#Charlott Hawkins Brown

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Charlotte Hawkins Brown by Allison Adams

"Let us take time then, therefore, to be gracious, to be thoughtful, to be kind...with greater velocity on the upward road to equal opportunity and justice for all."

Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown (1883-1961) was a teacher and the founder of Palmer Memorial Institute, a trailblazing Southern prep school for African-American students.

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Being Weird Is Cool

(SingleDad!Eddie Munson x SingleMom!Reader)

Summary: You and your son are new to Hawkins and meet Eddie and his daughter at the park. WK: 1.7K

Warnings: None really, this is just a fluffy sweet little self indulgent meet cute. Eddie and Reader are in their mid 20s and their kids are around 5 going into Kindergarten. Modern AU. Reader is implied to be alternative but it doesn’t have to be read that way.🩵 But as always, my blog is still 18+

A/N: So this is just a cute little blurb that came to me. I always see single dad Eddie but I hardly ever see single mom reader so I thought this would be cuteee. My son has a speech condition and I never see kids with special needs in fics so this is just something small n cute n close to my heart. Maybe I’ll turn it into a series of blurbs about these four, we will see. If anyone has any ideas/requests for these four I’d totally be open to writing them. 🤭🖤Part 2 - My Masterlist - Series Masterlist

“Excuse me, is that your child?”

You looked up from your phone, hearing the voice of an irritated sounding woman, ready to defend your son at a moment's notice. But when you looked up she wasn’t talking to you, she was standing in front of the man who was sitting on the bench next to yours. A scowl on her face, her hands on her hips, and a pudgy little boy with tears in his eyes and chocolate smudged all over him by her side. She tilted her head towards the little girl across the playground that had been playing with your son since you got here. She was very clearly this man’s daughter by the way the unruly brown curls on their heads matched. She was sitting on the ground next to your son with her hand on his shoulder, seemingly comforting him.

“Yeah, she’s mine. What’s up?” The man sounded annoyed, rightfully so.

“Well, she just made my son cry.” The woman scoffed.

He raised an eyebrow at her, looking at your kids then back at her.

“What happened?”

“Apparently she yelled in his face and pushed him over, you really need to teach your daughter how to behave.” The woman’s dirty blonde ponytail that was so tight it looked like it was going to make her eyes bulge he out of her head waved from side to side as she spoke.

“Charlotte! Can you come over here please?” The man called to his daughter, waving her over.

You watched as she stood, dusting wood chips off her black white colored dress before reaching her hand out to your son. She pulled him behind her as she walked over with a determined look on her face.

“Daddy! That little boy was mean to my friend! He told him he was weird and was mocking fun of his voice!” She stomped a little black booted foot and pointed her finger towards the boy in question.

“Charlotte… honey, did you push him over?” He asked her as he stood to his feet, crouching down so he was eye level with her.

At this point you had fully turned your body in their direction, ready to intervene.

“Oli, are you okay baby?” You asked him gently.

“Mommy!!!” He ran over to you and wrapped his arms around your legs, burying his face into your knees.

“What happened honey?” You ran your fingers through his hair and he buried his face further into you. You look over at the man beside you, who looks at you apologetically before turning back to his daughter.

“Char… did you push that boy over there?”

“Yes! But-“

“Hey, no buts, okay? We don’t push people no matter what they do, it's not okay to push.” He told her and he gently rested a large ringed hand on her little shoulder.

“Okay daddy…” she looked down at her little feet with her hands behind her back, bashful.

“Now, do you want to tell me what happened? Calmly.” He titled his head so she was looking him in the eyes again and she pouted. “Come on baby, we can’t fix it if we don’t know.”

“Her PUSHED me! I was just trying play with them and she yelled and pushed!” The little boy spoke up, pointing at her from behind his moms legs.

“No! No! Mean!” Your son, Oliver, who was normally very soft spoken and shy raised his head from your knees to yell at the other boy.

“Okay whoa whoa whoa, let’s everybody calm down.” You looked down at Oli and smiled, rubbing soft circles on his back to try and keep him calm.

“Hey sweetie, your name is Charlotte, right?” You asked her.

“Mhm” She stuck her bottom lip out and nodded.

“Can you tell us what happened please?”

“Yes! That kid!” She pointed and glared at the chocolate covered boy “was being mean to MY new friend! He was mocking fun of his voice and calling him weird! But that’s just not nice!”

It didn’t take you long to figure out what she meant, Oliver was a late talker and very shy. He didn’t talk much and when he did it was only to people he was comfortable with. This wasn’t the first and probably wouldn’t be the last time this happened. Most parents didn’t take the time to teach their kids that everyone is different so you’ve had to take it upon yourself to explain it to them on more than one occasion.

“So that other little boy was being mean to Oli about his voice and you stood up for him, right?”

“Yes! I didn’t want him to play with us and he wouldn’t go away and kept mocking fun of him! so I told him my dad said being weird is cool and I MADE him go away!” She was still stomping her little foot and pointing her little finger at the kid and you had to hold in a laugh at how cute she was.

“Well thank you for standing up for him honey, that’s very sweet of you. But I don’t think your daddy wants you to push people even if they’re mean, right?” You look over to her dad and make eye contact, silently asking for backup.

“Yeah baby, it’s very nice of you to stand up for your friend but I want you to apologize to that little boy for pushing him over, okay?” He put his hand on her back and tilted his head toward the boy and his mother.

“Well is him gonna say sorry? To my friend?” She narrowed her eyes at her father and looked between him and the other child.

“He has nothing to say sorry for! You pushed him! And maybe his mother needs to teach him how to communicate better!” She definitely should not have fucking said that.

“Fucking excuse me???” You stood up and walked past Oliver and straight up to the woman’s pinched face. “We were trying to do the right thing and teach our kids that hitting is never okay but if you want to play it like that?? Okay. How about you teach your son how to treat people? That everyone’s different and it’s not okay to just talk down to people because you don’t understand them? How about you wipe his fucking face and get the fuck out of mine before I show them that maybe hitting isn’t so bad after all.” You practically growled, your eyes boring into hers.

“You people are fucking insane, who let people like you even have children??” She gasped before turning on her heel and leaving the park, dragging her son behind her.

“Fucking bitch.” You scoffed, turning to Oliver and crouching down in front of him. “You okay baby?”

“Yeah mama, okay.” He smiled at you and gave you a thumbs up.

“That was fucking awesome.” The man next to you chuckled and slapped his thigh. “Her face!! She couldn’t even believe you were talking to her like that!!” He laughed.

You looked over at him and smiled, this was the first time you were really looking at him and wow. He was beautiful. You had already noticed his hair but now that you’re looking directly at him you can see his pretty brown eyes, and plush pink lips. When he smiles you see two cute little dimples appear on each side of his mouth and he’s dressed really cute too. Ripped jeans, old band tee, beat up sneakers and a leather jacket. Damn.

“I promise you that is not the first time I’ve dealt with a woman like that and I’m positive it will not be the last.” You chuckled.

“Well you handled it like a goddess, if I was a woman I might’ve punched her.”

“Well I absolutely wanted to.” You both started busting up laughing.

“I’m Eddie, by the way, and you already met Charlotte.” He smiled at you and extended his hand, you took it and told him your name in return.

“And this is Oliver, who you already kinda sorta not really met.” You gestured to your son and Charlotte came bounding over.

“Oli! You want play with me still?” She smiled big at him.

“Yep! Mhm!” He clapped.

“Gotta catch meeeee then!!!!” She ran off towards the playground and he went chasing after her.

“You’re a good dad, not a lot of kids take the time to understand that other kids are different, just because they aren’t taught that at home. You clearly teach her well.” You said with a smile.

“Yeah, I try to teach her that everyone’s different. I mean look at me, it’s not like I had the easiest time growing up, or even now other parents judge me and look down on me for being a single dad and well, just being me. I never want her to feel like that.” He watched his daughter run after your son with a fond smile.

“Yeah” You looked down at your own ripped jean shorts and tights and smiled. “Yeah, I think I get that.”

“Are you guys new in town? I haven’t seen you around and I think I’ve seen everyone in this town at least once”

“Oh, yeah, me and him just moved here last week so we don’t really know anyone yet. I’m hoping once the kids start school next month he will have a bit of an easier time making friends.” You sighed. “He’s just really shy, he has a hard time talking and he gets really nervous.”

“Well, it looks like he already has one friend.” He smiled at you and pointed towards the playground where Oli was pushing Charlotte on the swing.

“Looks like it.” You looked over at Eddie and smiled.

“And that goes for you too, you know? You have one friend now too, if you want.” He smiled at you hopefully, those cute dimples showing.

“Yeah? I think I’d like that.” You felt your face warm when you smiled back at him.

“We were going to get ice cream after this, do you guys want to come? It’s just down the street we usually walk from here.”

“That actually sounds really nice Eddie, thank you.”

“KIDS!!! Ice cream!!?!!” He yelled the magic words and huge grins spread across both their faces as they came running full speed towards you.

Maybe Hawkins wouldn’t be so bad.

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At long last, here is the official reading list for There'll Be Some Changes Made, and a few recommendations from some of the readers! It's long, so hopefully there's a little something for everyone.

Thank you again to the wonderful readers, both for your encouragement, and for helping me compile this list <3

Recommendations (Named Throughout TBSCM)

The Pearl - John Steinbeck The House in the Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune The Great Alone - Kristin Hannah The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde Upon the Blue Couch - Laurie Kolp In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado The Price of Salt - Patricia Highsmith Paradise Rot - Jenny Hval Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters Fingersmith - Sarah Waters Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson Rubyfruit Jungle - Rita Mae Brown Under the Udala Trees - Chinelo Okparanta In at the Deep End - Kate Davies Some Girls Do - Jennifer Dugan This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone  The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid Lavender House - Lev AC Rosen My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe - Fannie Flagg Straight Jacket Winter - Esther DuQuette and Gilles Poulin-Denis

Source Books (Referenced, but not named)

The Odyssey - Homer The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams Hamlet - William Shakespeare The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald Come Along with Me - Shirley Jackson (unfinished novel) We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson A Certain Hunger - Chelsea G. Summers The Poison Garden - AJ Banner

Honorable Mentions:

The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson Different Class - Joanne Harris The Lost Girls of Ireland (Book 1) - Susanne O’Leary The Girl Next Door - Jack Ketchum The Broken Girls - Simone St. James Dear Fahrenheit 451 - Annie Spence The Canterville Ghost - Oscar Wilde One Last Stop - Casey McQuiston Ash - Malinda Lo Everything Leads to You - Nina LaCour Camp Slaughter - Sergio Gomez The Silence of the Girls - Pat Barker The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka A Slow Fire Burning - Paula Hawkins The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory The Miseducation of Cameron Post - Emily M. Danforth Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

Banished (Under the Coffee Table) Books - DO NOT READ:

Ulysses - James Joyce Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara The Hunting Party - Lucy Foley My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult The Book Thief - Markus Zusak In the Darkroom - Susan Faludi Marley & Me - John Grogan

Recs from Fellow Readers

Things We Lost in the Fire - Marina Enriquez Her Body and Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall Stone Butch Blues - Leslie Feinberg Mouthful of Birds - Samantha Schweblin  The Safety of Objects - A.M. Homes Crush - Richard Siken The Taming of the Shrew - Shakespeare I’ve Got a Time Bomb - Sybil Lamb The Thing Around Your Neck - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Last Night at the Telegraph Club - Malinda Lo Sadie - Courtney Summers The Messy Lives of Book People - Phaedra Patrick The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires - Grady Hendrix The Final Girl Support Group - Grady Hendrix The Lying Lives of Adults - Elena Ferrante They Were Here Before Us - Eric LaRocca The Patience Stone - Atiq Rahimi Agamemnon - Aeschylus Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's poetry - (start with "You Foolish Men") The poems of Sappho - (“Anactoria”, the book of fragments, and “Goatherd” specifically)

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A recommended list of books I own and read

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls

Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

Just Kids by Patti Smith

Fatal Flowers by Rosemary Daniell

Suicide Blonde by Darcey Steinke

The Prince of Lost Places by Kathy Hepinstall

What Remains of Me by Alison Gaylin

Never Look Back by Alison Gaylin

If I Die Tonight by Alison Gaylin

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

I Am the Only Running Footman by Martha Grimes

The Deer Leap by Martha Grimes

The Old Contemptibles By Martha Grimes

The Anodyne Necklace by Martha Grimes

Help the Poor Struggler by Martha Grimes

And Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell

Watching You by Lisa Jewell

Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell

The Truth about Melody Browne by Lisa Jewell

The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell

The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell

A Judgment in Stone by Ruth Rendell

A Demon in my View by Ruth Rendell

The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates

The Doll Master by Joyce Carol Oates

Night Gaunts by Joyce Carol Oates

The Female of the Species by Joyce Carol Oates

Pursuit by Joyce Carol Oates

High Lonesome by Joyce Carol Oates

I Know You Know by Gilly Macmillan 

The Nanny by Gilly Macmillan

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins

A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins

She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

White Oleander by Janet Fitch

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy

Over Tumbled Graves by Jess Walter

Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

Lost Souls by Lisa Jackson

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

All Around the Town by Mary Higgins Clark

Southern Cross by Patricia Cornwell

Dead Run by Erica Spindler

Carrie by Stephen King

The Shining by Stephen King

Bag of Bones by Stephen King

The Stand by Stephen King

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

The Right Hand of Evil by John Saul

A Season in Purgatory by Dominick Dunne

The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney

Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll

The Favorite Sister by Jessica Knoll

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

Dream Girl by Laura Lippman

Every Secret Thing by Laura Lippman

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett

The Third Twin by Ken Follett

Vanish by Tess Gerritsen

Good Girls Lie by J.T. Ellison

When Shadows Fall by J.T. Ellison

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Villette by Charlotte Bronte

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

The Turn of the Screw & Daisy Miller by Henry James

The Good Girl by Mary Kubica

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

Crank by Ellen Hopkins

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

The Gemma Doyle trilogy by Libba Bray

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins

Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews

Petals on the Wind by V.C. Andrews

Garden of Shadows by V.C. Andrews

My Sweet Audrina by by V.C. Andrews

The Cutler series by V.C. Andrews

The Logan series by V.C. Andrews

The Hudson series by V.C. Andrews

Ruby by V.C. Andrews

Pearl in the Mist by V.C. Andrews

The 9th Girl by Tami Hoag

The Elizas by Sara Shepard

The Lying Game by Sara Shepard

Wait for Me by Sara Shepard

Nowhere Like Home by Sara Shepard

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger

Anthem by Ayn Rand

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

A Spy in the House of Love by Anais Nin

Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Summer by Edith Wharton

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott

The It Girl by Ruth Ware

In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware

The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

The Butterfly Girl by Rene Denfeld

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood

The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison

Small Sacrifices by Ann Rule

If You Really Loved Me by Ann Rule

Green River, Running Red by Ann Rule

Every Breath You Take by Ann Rule

The Blooding by Joseph Wambaugh

Slenderman by Kathleen Hale

Breaking Blue by Timothy Egan

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

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Fake Date- Eddie Munson

Pairing: Eddie Munson x Reader

Characters: Eddie Munson

Warnings: N/A

Request: N/A

Word Count: 717

Author: Charlotte

You had only been in Hawkins for a couple of days but already you were getting a little sick of it. You’d only had a couple of days of classes at the High School and were already being pursued rather incessantly by Jason Carver. He had made it clear that he found you attractive and frankly that’s all he needed and cared about to make you worthy of his pursuits. You barely knew him, but his hounding was enough to know he wasn’t your type. The only relief you had was it was the weekend, and you didn’t have to see him for two days. 

Nothing could be that simple though. You had decided to go to the mall to get a couple of things you needed for classes and were likely still deeply hidden in the cardboard boxes that filled your home. Minding your own business, you walked through the mall, trying to find the store you needed when you heard your name called by the voice you least wanted to hear. 

“Hey Y/N,” Jason smiled. “How lucky am I to bump into you?” 

You put on a fake smile, wanting to be polite and hope he’d move on quickly. 

“I’m sorry Jason, I don’t have time to chat,” you said apologetically. 

He raised an eyebrow. “What’s so important, you’ve got to run off so quickly?”

You tried to think of a good idea that would push him away. You hated that using another male would be your best bet to rid you of him, but if it meant you could have a moment of peace, you would lie your way out of this.

“I’m actually meeting a date,” you lied. “He’s probably wondering where I am.”

Jason didn’t seem impressed. 

“Who’s your date with?” He asked, starting to see through your lies. 

You hummed as you thought. You didn’t really know anyone’s name yet, having barely had a chance to meet people. You looked past Jason and there you saw your saviour. Walking in your direction was the guy who sat in front of you in maths and although you didn’t know him personally, you hoped he’d play along. 

He did seem a little intimidating with a resting frown upon his face, framed by his long curly brown hair and alternative style; but you had seen him laughing with his friends at lunch and you could only assume he was nice enough and disliked Jason enough to help. 

“There he is now,” you said with your fake smile, pointing towards him as he neared. 

When he was close enough, you bounded to him wrapping your arms around him, confusing the life out of him. 

“Please play along,” you whispered in his ear before pressing a soft kiss to his cheek. 

“Sorry I’m late, I got lost and couldn’t find where we said we’d meet for our date,” you said, peering out of the corner of your eye at Jason. 

He took your hand, giving you a knowing smile. 

“It’s okay darling. We can go wherever you like; shall we grab some ice cream?” He offered. 

“That’d be great,” you said before turning back to Jason. “Nice seeing you, we better get going.”

Before Jason could say anything else you led your date away and towards the escalator. 

Once you were out of earshot you stopped, your face a little flushed from the nerves of having roped this poor guy into your lies. 

“I’m sorry for that,” you apologised. “Since I moved here, Jason’s been laying it on pretty thick, I recognised you from math class and you seemed nice, and I panicked.”

A chuckle rumbled through his chest as he raised your hand that he was still holding to his lips. 

“I’m glad to be of assistance, Lady Y/N.”

You couldn’t help your smile. 

“How do you know my name?” You questioned

“How could I not know the name of the new girl who was reading The Hobbit at lunch?” He grinned. “I’m Eddie by the way.”

“You like Tolkien?”

He nodded his head, his free hand running through his messy hair. 

“Maybe we could talk about it whilst we go get that ice cream?” He asked nervously. “Only if you actually want to though. No pressure.”

You grinned in return. “I would love that.”

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[moneeb0930]

Mary McLeod Bethune, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, and Mary Church Terrell, were just a few notable women with whom our beloved Dr. Carter G. Woodson was known to associate with. Part of the reason Dr. Woodson was so successful in his pursuit of preserving, disseminating, and institutionalizing Black History was due to the support of women, in particular Black women.

[scribblesartcollective]

Lois Mailou Jones was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Her parents, a cosmetologist and a lawyer, encouraged her interest in art from childhood. While always a Bostonian at heart, she did do much of her growing up in Cape Cod at Martha's Vineyard where her parents bought a house. There, she would meet great influences on her life. Artist, Meta Warrick Fuller, Novelist Dorothy West, and Composer, Harry T Burleigh. And with such a pedigree as her influences, she could only be destined for great things.

She attended the High School of Practical Arts in Boston and took night classes at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts through a scholarship. Her first exhibition, was at just seventeen, in Martha's Vineyard. She was also apprenticed to costume designer Grace Ripley, and this sparkled her interest and influence by African masks.

She continued studying at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, studying design and winning a scholarship and also took night courses at MassArt, then called the Boston Normal Art School, while working toward her degree. She graduated and went on to get her graduate degree from the Design Art School of Boston. Then later, in 1928, the shift happened. She attended Howard University, and began to focus on painting.

A life longer learner, she never stopped going to school. She took classes and earned more degrees throughout her life.

She began teaching soon after finishing college (the first one), but the director of the Boston Museum School refused to hire her because she was a black woman. In 1928 she was hired by Charlotte Hawkins Brown to teach at the newly formed art department at Palmer Memorial Institute, a black prep school in North Carolina.

If it wasn't clear already that Lois was renaissance person, while teaching at the prep school, she also taught folk dance, coached basketball, and played piano during church services. But soon she was off to Washington DC. Recruited by James Vernon Herring to join the Art Department at Howard University. She would stay there as a professor of both design and watercolor until her retirement in 1977.

Through the 1930s she sough recognition. She began to exhibit her works with the William E Harmon Foundation. The first piece, a simple charcoal drawing of a young black man, entitled Negro Youth (1929). She spent time in Harlem as the Harlem Renaissance began. By this time she had been a designer, leaned into portraiture, and now began to meld the two disciplines. A unique style began to develop that was all her own.

In 1937, Lois received a fellowship to study in Paris, France at the Académie Julian. In that year abroad she produced 40 paintings, watercolor and en plein air. Two pieces were selected for exhibition at the Salon de Printemps at the Société des Artists Fraçais. Like many black artist that traveled abroad, Lois fell in love with France where she felt more free and more accepted. She would extend her time abroad and travel to Italy, but she did return the US following. She traveled often to France, staying with her colleague and friend, Céline Marie Tabary. They no doubt influenced each other's work, but Lois was also influenced by the culture around her, and it's visible in her work from the geometry of her shapes to her use of color.

In 1941, Lois would enter a painting into the Corcoran Gallery's anuual competition. At this time in history, black Americans were not allowed to submit their own art. So, she had a colleague at Howard University, Tabary submit it for her in order to get around the rule. For her piece, Indian Shops Gay Head, Massachusetts, she won the Robert Woods Bliss Award. Though, just as she could not submit her own work, she also could not pick up her own reward. But Tarbary would do this for her as well. These difficulties did not deter Lois. She only dug her heels in and kept working.

She worked alongside and within the Négritude movement. Her work the visual for the primarily literary movement. For example, her piece, Parisian Beggar Woman was completed with text from Langston Hughs.

Back in 1934, Lois met Lois Vergniaud Pierre-Noel while she was a student in Columbia University. A prominent Haitian artist, they corresponded for nearly twenty years before marrying in the South of France in 1953. From here, her frequent trips to Haiti would great influence her work. In 1954 the Haitian government invited her to paint the people and landscapes of Haiti, and she returned to the country often as well as to France. The works she produced between the mid 50's and mid 60's are among her most prominent and well know works. As time went on, she was still extremely prolific and her style only becoming more colorful and more seamless in it's blending of Post-Impressionist, African and textile-like design. In 1990, The Meridian International Center with the help of Lois, created an exhibition that toured the US for several years. While this was not her first exhibition or her first solo exhibition, this was the first that garnered national attention. While her skill was incredible, she did not paint what was in vogue for black artists. Despite this lack of appreciation, her work is in museums all over the world. From Haiti, to the White House. Lois would die in 1998 at her home in Washington DC at the age of 92. While history has done Lois a disservice, she was so prolific that's easy to see her work today. And it truly is incredible. All her influences filtered through her into something unique and challenging. If you'd like to see her work or learn more about her life: Loïs Mailou Jones: Creating A New African-American Image

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Congratulations to the nominees for NAACP Image Awards in you respective categories. The full list is at the bottom. Gonna shout-out the people I love and support. Long list incoming lol:

Colman Domingo (Rustin, Color Purple)

Fantasia Barrino (Color Purple)

Halle Bailey (The Color Purple, The Little Mermaid)

Keke Palmer (Password)

Usher

Victoria Monet

Coco Jones

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Jamie Foxx (The Burial)

Jeffery Wright (American Fiction)

John Boyega (They Cloned Tyrone)

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (Origin)

Teyana Taylor (A Thousand One)

Yara Shahidi (Sitting in Bars with Cake)

Corey Hawkins (The Color Purple)

Sterling K. Brown (American Fiction)

Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple)

Da'Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers)

Erika Alexander (American Fiction)

Taraji P. Henson (The Color Purple)

Myla Davis-Kent (Creed 3)

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Ariana Debose (Wish)

Brian Tyree Henry (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Daniel Kaluuya (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse)

Issa Rae (Barbie, American Fiction, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse)

Calah Lane (Wonka)

Paul Yee (Joy Ride)

Kerry Washington (UnPrisoned)

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Tichina Arnold (The Neighborhood)

Tyler James Williams (Abbott Elementary)

Ayo Edebiri (The Bear)

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Damson Idris (Snowfall)

Jabari Banks (Bel-Air)

Angela Bassett (9-11)

India Ria Amarteifio (Queen Charlotte)

Octavia Spencer (Truth be Told)

Queen Latifah (The Equalizer)

Arsema Thomas (Queen Charlotte)

Nicole Beharie (The Morning Show)

Dominique Fishback (Swarm)

Chloe Bailey (Swarm, Praise This)

Jharrel Jerome (Full Circle)

Aja Naomi King (Lessons in Chemistry)

Micheala Jae Rodriguez (American Horror Story)

Jennifer Hudson

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[thewritersaddictions]

Request: Eddie Munson- Live, Life, Love

Pairing: Eddie Munson x Chrissy Cunningham

Pov: Chrissy Cunningham

Warnings: Daddy!Eddie Munson, toddler/baby fever, reminiscing over the past, fluff, romance.

Summary: Chrissy takes the time to just look upon a family that had become her and Eddies.

WC- 1.0k

A/n-@firefly-graphics for dividers

Stranger Things Master List // The Adults Master List // Request Master List

The giggling was what woke me up from my sleep. The bed wasn’t to cold and wasn’t to warm. Eddie had probably been out of bed for a while now atleast. More giggling proceeded as I laid in bed wiping the tired from my eyes. “Daddy, you so funny.” I hear our daughter practically scream out. I smirk at the way I forget everyday just how much our daughter isn’t to far off of being just like Eddie. 

“I’m not the funny one munchkin.”I hear Eddie say in a soft voice. I gather myself, slipping my feet into my slippers and my robe on over my sleep wear. More giggling proceeds from down the hallway. I can hear the slight noise of our daughters favorite morning tv show. A contant noise that bounces off of the houses walls. 

I stand at the doorway to our living room. Eddie has Charlotte wrapped around his arms. Her legs draped over her fathers rather skinny and long legs. His arm is holder her close to him, as he watches the show alongside her. Charlotte doesn’t do anything but pay attention to the show that’s colorful and bright on the screen. 

Charlotte goes our to reach beside her, Eddie looks like hes holding a small bowl in his hand, one of which is not breakfast-appropriate food, but reagrdless she shoves the animal crackers in her mouth, not caring about the crumbles that fall to her fathers legs. 

Charlotte looks almost identlical to her father, dark brown wavy hair. Thats almost always uncontrollable to a comb, something that Eddie had commented would be the down fall of me during the morning, and night. Her eyes beam just like Eddies do, something I figure that only happens when we are all together. 

I continued to watch the sight of Eddie. He slowly reaches up to Charlotte head, his large hand going through her hair. Detangling has he goes along. She isn’t bothered by her fathers determination to comb out her tangles. His rings still siting on the side table of the couch. Within a few moments he’s managed to what takes me nearly an hour to do. He’s gotten through all of her tangles and her hair lays nicly at her shoulders. Long brown wavy hair, sometimes Eddie will go and dress them alike and it just melt me to my core. My Eddie and my baby matching like twins. 

Eddie had really become to love his father role. Something about not having a great father role really put a type of force upon his shoulders. When I told Eddie that I was pregnant he nearly fell over. I remember having to catch his arm and bring back to me. He worried he wouldn’t be that good of a father worried he’d turn out just like his own father, a distance and uncaring one. I wish I could take a picture of the two of them now just to have evidence that regardless of his over flowing bad thoughts of himself he’s the only one I’d choose to take care of my daughter. 

When I had told Eddie I was pregnant the second person to find out was his uncle Wayne. Wayne had been the only male support during Eddie younger years. Wayne had taken a likling to me as I started to show up to their trailer when Eddie and I  were just firends at the start of out high school career. Wayne gave Eddie a few pieces of advice none of which he told me, but I wonder what they talked about I wonder what Wayne said to make Eddie not worry to much. 

I continued to stand their watching my family watch cartoons at nine in the morning. I remember the day that Eddie proposed to me, we were still living in Hawkins even with all the bullshit from our senoir year. Our lives were here and there was no changing that for either us. Eddie took my hand one day a random tuesday that turned into something so special for the two of us. We just walked an walked until somehow we landed back at the picnics near the high school. Not deep in the woods but it was draped in white clothes, flowers and the romantic feeling was setting in. 

Those words that sliped out of his mouth, his hair pined up in a messy bun black jeans hitting the fallen leaves. I remember the way the air smelt in the fall and the way Eddies eyes were pleading with me to say ‘yes’ I remember the day to a tee. The funniest thing of the whole situation I would probaly would have slapped you if you had said that four years after of knowing Eddie that he’s be on his knees proposing in the most dramatic and romantic way, or four years later when I stood infront of the sink looking at myself and feeling the weight of the pregnancies test in my hand and thinking that we were going to have a baby, we were yearning to be a family. 

If you had told me when  first met Eddie that I’d end up befriending him, falling in love with him, marrying him, and having his child. I would have screamed, yelled and most definlty slapped you. But now right now as I look at my husband and my daughter I wouldn’t… couldn’t give it up for anything or anyone. 

My Eddie and my Charlotte were everything I didn’t know I. had been placed needed, but that love. Eddie was the best thing that happened to me when I was young, and then we did only our love something that for each other could afford. We brought something to love together. 

“What were you thinking about love?” I heard Eddie ask me, the trance and thought being replaced by the feeling of his lips on my forehead. “I was just thinking about us, and about how much we’ve gone though to get here.” I answered honestly. “Well you keep thinking about that love, or you could come watch this great cartoon with me and our daughter.” Eddie said kissing my lips this time. “BE in the moment love.” He said before walking back to the bambling toddler who was entranced by the dancing colors on the screen. 

Be in the moment, as much as I love the past. I loved my present even more. “Come on Mrs.Munson we have some tv to watch,” Eddie smirked as he sat back down this time leaving me room on the couch.

Completed on: 10/07/22

Posted on: 10/08/22

The Adults-

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“Bath was a setting for many novelists, with Austen and Tobias Smollett making particularly good use of the city—Austen in Northanger Abbey and Persuasion and Smollett in the very funny The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771). The city’s appearance in novels reflected the appeal of the new, the attraction of leisure, and its significance in social life. Bath was far from new as a settlement, going back to pre-Roman days, but it was new as an eighteenth-century experience, both as a place of leisure—indeed, the place of leisure—and as a new townscape made dramatic by its rise up an impressive hill. 

By 1800, Bath had a population of about thirty-three thousand and was about the tenth largest town in England and Wales, although the numbers there fluctuated with visitors and therefore the season. Bath was scarcely unique as a fashionable spa; the town itself, as well as its waters, were a commodity to be visited and an image to be consumed. Thirty-four new spas were founded in England between 1700 and 1750 and even more in the second half of the century. Thus, Southampton, where Austen moved in 1806 and originally not associated with a spa, had its Chaleybeate spa. Moreover, among the spas, Tunbridge Wells had a major advantage over Bath due to its proximity to London. 

It was the spa visited by Austen’s cousin Eliza in 1787, and, in Austen’s Lesley Castle, Tunbridge Wells, along with London and Bath, is where Margaret Lesley and Charlotte Lutterell might meet in 1792. But for having fourteen children, the Heywoods in Sanditon would have been able to afford “an occasional month at Tunbridge Wells . . . and a winter at Bath,” the combination indicating that spas could be complementary resorts as well as rivals. In Pride and Prejudice, Georgiana Darcy’s friends go to Scarborough. For a spa resort, Mrs. Elton suggests Bath or Clifton. If not London, the spas of Tunbridge Wells and Cheltenham are not “the country,” as Edmund Bertram notes. Nevertheless, Bath became the great spa where there was most to do and where you should be seen. 

When Lady Anson visited Buxton in 1751, in contrast, she was bored and dissatisfied. Bath set out to make certain its visitors were neither. Although already successful, the development of Bath as a city of orderly leisure, and therefore a respectable and safe place to visit, owed much to Richard “Beau” Nash (1674–1761), who, in 1705, succeeded Captain Webster as the city’s second master of ceremonies. Nash’s “Rules” for the behavior of visitors to Bath were first published in 1707. This was part of the process by which the codification of social propriety was expressed and debated, explicitly or implicitly, in print. Novels were another aspect of this process, and the two combined in that, in fact and in fiction. 

Health might be the basis of the resort, but Bath was often a destination for those seeking marriage, and this goal attracted visitors of all ages. This was the case for men and women of all ages wishing to marry and for the parents acting as chaperones for the young women. Once rejected by Emma, Philip Elton promptly sets off for Bath, where he goes to a full master of ceremonies ball, where prospective partners are introduced. The process works as intended, for his progress to an engagement with Augusta Hawkins is rapid: “the first hour of introduction had been so very soon followed by distinguishing notice  .  .  . the rise and progress of the affair was so glorious—the steps so quick, from the accidental rencontre, the dinner at Mr Green’s, and the party at Mrs Brown’s—smiles and blushes rising in importance.”

Elton is a clergyman who stays at the White Hart, a large coaching inn, when in Bath. There was a strong clerical presence in the city, as it was the center of Lady Huntington’s evangelical “connexion” based on propriety chapels into which she placed Anglican chaplains. Augusta, once established in Surrey as Elton’s wife, recommends Bath’s waters to Mr. Woodhouse, only to be told that he had tried them without success. In a condescending manner toward Emma, Augusta goes on to draw attention to the city’s other, more social and matrimonial, attractions: “It is so cheerful a place, that it could not fail of being of use to Mr Woodhouse’s spirits, which, I understand, are sometimes much depressed. . . . As to its recommendations to you . . . the advantages of Bath to the young are pretty generally understood. It would be a charming introduction for you, who have lived so secluded a life.”

Emma was not impressed, but then Augusta is a caricature of misunderstanding and social solecism, indeed repeatedly so. Subsequently, Frank Churchill, with reference to the Eltons, comments on the misleading social show of Bath: “How well they suit one another!—Very lucky—marrying as they did, upon an acquaintance formed only in a public place!—They only knew each other, I think, a few weeks in Bath! Peculiarly lucky!—for as to any real knowledge of a person’s disposition that Bath, or any public place, can give—it is all nothing; there can be no knowledge. It is only by seeing women in their own homes, among their own set, just as they always are, that you can form any just judgment. Short of that, it is all guess and luck—and will generally be ill-luck.”

…The walks at Bath were major social attractions. By midcentury, Bath had a series of walks and gardens: the Gravel Walks and the Grove, Harrison’s walks and gardens, the Terrace Walk, the Parades, and the Spring Gardens. They were lined with luxury shops, assembly rooms, and socially acceptable accommodation. Alongside its development as a fashionable resort, the effects of such construction and activity helped make Bath an attractive topic and space for the descriptive poetry, prose, and painting of the period, as in Mary Chandler’s poem A Description of Bath (1733). Novels joined this trend. 

Yet Bath also attracted moral panic, as did so many of the different aspects and sites of urban life in this far-from-secure age. As reflected in the fate of Eliza Williams, the city focused concerns about conduct and misrepresentation, both of which centered on the marriage market and thus sex. Countering perceptions of the city as a place for vice, notably gambling and sex, and the depiction of the worrying problems of luxury, the life of Bath was based on the fusion of gentility and equality. The assurance of the former made it possible, in theory, for the company to set aside status and act as equals, sidelining the concerns about social fluidity that played such a corrosive role in mixing and were actively encouraged by Beau Nash and later, in 1987, contributed to Bath being declared a UNESCO World Heritage site. 

….Like the West End of London, Bath became normative as a setting for the urban play of the social elite through their repetition in novels, plays, and paintings. The town also had a rich cultural life, notably in music, and, in this respect, was more advanced than most other cities. Nevertheless, a poem printed in Swinney’s Birmingham and Stafford Chronicle on May 23, 1776, included criticism of a concert audience in Bath for not concentrating on the music, especially condemning a peer who talked during an excellent chorus.”

- Jeremy Black, “Bath: The Capital of Leisure.” in England in the Age of Austen

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Full Name: Amanda "Marnie” Munson (nee Sullivan) DOB: February 11th 1969 Age: 53 years old

Parents: Allen and Beatrice Sullivan Siblings: Daniel, Alicia, and Matthew S/O: Edward Munson Married: August 11th 1994 (25 years old) Hometown: Hawkins, Indiana Job: Waitress / Stay at Home Mom / Singer Personality: Shy, Naive, Intellegent, and Welcoming

Children: Jesse Wayne Munson (17, 1986) Paris Nichole Munson (21, 1990) Lucie Mae Munson (23, 1992) Dylan Ozzy Munson (23, 1992) Boston Edwin Munson (25, 1994) Isabela Maree Munson (27, 1996) Lorelei Veda Munson (27, 1996) Jeremey Crue Munson (27, 1996) Tallulah Rhode Munson (32, 2001) Charlotte Inez Munson (34, 2003) Axel Sebastian Munson (37, 2006) Appearance: - Brown Eyes - Blonde Hair - Sharp Jaw Line - Either always wearing her cheerleading uniform or a dress with converse

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The Alice Freeman Palmer Memorial Institute, better known as Palmer Memorial Institute, was a school for upper-class African Americans. It was founded in 1902 by Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown in Sedalia, NC. Palmer Memorial Institute was named after Alice Freeman Palmer, former president of Wellesley College and benefactor of Dr. Brown.

It became, before its closure in the 1970s, a fully accredited, nationally recognized preparatory school. More than 1,000 African American students attended the school between 1902 and 1970.

The restored campus buildings of the Palmer Memorial Institute are now the Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum, which belongs to the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources and links Dr. Brown and Palmer Memorial Institute to the larger themes of African American women, education, and social history, with an emphasis on the contributions made by African American citizens to education in North Carolina.

The museum’s visitor center is located in the Carrie M. Stone Teachers’ Cottage (1948) and features exhibits about Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown, the Institute, and African American education in North Carolina. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Introducing Nike Basketball’s Rookie Class of 2023

Nike’s roster of athletes is unmatched. From the greatest of all time to rising stars who are barrier breakers, we partner with the world’s best athletes with the goal of expanding sport for the next generation. To that end, Nike Basketball is proud to introduce its 2023 NBA Rookie Class. Together, these players represent the wave of the future, bringing the game to new heights. 

Anthony Black, Guard

Team: Orlando Magic

Last season, he was the only player in University of Arkansas history to reach more than 450 points, 180 rebounds and 140 assists in a season. 

He was also the only player in the SEC to reach the top 25 in scoring, rebounding, assists, steals and blocked shots. 

Kobe Brown, Forward

Team: Los Angeles Clippers

In Kobe’s senior year at the University of Missouri, he became the third Division I player in the last 25 seasons to score 30 points in back-to-back games against nationally ranked teams. 

He was the only Division I player in the nation last year to shoot 55 percent from the field and 45 percent from three-point range. 

Bilal Coulibaly, Guard

Team: Washington Wizards

He was quickly promoted to his senior-level French team after averaging 21.9 PPG, 2.6 SPG and 1.2 BPG.

He represents France at the international level.

Keyonte George, Guard

Team: Utah Jazz

His 506 points as a freshman at Baylor University were the second most in school history.

He holds the Baylor record for most 20-point games in program history.

Jordan Hawkins, Guard

Team: New Orleans Pelicans

He’s made the second most three-pointers in a single season in University of Connecticut program history, behind only Ray Allen.

He helped lead UConn to win the 2023 NCAA National Title. 

Dereck Lively II

Team: Dallas Mavericks

A five-star center out of Pennsylvania, he was ranked the No. 1 player overall in the state's class of 2022. ESPN ranked him the No. 1 High School Basketball Player in the class of 2022.

His 82 blocked shots last season were the second most by a Duke University freshman in a single season.

Olivier-Maxence Prosper, Forward

Team: Dallas Mavericks

He was a nationally ranked recruit from the class of 2020, concluding his high school career at the NBA’s Latin American Academy in Mexico City.

During NBA Summer League 2023, he averaged 12.6 PPG and 5.4 RPG at 25.4 MPG.

Brandon Miller, Forward

Team: Charlotte Hornets

At the University of Alabama, he became the first conference player ever to win SEC Player of the Year, SEC Freshman of the Year, and SEC Tournament MVP in the same season.

He led all Division I freshmen in scoring last year.

Amen Thompson, Forward

Team: Houston Rockets

In the 2023 NBA Draft, he was the No. 4 overall pick.

He averaged 16.4 PPG, 5.9 APG and 5.9 RPG during the OTE 2022-23 regular season.

Ausar Thompson, Forward

Team: Detroit Pistons 

A five-star recruit out of high school, he won a state title at Pine Crest High School with his brother Amen in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

In the OTE 2022-23 season, he was named the regular-season MVP and finals MVP, averaging 21.0 PPG, 4.8 APG and 5.2 RPG.

Julian Strawther, Forward

Team: Denver Nuggets

He averaged a double-double in high school at 31.5 PPG and 11.1 RPG.

He represents Puerto Rico at the international level.

Cason Wallace, Guard

Team: Oklahoma City Thunder

In high school, he was awarded two separate Player of the Year honors in the state of Texas.

Last year, at the University of Kentucky, he ranked among the NCAA leaders in assists per game, assist-to-turnover ratio, and steals per game.

Victor Wembanyama, Forward

Team: San Antonio Spurs

After winning the Pro A title with ASVEL of the EuroLeague, he went on to play for the Metropolitans 92 where he earned the league's title for scoring and blocks with an average of 21.6 PPG and 3.0 BPG during the 2022-23 season.

He was the No. 1 overall pick for the NBA 2023 Draft.

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"No se debe permitir que las restricciones externas segreguen la mente o el alma"

Charlotte Hawkins Brown