Angela Davis was born in Birmingham, Alabama. The family lived in the “Dynamite Hill” neighborhood, which was marked in the 1950s by the bombings of houses of middle-class blacks who had moved into the area. Davis attended Carrie A. Tuggle School, a segregated black elementary school. During this time Davis’ mother, Sallye Bell Davis, was […]
Friday, January 27th brings us a New Moon in Aquarius, followed by the Chinese New Year on Saturday, which always falls on the first new moon in Aquarius – the first New Moon of 2017. There is a sense of feeling as if there is much to overcome and a lot is posing obstacles in […]
“Nothing thicker than a knifes blade separates happiness and melancholy.” – Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf, born Adeline Virginia Stephen on January 25th, 1882 was an English writer and leading modernist of the twentieth century. Known for her groundbreaking books, including Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, To the Lighthouse, A Room of One’s Own and The Waves and her stylistic […]
“To know Sharon, to really know her, was to love her.” – Sheilah Wells Everyone knows the name Sharon Tate. First they know her as the victim of the famous Manson murders. Then they know her for being married to Roman Polanski. What many don’t know, is she was one of the Hollywood’s most promising newcomers, depicted […]
Dame Daphne du Maurier was an English author and playwright. Although she is classed as a romantic novelist, her stories seldom feature a conventional happy ending, and have been described as ‘moody and resonant’ with overtones of the paranormal. These bestselling works were not at first taken seriously by the critics, but have since earned […]
Emily Kame Kngwarreye was an Australian Indigenous artist from Utopia, in the Northern Territory. She began painting in her late 70’s and produced around 3,000 paintings in the remainder of her life. Her early works are dominated by Indigenous motifs and colors and whilst her style developed to more vivid and free expressionism, the themes […]
Ashley Judd was one of the 470,000 people at the women’s march in Washington on Saturday. She was one of countless celebrities to not just attend, but speak. Judd stole the show, however, with her performance of 19-year-old, Nina Donovan’s poem “Nasty Woman”. While there are some political undertones and references the Trump, the poem […]
There’s a power in quotes. Whether it be in four words of forty, there’s something about these small pearls of wisdom that bury themselves deep in our souls, waiting to be felt and recalled every time we need help or assistance. That’s power. The power to recall words and use them to keep going. A […]