

“The goal,” she said, “is to get kids out of congregate care because there’s no way it can comply with [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] guidance even if you’re using all the hand sanitizer in the world.”

Duaa Eldeib contributed reporting.

Update, April 13, 2020: This story was updated to include new comment from the Chicago Health Department.

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Born on this day…

June 7, 1917

Gwendolyn Brooks: Writer, Poet, Educator

Quote: “Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.”

Books about and featuring the poetry of Gwendolyn Hooks:

A Song for Gwendolyn Brooks

Alice Faye Duncan

Xia Gordon

Sterling, 2019

Bronzeville Boys and Girls

Gwendolyn Brooks

Faith Ringgold

HarperCollins, 2006

We Are Shining

Gwendolyn Brooks

Jan Spivey Gilchrist

HarperCollins, 2017

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borkal14 · 3 years

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Week 1: Bronzeville Boys and Girls by Gwendolyn Brooks

Revisiting Bronzeville Boys and Girls during Su ’21 – using my poetry square for this one 🙂

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chrisdevins · 3 years

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Over 300 Girl Scouts came out today to check out the "Stations" install at 39th and Michigan and learn about these recreated scenes from Bronzeville's family photo album. Boys better catch up.😀 (at South Side, Chicago) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQUBph7h_MY/?utm_medium=tumblr

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At Least 12 Killed, 43 Wounded In Weekend Shootings Across Chicago CHICAGO (CBS) — At least 55 people were shot across Chicago over the weekend, 12 of them fatally, including a 15-year-old boy who was shot in the head on the front porch of a home in Lawndale, and three double homicides. Dajon Gater, 15, was on the front porch of a home in the 3900 block of West Lexington Street around 11:50 p.m. Friday, when two people approached him, pulled out guns, and started shooting, according to police and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office. READ MORE: Father Michael Pfleger To Be Reinstated As Pastor Of St. Sabina, After Review Board Clears Him Of Sex Abuse Claims He was rushed to the Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition but died a few hours later. About 90 minutes earlier, a 23-year-old woman and an 18-year-old man were fatally shot after a fight at a liquor store at 501 N. Kedzie Av. in Humboldt Park. Around 10:30 p.m. Friday, they both got into an argument with two other men in the store. Things turned physical, and one of the men reached for a gun and shot the woman in the torso. Workers at the store said the gunman also shot the 18-year-old as he stood in the doorway. That’s when everything spilled into the parking lot, where the woman collapsed on the pavement and the teen ran off. The woman was taken to Stroger Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. The 18-year-old who was with her was taken to Humboldt Park Health, where he was pronounced dead. The Cook County Medical examiner’s office has identified the woman as 23-year-old Destiny Nunez, and the 18-year-old as Adrian Navarro. Shortly before 2 a.m. Saturday, two men were standing outside in the 4000 block of West Wilcox Street in West Garfield Park, when someone walked up and shot them both, police said. A 24-year-old man identified as Haniff Collins was shot in the head, neck, chest, and leg, and was pronounced dead at Loretto Hospital. A 28-year-old man identified as Derrick McCampbell was shot in the chest, torso, and arm, and was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital. Around 7:30 p.m. Saturday, one man was killed and two others were wounded in a drive-by shooting in the Washington Park neighborhood. Police said the victims were standing on the sidewalk on the 5500 block of South Michigan Avenue, when people in two passing vehicles — a gray Jeep and a blue Acura — started shooting. All three victims were taken to University of Chicago Medical Center. A 46-year-old man who was shot in the back was pronounced dead at the hospital. He was identified as Johnnie Williams. A 30-year-old man who was shot in the head was listed in critical condition. A 50-year-old man who was shot in the arm was listed in good condition. At 12:14 a.m. Sunday, a 49-year-old man was standing outside in the 0-99 block of North Kilbourn Avenue in the West Garfield Park neighborhood, when a man got out of a silver sedan and fired shots – striking the victim multiple times in the face and body. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. READ MORE: Kiar Evans Charged In Federal Court With Garfield Park Carjacking At 7:11 p.m. Sunday, two men were traveling in a vehicle in the 3700 block of West Flournoy Street in the Homan Square neighborhood when a man shot them both from the street. One of the men, 25, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital with gunshot wounds to the abdomen and was pronounced dead there. The other, 31, was taken to Mount Sinai in good condition with a graze wound to the right shoulder. At 8:42 p.m. Sunday, police were called to the 4600 block of South Federal Street in Bronzeville and found two men unresponsive in a car. Both of the men had suffered multiple gunshot wounds to their bodies and were taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in grave condition. The men, 49 and 56, were later both pronounced dead. Around 1:30 a.m. Monday, officers responding to a ShotSpotter alert of gunfire on the 4500 block of West Maypole in West Garfield Park found a 56-year-old man lying on the street with a gunshot wound to the neck. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. On Sunday at 2:52 p.m., four men were shot and wounded in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. The men were in the street in the 3300 block of West Ohio Street when a vehicle pulled up and someone inside shot them all. A 20-year-old man was shot multiple times throughout his body and self-transported to Humboldt Park Health in good condition. A 25-year-old woman was shot in the right side and was taken to Stroger Hospital of Cook County, also in good condition. A 21-year-old man was shot in the back and was also taken to Stroger, where he was reported in good condition. A 41-year-old man was taken to Stroger in critical condition with multiple gunshot wounds to the body. The weekend’s gun violence also included two shootings on Chicago expressways on Saturday. Illinois State Police said shortly after midnight, a vehicle was headed west on the Eisenhower Expressway ramp to Austin Boulevard, when someone in another vehicle started shooting. The 27-year-old driver was taken to the hospital, where he later died. A 29-year-old passenger in the vehicle was also hospitalized with minor injuries. A 19-year-old passenger was not hurt. Saturday evening, around 5:15 p.m., Illinois State Police responded to reports of a shooting on the Stevenson Expressway at Kedzie Avenue. One victim was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. MORE NEWS: COVID In Illinois: More Than 65% Of Adults Have Received One Shot Of The Vaccine In other shootings since 5 p.m. Friday, police said: Around 5:25 p.m. Friday, a 33-year-old man was standing in front of his home in the 4300 block of West Monroe Street in West Garfield Park, when someone shot him multiple times. He suffered 11 gunshot wounds, and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was stabilized, but unable to provide any further details on the shooting. At about 8:15 p.m. Friday, a 21-year-old man and a 28-year-old woman were near a parking lot in the 8900 block of South Burley Avenue in the South Chicago neighborhood, when they both heard gunshots and realized they’d been wounded. The man was shot multiple times in the body, and the woman was shot in the neck and back. Both were taken to University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition. Shortly after 10 p.m. Friday, a 46-year-old woman was standing outside on the 7300 block of South Union Avenue in Englewood, when someone in a passing car shot her in the stomach. She was taken to University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition. At about 10:25 p.m. Friday, a 34-year-old man was riding his bicycle on the 11800 block of South Indiana Avenue in West Pullman, when someone shot him in the shoulder. He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in serious condition. Around 11 p.m. Friday, a 39-year-old man was walking on the 1300 block of West Hastings Street in University Village, when someone shot him in the hand and arm. He was taken to Stroger Hospital in fair condition, and told police he did not see the shooter. Around 11:40 p.m. Friday, a 32-year-old man was driving on the 3400 block of West Harrison Street in Homan Square, when someone shot him twice in the leg. Police did not provide information on his condition. Shortly before 1 a.m. Saturday, a 44-year-old man was standing in the 1200 block of South Fairfield Avenue near Douglass Park, when someone in a passing SUV shot him in the arm. Friends took him to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was listed in good condition. Also shortly before 1 a.m. Saturday, a 23-year-old man was sitting in the rear seat of a rideshare vehicle headed west on 23rd Street near Sacramento Avenue in Little Village, when four men approached as the car was stopped at a detour, and one of them shot the man in the arm. The rideshare driver took the victim to St. Anthony Hospital, where he was listed in good condition. Around 2:15 a.m. Saturday, a 27-year-old man was found lying unresponsive on the 3400 block of West Monroe Street in Fifth City, with gunshot wounds to the face and shoulder. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition. At about 3:30 a.m. Saturday, a 33-year-old man was shot on the first block of North Talman Avenue, and took himself to Stroger Hospital for treatment. Police said he was not cooperating with detectives. Shortly before 6 a.m. Saturday, a 26-year-old man was inside a home on the 8900 block of South Union Avenue in the Gresham neighborhood, when someone climbed up onto a chair outside the home, and shot him through the window. He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in serious condition with gunshot wounds to the leg. At about 6:45 a.m. Saturday, a 30-year-old man was on the 3100 block of West Flournoy Street, when someone in a black sedan shot him in the arm, leg, and back. The victim was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in good condition. Around 4:35 p.m. Saturday, a 57-year-old woman was riding in a vehicle on the 5100 block of South Maplewood Avenue in Gage Park, when another vehicle drove by, and someone got out and started shooting. The woman suffered a graze wound to the head and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in good condition. At 9:05 p.m. Saturday, a 16-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl were in the front yard of a home in the 2000 block of West Touhy Avenue around 9:05 p.m., when someone pulled up in a vehicle and fired shots at them. The 16-year-old boy suffered a gunshot wound to the left leg, and the 12-year-old girl suffered a laceration to the left arm from broken glass. Both were taken to AMITA Health Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston in good condition. At 10:35 p.m. Saturday, two men were standing outside in the 9100 block of South Wallace Street in the Brainerd neighborhood when they were each shot in the arm. An acquaintance drove the men, 22 and 23, to St. Bernard Hospital. Both were in fair condition, but the older man was transferred to Stroger Hospital of Cook County. At 12:39 a.m. Sunday, a 20-year-old man was walking outside with a group of people in the 100 block of North Wabash Avenue downtown, when another man walking by with another group fired shots and grazed his leg. The victim said he did not know anyone in the group that included the gunman, and he refused medical treatment at the scene. The gunman was wearing a black hooded sweat shirt and ski mask. At 1:20 a.m. Sunday, a 15-year-old boy was walking in the 4100 block of West Arthington Street when someone in a passing black vehicle fired shots and struck him in the leg. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in fair condition. At 1:26 a.m. Sunday, an 18-year-old man was standing in front of a restaurant in the 0-99 block of East Cermak Road when three occupants of a dark-colored sport-utility vehicle began shooting at him. He was shot five times throughout his body and his condition was stabilized as he was taken to Mercy Hospital & Medical Center. The victim said the SUV circled the block several times before the occupants started shooting. At 1:31 a.m. Sunday, a 35-year-old woman was among a group of people that got into a quarrel with another group in the 200 block of West Illinois Street in River North, when a man shot her in the lower back. She was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in serious condition, while the suspected gunman was arrested minutes later a block away after witnesses saw him running from the scene. It is not known if the woman was the intended target. At 1:31 a.m. Sunday, a 24-year-old woman was standing on the sidewalk in the 3800 block of West Grenshaw Street with a group of people when someone fired shots. The woman was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in good condition with a gunshot wound to the right calf. At 1:34 a.m. Sunday, a 28-year-old woman was walking in the 7300 block of South Prairie Avenue when a man came up and tried to talk to her. The woman got into the front passenger side of her sister’s car, and as the car began to move, the man fired several shots and struck the woman. The woman was shot eight times and was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition. At 2:23 a.m. Sunday, a 54-year-old woman was outside with a small group of people in the 2900 block of South State Street when she was shot in the foot and grazed in the ankle. The woman said she did not see the shooter or shooters and did not know where the shots came from. She was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in fair condition. At 4:15 a.m. Sunday, a 22-year-old man was standing outside in the 4700 block of South Loomis Boulevard when someone got out of a white sport-utility vehicle and shot him twice in the hand. He was taken to Stroger Hospital of Cook County in serious condition. Police said the gunman was wearing all black. At 4:38 a.m. Sunday, a 17-year-old boy was shot once in the hand in the 5300 block of South Justine Street. He was taken to the U of C Medical Center where his condition was stabilized, and he was uncooperative about details with regard to a shooter. At 5:45 a.m. Sunday, a 33-year-old man was shot in the right hand and grazed in the right arm in the 4700 block of West Van Buren Street. He self-transported to Mount Sinai Hospital and was reported in good condition. At 1:50 p.m. Sunday, a man of an unknown age was shot multiple times in the 2800 block of West Walton Street. He was taken to AMITA Health Resurrection Medical Center in good condition. Around 10:25 p.m. Sunday, a 48-year-old man was in a gangway on the 8900 block of South Harper Avenue in the Calumet Heights neighborhood, when someone shot him in the arm. He was taken to University of Chicago Medical Center in good condition. At about 11:50 p.m. Sunday, officers responding to a call of a shooting on the 300 block of North Loomis Street in West Town found a 22-year-old man in the stairwell of a building, with a gunshot wound to the left leg. He was taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition. Shortly after midnight Monday, two people were sitting in a vehicle at a stop sign on the 2100 block of North Laramie Avenue in the Hanson Park neighborhood, when someone in a passing vehicle started shooting. The driver, a 25-year-old man, was shot in the arm, leg, and backside, and was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in fair condition. The passenger, a 23-year-old woman, was shot in the head, and was taken to Illinois Masonic in critical condition. Also shortly after midnight Monday, officers responding to a ShotSpotter alert of gunfire on the 9600 block of South Avenue M in the East Side neighborhood found a 20-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the face. He was taken to University of Chicago Medical Center in serous condition. At about 2 a.m. Monday, officers found a 25-year-old man lying on the street in the 2500 block of West LeMoyne Street in Humboldt Park, with a gunshot wound to the chest. He was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition. Source link Orbem News #cbsnchicago #Chicago #chicagonews #Crime #killed #local #news #shooting #shootings #syndicatedlocal #Weekend #weekendshootings #weekendviolence #Wounded

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knoxspeccoll · 4 years

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Stack Stories!

This week we are finding love in between the stacks.

And look, on this Valentine’s Day, the stacks gave us a gift: a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks. (Your Valentine could never!)

Brooks was the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for her collection Annie Allen in 1950. She is also the first Black woman named Poet Laureate of Illinois (1968-2000). Brooks published by the time she was 13, and by the age of 17, she regularly published in the poetry column of The Chicago Defender. Her other collections include, A Street in Bronzeville, Bronzeville Boys and Girls, and Mayor Harold Washington; and Chicago, the I Will City, and Report from Part One (her autobiography). Many of her written works can be found in the Seymour Library!

Gwendolyn Brooks visited Knox College in the Fall of 1973, 1975, and 1989. Among the Coffee Talks and lectures Brooks left us a valuable artifact in our Special Collections. Below you can find her Poem “Black Love” in full, signed by her in 1989.

“Black Love” by Gwendolyn Brooks, PS3503 .R7244 B54

Special Lectures and Courses 1972-78, Knox Archives

Special Lectures and Courses 1987-1990, Knox Archives

#love #valentine #poetry #gwendolyn brooks #special collections #Knox College

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uwmspeccoll · 3 years

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Magnificent Women Monday

During Black History Month, we featured Bronzeville Boys and Girls written by legendary American poet Gwendolyn Brooks. One post was simply not enough to convey the range of Brooks’s work, so we’ve chosen to dedicate this #Magnificent Women Monday to her.

Born in Chicago in 1917, Brooks rose to fame through the portrayals of ordinary life in her community and had published 75 poems in literary magazines by the age of 16. Among her long list of honors is her position as the first African American recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1950 for Annie Allen, and serving as Poet Laurate Consultant in Poetry for the Library of Congress from 1985 to 1986 and Poet Laurate of Illinois from 1968 until her death in 2000. Her poetry reflects an authentic, textured viewpoint of African American life. Toni Morrison crediting her with creating space for young Black writers and artists to exist in freely.

Her activism in promoting African American literature led her to leave her influential publisher Harper and Row in 1970 for Dudley Randall’s Broadside Press, and she would continue to work mainly with African American publishers for the rest of her life. Part of the widespread interest in her work lies in her ability to bridge the gap between the academic poetry stylings of the 1940s and Black militant writings of the 1960s as described by George E. Kent in A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks, allowing a political consciousness to inform her writing without allowing it to become the lone message of her work. We hold 11 titles by Gwendolyn Brooks. Shown here in order are:

1.) Portrait of Gwendolyn Brooks by Roy Lewis from Riot, Broadside Press. 1970. 2-4.) Title page and poems from the first edition of A Street in Bronzeville, Brooks's first published collection, Harper & Brothers, 1945. 5.) Dust jacket designed by Shirley Smith from the first edition of The Bean Eaters, a collection of poems that follows the slow rhythm of an elderly couple’s daily life, published by Harper & Brothers in 1960. 6 & 7.) Cover and frontispiece from a painting by Jeff Donaldson from the second printing of Riot, Broadside Press, Detroit, 1970. 8 & 9.) Title page and poem from the first printing of Family Pictures, Broadside Press, 1971. 10.) Cover from the first printing of Aloneness, a children's picture book illustrated by Leroy Foster, Broadside Press, 1971.

View more Magnificent Women Monday posts.

--Emily, Special Collections Writing Intern

#Magnificent Women Monday #Gwendolyn Brooks #poetry #women poets #African American poets #African American women #Dudley Randall #Broadside Press #Roy Lewis #A Street in Bronzeville #The Bean Eaters #Shirley Smith #Jeff Donaldson #Riot #Family Pictures #Aloneness #Leroy Foster #Emily Birz

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POLITICO Playbook: The case for tuning out the White House

New Post has been published on https://thebiafrastar.com/politico-playbook-the-case-for-tuning-out-the-white-house/

POLITICO Playbook: The case for tuning out the White House

A FEW DATA POINTS TO PONDER WHEN CONSIDERING HOW MUCH TO PAY ATTENTION TO THE WHITE HOUSE …

— THE WSJreported a few days ago that the president was looking to buy Greenland. The White House brushed it aside, saying it was just idle chatter, and then PresidentDONALD TRUMPsaid: “It’s not No. 1 on the burner, I can tell you that.” The president also said bluntly: “We’re going to Poland and then we may be going to Denmark — not for this reason at all.”

THEN TUESDAY NIGHT,the president pulled out of a trip to Denmark, because the prime minister said Greenland wasn’t for sale.

— THE WASHINGTON POSTreported Monday evening that the White House was considering pushing for a payroll tax cut to juice the economy. Shortly after that, the White House said to ignore the chatter, because there were many ideas floating around, and this was no more serious than any of the other proposals bouncing around the building. Then the president said this Tuesday: “Payroll taxes — I’ve been thinking about payroll taxes for a long time.”

— THE PRESIDENTsaid for a week or two that he was serious about bucking his party and pushing Congress to create a new background-check system for gun purchases. He said he was going to listen to both Republicans and Democrats and get something done in the wake of the tragedies in Dayton and El Paso. Then on Tuesday, he called the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre and told him he would not be pushing for new background checks, The Atlantic’s Elaina Plott reported.

IF THE PRESIDENT MAKES A PROCLAMATIONand then reverses, what is the use of the proclamation in the first place?

WE DID A ROUND OF PHONE CALLSTuesday to people in Hill leadership and at the White House to find out how seriously we should be taking the payroll tax idea. The answers ranged from “not seriously” to “no one has any information on it.”

— CONSIDER THIS: BARACK OBAMAsigned a payroll tax holiday into law in early 2012 after a frantic December trying to squeeze it through a divided Congress. What hasTRUMPpassed through this divided Congress — the one that’s on the brink of impeaching him — that gives you the inclination he could get this through?

Good Wednesday morning. SPOTTED:Paul Ryan on a delayed flight from DCA to Chicago.Pic

THE PRESIDENT’S FOREIGN POLICY …

— WAPO: “Trump postpones Denmark trip after prime minister declines to sell him Greenland,”by Felicia Sonmez, Anne Gearan and Damian Paletta: “People familiar with the president’s interest in Greenland said he had been talking about the potential purchase for weeks.

“Senior administration officials had discussed the possibility of offering Denmarka deal in which the United States would take over its annual $600 million subsidy to Greenland in perpetuity, said two people familiar with the talks who were not authorized to reveal the internal deliberations. They also discussed giving Denmark a large one-time payment as well to incentivize the transfer, the people said.” WaPo

— CNN’s @kylieatwood:“Trump & Macron spoke over the phone today & agreed they wanted to invite Russia to the G7 next year, a sr admin official said. Trump is expected to broach the topic w/ world leaders at the G7. Today Trump told reporters it would be ‘appropriate’ for Russia to re-enter G7.”

— THEY’RE BACK! … WAPO’S PAMELA CONSTABLEin Kabul andKAREN DEYOUNG:“The U.S. is nearing a deal with the Taliban. But another major threat looms in Afghanistan: The Islamic State”:“The official government line here is that the Islamic State has been defeated.

“The local branch of the extremist Sunni militia,Afghan officials say, has been corralled into a mountainous area near the Pakistani border by Afghan and U.S. forces and can no longer control populated areas. They say it has been reduced to staging suicide attacks against ‘soft’ targets, like the wedding party bombing here on Saturday that killed 63 people and wounded 190. …

“But local leaders in the border provinces of Nangahar and Konartell a different story. They say Islamic State forces continue to terrorize villagers in areas under their control, forcibly recruiting boys and banning girls from school. They and U.S. officials say that Taliban and Islamic State forces have continued to fight each other, but that they also fear that some Taliban fighters will join the more ruthless Islamic State forces if Taliban leaders make a deal with U.S. officials.” WaPo

READING FOR JARED AND GREENBLATT … NYT’S TOM FRIEDMAN: “How the Palestinian-Israeli Peace Process Became a Farce”:“Last week’s ugly mess involving the abortive visit to Israel of two Democratic congresswomen was useful for only one reason: It exposed how much the Palestinian-Israeli peace process has become a pathetic festival of magical thinking, performance art, reality denial, political fund-raising and outright political fraud. It’s become about everything except what it needs to succeed: courageous, fair-minded, creative diplomacy and leadership.

“At the official U.S. level, Jared Kushner has spent three yearsginning up a peace plan that he still won’t show anyone. So far, his only achievement is an Israeli-Palestinian economic conference in Bahrain that no Israeli or Palestinian officials attended.

“Kushner actually seems to believe that the problemcan be solved by the Israelis and Gulf Arabs funding a leveraged buyout of Palestinian aspirations for sovereignty and statehood. Kushner deserves some credit for fresh thinking about how to attract investment to the West Bank, but he lapsed into magical thinking when he allowed all the diplomatic features of his plan to be dictated by the political needs and desires of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.” NYT

— AP’S JONATHAN LEMIREandDARLENE SUPERVILLE: “Trump: Any Jew voting Democratic is uninformed or disloyal”:“Showing a fresh willingness to play politics along religious lines, President Donald Trump said Tuesday that American Jewish people who vote for Democrats show ‘either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.’

“Trump’s claim triggered a quick uproar from criticswho said the president was trading in anti-Semitic stereotypes. It came amid his ongoing feud with Democratic congresswomen Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, both Muslim.

“Trump has closely aligned himself with Israel,including its conservative prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while the Muslim lawmakers have been outspoken critics of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians. Tlaib is a U.S.-born Palestinian American, while Omar was born in Somalia.

“‘Where has the Democratic Party gone? Where have they gonewhere they are defending these two people over the state of Israel?’ Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. ‘I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat, I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.’” AP

NEEDLESS TO SAY:Jews — like everyone else in America — are not subservient to an ideology, political party or person.

WHAT DINA POWELL’S UP TO … FT: “Goldman Sachs claws its way into contention for Saudi Aramco IPO,”by Anjli Raval and Andrew England in London, James Fontanella-Khan in New York and Simeon Kerr in Dubai: “Goldman Sachs has clawed its way into contention for a role in Saudi Aramco’s planned stock market listing, after a months-long charm offensive by top executives, including former Trump administration official Dina Powell, said several people briefed on the matter.

“Ms Powell, who left Goldman in 2017 to work at the White Houseand came back to the Wall Street bank a year later, has leveraged her knowledge of the region and relationships with the kingdom’s highest authorities to seek business for Goldman, said one person close to the Saudi state energy giant.” FT

HEADS UP … NYT’S MIRIAM JORDAN:“As early as Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security is expected to issue a sweeping new set of regulations for detaining migrant children, replacing more than two decades of protections that were put into place as a result of what happened to Alma and her fellow detainees in 1985. The new standards could allow the government to detain children and families for longer periods, revise the minimum standards of care and end the 22-year-old consent decree, known as the Flores agreement, that has protected the nation’s youngest and most vulnerable new arrivals.” NYT

SCOOP … NANCY COOK: “Trump team braces GOP donors for a potential ‘moderate and short’ recession”:“At a fundraising luncheon this week in Jackson, Wyo., headlined by both Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney acknowledged the risks to the GOP elite behind closed doors. If the U.S. were to face a recession, it would be ‘moderate and short,’ Mulvaney told roughly 50 donors, according to an attendee.” POLITICO

2020 WATCH …

— CHICAGO TRIBUNE: “Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg’s overwhelmingly white crowd at event on Chicago’s South Side reinforces his struggles to draw support from black voters,”by Bill Ruthhart: “South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg held a self-described grassroots campaign rally in Bronzeville on Tuesday night, but the overwhelmingly white audience he drew to the event in a historic black neighborhood reinforced the difficulty the Democratic presidential hopeful has had in connecting with African American voters.

“Buttigieg did not acknowledge the makeup of the audiencein his remarks or in answering questions from the 1,000 people at the sold-out event, but did touch on it briefly as he closed the hourlong rally with a plea for his supporters. ‘Find the people who don’t look like most of you in this room and let them know they have the chance, not just to support this campaign, but to shape it,’ Buttigieg said.” Chicago Tribune

BIG CASH ALERT(big July donations):RNC:Sheldon and Miriam Adelson gave $142,000 each. …NRCC:Sheldon and Miriam Adelson gave $142,000. …NRSC:August A. Busch gave $110,000.

TOP-EDS …

— REP. LIZ CHENEY (R-WYO.)in theWAPO: “How to lose a war, but not end it”:“President Trump knows a bad deal when he sees one. He extricated the United States from President Barack Obama’s disastrous nuclear accord with Iran. He pulled us out of an arms-control agreement with Russia that Vladimir Putin repeatedly violated. But if news reports are accurate, the State Department is about to capitulate to the Taliban, al-Qaeda’s longtime ally, as U.S. forces are withdrawn from Afghanistan. The president should reject this deal.”

— MITCH MCCONNELLin theWSJ: “We Stand With Hong Kong”

DANIEL LIPPMAN: “Inside Trump’s feud with Anthony Scaramucci”

— BTW … WHAT HAPPENED TO JOHNNY MAC? … PER DANIEL:Earlier this summer, Scaramucci let Trump’s former body man, John McEntee, use his office for six weeks. “He is creating a lifestyle app and he just needed to have a place to hang his hat for a little while,” Scaramucci explained.

— BACKSTORY:After McEntee left the White House in March 2018 over concerns about his gambling habits, he was named “senior adviser for operations” on the Trump campaign. But he quietly left late last year, according to a former White House official. (Although he’s friends with Scaramucci, McEntee is “by no means is a Mooch sympathizer” in Scaramucci’s current feud with Trump, this person said.)

THE JUICE …

— NEW GEORGETOWN INSTITUTE OF POLITICS AND PUBLIC SERVICE FELLOWS: Jonathan Burks,Paul Ryan’s former chief of staff … former Kansas Gov.Jeff Colyer…Olivia Alair Dalton,SVP of communications and marketing for the Human Rights Campaign …Karen Travers,ABC White House correspondent …Stephanie Valencia,co-founder of EquisLabs.

THE PRESIDENT’S WEDNESDAY: TRUMPwill leave the White House at 11:15 a.m. for Andrews, where he will fly to Louisville. He will arrive in Kentucky at 1:25 p.m. and go straight to the Galt House Hotel. At 2 p.m., the president will speak to the AMVETS 75th annual convention. At 3:05 p.m., he will leave the hotel for the Seelbach Hilton Louisville and will participate in a roundtable at 3:15 p.m., and speak at a fundraiser at 4:15 p.m. At 5:25 p.m., he will fly back to Washington. He’s due back at the White House at 7:10 p.m.

JULIA IOFFEinGQ: “The Summer of Warren”

MORE 2020 … “Outside money flows into race for Susan Collins’ Senate seat,”by AP’s David Sharp and Brian Slodysko: “Money is pouring into Maine’s high-profile Senate race, threatening to upend the state’s reputation for genteel politics and giving way to a new era of partisanship. … Advertising data shows Democrats plan to spend at least $1.2 million on ads through December, including a spot that aired for the first time this month that accuses Collins of failing to protect Medicare. A newly formed GOP group, meanwhile, has $800,000 already in the bank, thanks to a small group of wealthy financiers.” AP

EPSTEIN LATEST — “Jeffrey Epstein lawsuits offer sordid details, including sex while on work release,”by the Miami Herald’s David Ovalle: “While serving a lenient jail sentence in Palm Beach County, wealthy financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was allowed to leave jail for ‘work release’ — at an office at his own organization, the Florida Science Foundation.

“But at the foundation, according to a newly filed lawsuit,Epstein and his web of associates repeatedly arranged for sex with at least two girls, including one he met when she was 17.”

— BOSTON GLOBE: “At MIT, more fallout from the university’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein”:“A well-known member of the MIT Media Lab plans to resign over revelations that the research center and its top leader took money from Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased financier who was accused of trafficking in underage girls.

“Ethan Zuckerman, director of the lab’s Center for Civic Media,last week told officials at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology of his plans.” Boston Globe …Zuckerman’s Medium post

MEDIAWATCH — “Tucker Carlson’s Fox News Show Loses More Advertisers,”by NYT’s Tiffany Hsu: “The Monday episode of ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight,’ the host’s first since he left the airwaves for what Fox News said was a planned vacation two days after making the remarks on white supremacy, had fewer commercials than usual.

“There were spots for turmeric drink mixes, ear wash systems and cup-holder mountsfor smartphones, as well as ads for Dyson, Raymour & Flanigan and USAA, but none for products from SoFi, Calm or SteinMart. Those companies advertised on the program earlier this summer but said in statements in recent days that their commercials would not appear during Mr. Carlson’s nightly hour.

“A Monday night episode from one year ago,the broadcast of ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ on Aug. 20, 2018, had 16 minutes of ads, with 38 commercials that aired across the nation, according to iSpot.tv, the television ads measurement company. The Monday night episode this week, by contrast, had 13.5 minutes of commercials, with 23 nationally aired spots. Eight of the 23 were promotions for other Fox properties.” NYT

— CNN: “Playboy columnist sues Trump White House over press pass suspension”

— Alexandra Robertsis now communications director for news programming at MSNBC.

Send tips to Eli Okun and Garrett Ross at [email protected].

TRANSITIONS — Shawn Gaylordis now executive director of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus. He previously worked in LGBT advocacy at the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network and Human Rights First. …Tim Doyleis joining GuidePost Strategies as principal and general counsel. He was previously at the American Council for Capital Formation.

WEEKEND WEDDING — Sam Jammal,regulatory affairs director and counsel at Firefly, andJennifer Molina,press secretary for California A.G. Xavier Becerra and a Hillary 2016 and CAP alum, got married Saturday in Cartagena, Colombia. They met at a White House Correspondents’ Association reception and then reconnected at a friend’s barbecue before they started dating.Pic…Another pic

WELCOME TO THE WORLD — Matthew Borowski,an information graphics producer in the Fox News research department, andMelanie Borowski,a teacher, welcomed Lola Pearl Borowski, who came in at 5 lbs, 13 ounces. She joins big sisters Saige and Drew.Pic…Another pic

BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Manuel Roig-Franzia,WaPo feature reporter.How he’s celebrating:“I’ll be celebrating my birthday with the love of my life, Ceci Connolly, my parents, my beloved 98-year-old grandfather and an enormous mountain of shellfish at the beach in Spain, just outside the city of Huelva, where I was born.”Playbook Plus Q&A

BIRTHDAYS:Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) is 63 … Steve Case, chairman of Revolution and the Case Foundation and co-founder of AOL, is 61 … Ken Mehlman, member and global head of public affairs at KKR and co-head of KKR Global Impact … Peter Hamby, host of Snapchat’s “Good Luck America” and a Vanity Fair contributor … NBC News correspondent Harry Smith is 68 … Arkansas Lt. Gov. Tim Griffin is 51 … Greg Bell … Ben Howard, deputy assistant to the president for legislative affairs (h/t dad Jack) … POLITICO’s David Beavers and Ian Jenkins … Vianovo’s Mike Shannon is 45 … Margaret Chan, former director-general of the WHO, is 72 … Elizabeth Stoltz … Brian Parks of Locust Street Group … Puja Murgai … Joe Minges … Hunter Lipscomb … Katie Brown … The Atlantic’s Elaine Godfrey … Rubén Olmos,president of Global Nexus LLC … Cheyne Worley … Mary Ann Naylor …

… Jana Winter,2018-2019 Boston Globe Spotlight fellow and Yahoo contributor …Joan Kirchner Carr … Marguerite Biagi … Alisa Maso … Sarah Rusciano … Business Insider’s Pamela Engel … Reuben Jeffery III … Robert Wells … Stephen Neuman, managing director for government affairs at American Airlines … Joe Mathieu … CNN’s Cameron Hough … Lindsay Fisher, student at U.Va. law school and Citi alum … Heather Hunter … Tericka Lambert, digital strategist at Authentic Campaigns … David Heifetz, chief comms officer for New Politics … Francine McMahon … former California Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado is 52 … Paul Harstad … Larry Martin (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) … Lamont Black… Jack Kelly … Tom Houck … Adam Dubitsky … Rachel Hirschberg Light … Amelia Penniman, comms director for Senate campaigns at American Bridge … Katherine Perez … Bruce Evans

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18. Between These Walls

It’s June 2nd and I haven’t had sex this entire year. It’s semi-intentional, mostly in the sense that I haven’t gone out of my way to secure any. No dating apps on my phone, my online dating presence is nil. But now it’s getting warm and I feel my inner thot slowly taking over, On my commute to work I daydream about the last time I had my nipples caressed by someone else. And I think, wow. I could rub one out right now but I have to go look at Excel spreadsheets for 8 hours instead.

The last time I was this abstinent was my senior year of college and six months thereafter. It was awful. I’d I lived in a house of six other girls. They were all in serious relationships. Which meant there was always some dude over, toilet seats left up, and that unmistakable dull-but-repetitive thud of a bed shaking in place. That shit is the worst, CERTAINLY when it’s not coming from you. It didn’t help that I was a dark-skinned black girl on a white, white, white campus. Worse, the one boy I did want to fuck, desperately, was hung up on his ex. Unfortunately he never communicated those things to me, and I spent much of that year in weird emotional/sexual angst as I felt myself develop feelings for this boy - double yikes. Those were peak ugly feels, like all my housemates were these delicate goddesses and I was a bum who ate candy in bed while watching old Disney Channel movies on YouTube (remember Brink!? Erik von Detten, sk8r boi of my dreams). Lots of drunk nights turned sad as I tearfully wondered why no one in this stupid town wanted to play tongue hockey with me.

But that was then. This is now. And I most certainly do not have a self-esteem issue. I actually have no trouble admitting that I’m pretty cute. I have a nice butt and also legs I used to think of as toothpicks that I’ve since grown quite fond of. I’m smart. I could probably win some 90s WWF trivia. I’m funny. I can give you book recommendations. Sometimes the fact that I’m not accosted by admirers regularly actually befuddles me.

When you go so long without you start to think about the last person you were intimate with. Or at least I do. He was, objectively speaking, the best looking person I’ve ever been with. He had a semi-obscure biblical name that I found quite beautiful, almost as beautiful as his strong, veined hands and slow smile and over-six-foot frame. He wore Dashikis sometimes,was an unlicensed massage therapist and was attaining a Ph. D in black dude studies (I mean, basically). Oh, and did I mention he was a dad? To three children under the age of 10?

Our first date we talked about predominantly white institutions and he gave me some pool pointers. When I went home I patted myself on the back. Damn bitch look at you! He’s very educated! And funny! Sure, it’s odd he has children that were born the same time he claimed to be separated from their baby momma, but whatever! He’s still fine! And offered to smoke you out! And FINE, like Jesus Christ!

In the very beginning it was fun. I could humor his studies in “African thought” and tried to think very little about his children, since being a stepmom was nowhere in my near future. There were small things that bugged me about him, like his need to constantly teach me shit. His insistence on always being right. The way he could just being a cornball sometimes. But I overlooked it because a) I wasn’t marrying this man and b) never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would snatch someone that attractive. I know I said I’m cute but he’s like, beyond cute. Plus he knew what the HELL he was doing with his hands and all the other body parts that are involved with sex, so I decided I could deal if he would just shut up once in awhile.

The last time we saw each other was a an unfortunate dealbreaker. As usual, he picked me up from the train station. As I was getting into his car (total dadmobile - a cherry stationwagon with coloring pages and crayons scattered in the back seats) he said without smiling, “hurry up, you’ll let the cold in.”

Then he proceeded to argue with me about some made up statistic re: the amount of people who’ve been published vs. the amount of people with Bachelor’s degrees in the world. As I made my points, his token response was “Why are you fighting me on this?” I wanted to sock this beautiful man in his beautiful jaw. I told myself to chill out, that at least I’d get some good cuddles out of the evening.

Turned out he had mounds of work to do. Between classes and massaging people and other side gigs - not to mention being a co-parent - he had a lot on his plate that night. I was OK with this, since I’d brought my notebook and planned on getting some writing done. He went on about a script he had to edit and the time he got fired for refusing to take a drug test BUT THOSE PEOPLE MADE A MISTAKE firing him, obviously, blah blah blah. The whole night’s banter was intense, only alleviated briefly when he offered me his cold leftovers of Indian food. We got on the subject of the weather, where he once again tried to prove I didn’t know what I was talking about. There were no cold days left this winter, and he was pulling up the receipts to prove it.

I grew hot as he continued to pull up past forecasts from weather.com, even after I had somewhat conceded that while he could be right, another single-digit day wasn’t completely out of the question. There he went with that same token response. This it time it was “No no, you’re not listening to me.” What was wrong with this asshole, and why didn’t I notice sooner? Probably because I was too busy thinking about what was in his pants and the quickest way it would get in me. I went to his bathroom after and looked at myself in the mirror solemnly. You should’ve stayed your ass back home. Now I was stuck in Bronzeville at midnight with this insufferable person.

I came back to his room and told him I was going to bed. He took my hand and pulled me to him.

“What are you doing?”

“Giving you a hug.” We embraced tightly. The warmth of his body permeated through me as my own body began to heat up. I couldn’t deny that our sexual chemistry was intense. Our hugging became more involved and hands - his, mostly - began to wander. He took my shirt off. Then out of nowhere he pulled his whole penis out.

I looked down at it. Doing anything to his junk would require considerable effort on my part, since his endowments went beyond a handsome face and toned body. Also I’m like a car in the dead of winter: you gotta warm me up. So I announced that I was going to lay in his bed.

An open invitation. All I had on was black underwear. I feigned sleep and then fell asleep for real, only to wake up 30 minutes later to find the guy still working on script editing. Plus he hummed loudly to every song that played on his Pandora station - ughhh! Eventually he got into bed, fully clothed, and I got a loose arm around my waist as he fell asleep instantly. So I came all the way to the south side for mansplaining and a half-assed cuddle.

Not the last time I had sex, but it was the last time i came close. Almost doesn’t count though (thanks, Brandy). While my libido is making itself more known I figure I have a couple options - chalk it up to ovulation and ride it out, get on my dating app game, or wait for a man to fall out of the sky. That last option seems least likely; too bad modern dating is for the birds. Oh well. Now’s as good a time as any to pick up a pink razor and start smoothing things out down there.

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2018-03-19 18 NEWS now

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Associated Press

4 people injured after 2 trains collide, derail in Kentucky

What to expect from Putin and a resurgent Russia

Another explosion injures 2 in Texas capital; cause unclear

Syria monitors: Turkish-allied militiamen looting in Afrin

Trump jabs Mueller, but White House says firing not in works

BBC News

Indian man's fight to save whale sharks

John McEnroe paid more than Martina Navratilova by BBC

Meet CabiFly Brazil's newest taxi service

Ghanaian animal imitator has Guinness World Record ambitions

US Army St Patrick's Day video splits opinion

Chicago Tribune

Man, 81, missing from Bronzeville

2 robberies reported in Lincoln Park area

Police investigating armed robberies in Near North Side area

2 killed, 2 injured in Sunday shootings

Longtime pastor removed from St. John Cantius Catholic Parish amid investigation

LA Times

4 people injured after 2 trains collide, derail in Kentucky

California's free-for-all primary election rules could surprise everyone in 2018 ... again

Villaraigosa and his campaigns have benefited from groups that critics say prey upon the poor, people of color

Clippers fall two games from playoff spot when Trail Blazers earn 13th win in a row

In defiance of Trump, California became 'sanctuary state.' This Orange County city may want out

NPR News

Trump Cabinet Turnover Sets Record Going Back 100 Years

Are There Risks From Secondhand Marijuana Smoke? Early Science Says Yes

Cirque Du Soleil Performer Falls To His Death During Show In Florida

Vladimir Putin Easily Wins New 6-Year Term As Russian President

Facebook: Firm Working With Trump Campaign Stole 50 Million Users' Data

New York Times

Boko Haram’s Seizure of 110 Girls Taunts Nigeria, and Its Leader

Austria’s Far Right Wants the Freedom to Smoke

Editorial: Investigate Killings in the Philippines

4 Easy Ways to Cut Down Your Sugar Intake

Nancy Pelosi Wants to Lead. House Democratic Candidates Aren’t So Sure.

ProPublica

Jacksonville Sheriff Admits Race May Have Played a Role in Ticket Writing

The FBI — ‘Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity’ — Still Working on Diversity

Getting to Know Illinois — And You

Correction: Trump’s Pick to Head CIA Did Not Oversee Waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah

Flawed Assessments Caused $2 Billion Shift in Property Taxes, Study Finds

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Two explosions reported in southwest Austin

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Martin Shkreli bragged about having "no overt psychological issues," newly released court records show. However, an in-jail examination revealed myriad mental helth issues, including "anxiety, narcissism, and delusions."

Reuters

EU convenes urgent Brexit meeting amid deal talk: sources

China forms new economic team as President Xi kicks off second term

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The Hate Report: How white supremacists recruit online

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The Altantic

West Virginia's Teachers Are Not Satisfied

This Average Joe Is the Most Quoted Man in News

The Unsinkable Benjamin Netanyahu?

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The Guardian

My advice after a year without tech: rewild yourself | Mark Boyle

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40 Books to Celebrate National Poetry Month

The forty books listed offer a range of diverse topics from Phillis Wheatley’s ruminations on various subjects to Mahogany L. Browne’s Black Girl Magic—from laughing feet to family love—Harlem to hair. April is National Poetry Month, and there’s something here for personal, classroom, and community enjoyment or inspiration. Poetry Month is “the largest literary celebration in the world,” so go here for ideas on how to celebrate all month long and here for more poetry selections from Nikki Grimes, Marilyn Nelson, Kwame Alexander, and other poets. Happy Poetry Month!

My People - Langston Hughes, Illustrator - Charles R. Smith Jr.

I Am Loved - Nikki Giovanni, Illustrator - Ashley Bryan

My Feet Are Laughing - Lissette Norman, Illustrator - Frank Morrison

Young Cornrows Callin Out the Moon - Ruth Forman, Illustrated by Cbabi Bayoc

Bronzeville Boys and Girls - Gwendolyn Brooks, Illustrator - Faith Ringgold

Love to Langston - Tony Medina, Illustrator - R. Gregory Christie

Hey Black Child - Useni Eugene Perkins, Illustrator - Bryan Collier

Read and Rise - Sandra L. Pinkney, Illustrator - Myles Pinkney

I Am the Virgin Islands - Tiphanie Yanique

I Live in Music - Ntozake Shange, Illustrator - Romare Bearden

We Are Shining - Gwendolyn Brooks - Jan Spivey Gilchrist

In Your Hands - Carole Boston Weatherford, Illustrator - Brian Pinkney

That Is My Dream! - Langston Hughes, Illustrator - Daniel Miyares

Some Kind of Love: A Family Reunion in Poems - Traci Dant Illustrator - Eric Velasquez

Life Doesn't Frighten Me - Maya Angelou, Illustrator - Jean-Michel Basquiat

Oh, Brother! - Nikki Grimes, Illustrator - Mike Benny

Sail Away - Langston Hughes, Illustrator - Ashley Bryan

Ostrich and Lark - Marilyn Nelson, Illustrators - San Artists of the Kuru Art Project in Botswana

Crowning Glory - Joyce Carol Thomas, Illustrator - Brenda Joysmith

Harlem - Walter Dean Myers, Illustrator - Christopher Myers

Poetry for Young People: Maya Angelou - Dr. Edwin Graves Wilson Ph.D., Illustrator - Jerome Lagarrigue

The Angels Lullaby - Joyce Carol Thomas, Illustrator - Pamela Johnson

Wonders: The Best Children’s Poems of Effie Lee Newsome - Rudine Sims Bishop (Compiler), Illustrator - Lois Mailou Jones

I See the Rhythm - Toyomi Igus, Illustrator - Michele Wood

Under the Moon & Over the Sea: A Collection of Caribbean Poems - James Berry & Grace Nichols

Daddy Calls Me Man - Angela Johnson, Illustrator - Rhonda Mitchell

Children of Long Ago - Lessie Jones Little, Illustrator - Jan Spivey Gilchrist

America, My New Home - Monica Gunning, Illustrator - Ken Condon

Soul Looks Back in Wonder - Tom Feelings (Editor) Illustrator - Tom Feelings

Words with Wings: A Treasury of African-American Poetry and Art - Belinda Rochelle https://amzn.to/2Gz4E5m

The Pioneers (Poetry from the Masters) - Wade Hudson

The Poems of Phillis Wheatley: With Letters and a Memoir - Phillis Wheatley

Carver: A Life in Poems - Marilyn Nelson

Poetry from the Masters: The Black Arts Movement - Eugene Useni Perkins

Remember the Bridge: Poems of a People - Carole Boston Weatherford

Martin Rising: Requiem for a King - Andrea Davis Pinkney, Illustrator - Brian Pinkney

How I Discovered Poetry - Marilyn Nelson, Illustrator - Hadley Hooper

One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance - Nikki Grimes, Illustrators - Various Artists

Out of Wonder - Kwame Alexander, Chris Colderley, & Marjory Wentworth, Illustrator - Ekua Holmes

Black Girl Magic - Mahogany L. Browne. Illustrator - Jess X. Snow

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24 Children’s Books To Read To Your Kids In Honor Of Black History Month

24 Children’s Books to Read to Your Kids in Honor of Black History Month. And year-round, of course.

By #TaylorPittman

February marks #BlackHistoryMonth , and story-time is just one of the many occasions when you can teach your kids about the accomplishments of black pioneers and trailblazers.

Children’s books are famously bad at embracing diversity. In 2016, the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that out of 3,400 kids’ books, fewer than one-quarter of them featured a main character who was black, Asian, Latino or Native American. So it’s vital that parents share the books that are available with their kids.

Luckily, there are many helpful resources putting these titles within close reach. For Black History Month, Lee & Low Books, a multicultural children’s book publisher, offers helpful book recommendations. Every day in February, The Brown Bookshelf highlights a different black author or illustrator and their work. Helping Kids Rise also participates in a #ReadingBlackout (an initiative to read books by black authors) at the encouragement of YouTuber Denise Cooper.

With suggestions from the organizations above, plus some others, we put together a list of kids’ books by black authors, about black figures or focused on black culture.

Here are 24 books to read to your child during Black History Month, and year-round, of course.

#1 “Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas”

#TinyStitches highlights the accomplishments of #VivienThomas, an often-forgotten pioneer in the world of surgical technology. (By #GwendolynHooks , illustrated By #ColinBootman )

#2 “Look What Brown Can Do!”

Called a “modern black history book,” #LookWhatBrownCanDo teaches readers about inspiring contributions to black history and encourages kids to dream big. (By #TMarieHarris , illustrated By #NedaIvanova)

#3 “Baby Flo: Florence Mills Lights Up the Stage”

#BabyFlo tells the story of #TheHarlemRenaissance figure #FlorenceMills , who was known for her talents in singing, dancing and comedy. (By #AlanSchroeder , illustrated By #CorneliusVanWright and #YingHwaHu )

#4 “I Have A Dream”

#IHaveaDream offers an illustrated version of Dr. #MartinLutherKingJr .’s inspiring speech about the importance of equality. (By #DrMartinLutherKingJr ., illustrated By #KadirNelson )

#5 “Coretta Scott”

#KadirNelson also illustrated this book about #CorettaScottKing , the civil rights activist and leader who married Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (By #NtozakeShange , illustrated by Kadir Nelson)

#6 “Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race”

You’ve probably seen the movie, #HiddenFigures starring #TarajiPHenson , #OctaviaSpencer , #JanelleMonae , #KevinCostner , #KirstenDunst , #AldisHodge , #MahershalaAli& #JimParsons , but you can also use reading time to introduce the black women whose hard work and perseverance advanced the space race. (By #MargotLeeShetterly with #WinifredConkling and illustrated by #LauraFreeman )

#7 “Bippity Bop Barbershop”

#BippityBopBarbershop highlights the role barbershops play in black culture, and what it’s like to conquer your fears as a child. (By #NatashaAnastasiaTarpley and illustrated by #EBLewis )

#8 “Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History”

#LittleLeaders includes a variety of stories about black women who never backed down in the face of adversity. (By #VashtiHarrison )

#9 “The Story of Ruby Bridges“

This book tells the story of #RubyBridges , who became the first African-American child to integrate a white southern elementary school. (By #RobertColes and illustrated by #GeorgeFord )

#10 “I, Too, Am America”

Bryan Collier presents an illustrated version of Langston Hughes’ famous poem “ #ITooAmAmerica ” (By #LangstonHughes and illustrated by #BryanCollier )

#11 “Mae Among the Stars”

#MaeJemison was the first African-American woman in space, and this book shares her dreams as a child, her hard work and ultimately, her success in and out of space. (By #RodaAhmed and illustrated by #StasiaBurrington )

#12 “Rosa”

With this book, kids can learn about #RosaParks ‘ bravery and resilience as she refused to give up her bus seat in Alabama, playing an important role in the civil rights movement. (By #NikkiGiovanni and illustrated by #BryanCollier )

#13 “Last Stop on Market Street”

#LastStopOnMarketStreet highlights the relationship between a child and his grandmother, who shows him what he’s overlooking in their day-to-day life. (By #MattdelaPena and illustrated By #ChristianRobinson )

#14 “Juneteenth for Mazie”

In #JuneteenthforMazie , kids can accompany the titular character #Mazie as she celebrates Juneteenth, the day in 1865 that marked the end of slavery in the United States, even though #PresidentAbrahamLincoln had passed the Emancipation Proclamation two years earlier. (By #FloydCooper )

#15 “Princess Hair”

#PrincessHair encourages black girls to embrace their hair in all it’s many forms. (By #ShareeMiller )

#16 “Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman”

#Minty tells a fictionalized version of the backstory of #HarrietTubman , a significant figure in black history who led enslaved people to #freedom on the #UndergroundRailroad. (By #AlanSchroeder and illustrated By #JerryPinkney )

#17 “Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X”

#MalcolmX ‘s daughter #IlyasahShabazz offers a look into her father’s story and how he became a prominent figure in the fight for civil rights. (By #IlyasahShabazz and illustrated By #AGFord ) #MalcolmLittle

#18 “Ellington Was Not a Street”

Poet #NtozakeShange tells the stories of her community and how it’s members, despite the obstacles in their way, persevered. (By #NtozakeShange and illustrated By #KadirNelson )

#19 “Ron’s Big Mission”

#RonsBigMission shares the accomplishments of #RonaldMcNair , an American physicist and #NASA astronaut who died during the #SpaceShuttleChallenger launch, and the lesser-known story of how he helped integrate a library as a kid. (By #RoseBlue and #CorinneNaden and illustrated By #DonTate )

#20 “Bronzeville Boys and Girls”

Kids can learn the importance of community by reading Gwendolyn Brooks’ poems about Chicago’s #Bronzeville section. (By #GwendolynBrooks and illustrated By #FaithRinggold )

#21 “Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt”

This 1995 classic is a fictional story of a seamstress who helps fellow enslaved people find freedom on the #UndergroundRailroad using a quilt. (By #DeborahHopkinson and illustrated By #JamesRansome )

#22 “The Snowy Day”

#TheSnowyDay was one of the first children’s books to focus on a non-caricatured African-American character. It remains a favorite for both parents and kids. (By #EzraJackKeats )

#23 “The Nutcracker in Harlem”

#TheNutcrackerInHarlem book is a twist on the classic holiday tale, set during the #HarlemRenaissance . (By #TEMcMorrow and illustrated By #JamesRansome )

#24 “Yesterday I Had The Blues”

#YesterdayIHadTheBlues offers insight for kids about openly discussing their emotions and the colors associated with them. (By #JeronAshfordFrame and illustrated By #RGregoryChristie )

Source: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-history-month-books_us_5a79a9a8e4b018ad89502122

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