International Youth Day (August 12) Every August 12, the world turns up the volume on youth power. International Youth Day isn’t just a date on the calendar – it’s a global salute to the passion, creativity, and unstoppable drive that young people bring to our communities. Since the United Nations launched it in 1999, this […]
Most people, at least in the United States, have heard of Betsy Ross, the woman credited with making the first American flag, but who was Araminta Ross? Araminta Ross was a person of immense stature in a small body. Only about 5 feet tall (1.53 m), enslaved and illiterate, she dedicated her long life to […]
Pete Seeger died this week. That’s obviously not good news although, at the age of 94, seems natural enough. So who was Pete Seeger? According to The New York Times obituary, he was a “singer, folk-song collector and songwriter who spearheaded an American folk revival and spent a long career championing folk music as both […]
