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Celebrating 2022 International Women’s Day The Buena Semilla Project in Guatemala, a 2021 grantee of the MBI, has produced the below video to celebrate International Women’s Day 2022. Please take a few minutes to appreciate some of what the Martín-Baró…..
To the long list of Vladimir Putin’s offenses, add this footnote: His unprovoked and lawless invasion of Ukraine riveted the world’s attention when it might have been given to the magnificent life and untimely death of a saint, scourge and…..
The condition known as long covid continues to frustrate its sufferers, baffle scientists and alarm people who are concerned about being infected by the coronavirus. The term, a widely used catchall phrase for persistent symptoms that can range from mild to…..
1-Never underestimate the transformative power of individual relationships. (1999 Cathy Hurst Belfast quoting the USA Ambassador to UK) 2-You are either part of the problem or part of the solution- You cannot be neutral and every excuse is a choice……
“IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD, YOU HAVE TO CHANGE THE STORY” What story?” You ask. The story that says, “You are wasting your time trying to change anything.” The story that says,” Who are you to presume…..
War seems endemic to civilization, and in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Ukraine and other places around the world people are fighting right now for some of the same basic reasons they have for millennia. Access to resources often determines the victors in…..
By Laurie White Post dateFebruary 27, 2022 On Monday, Feb. 28, Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich will be joined by Montgomery County Councilmember Will Jawando, Montgomery County Public Libraries Director Anita Vassallo, Montgomery County Department of General Services Director David Dise,…..
By Katherine Shaver February 25, 2022 at 6:00 a.m. EST Washington Post Montrose Parkway in Montgomery County will be renamed Josiah Henson Parkway to honor the 19th-century Methodist preacher who became an abolitionist after escaping enslavement on a plantation in present-day North…..
By John Kelly Columnist Yesterday at 12:00 p.m. EST Washington Post As I waited to board a flight to Wilmington, N.C., last week, my biggest worry was whether I’d have to fight anyone for the last overhead storage space, given my cellar-dwelling position…..
“It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there.” William Carlos Williams LYUBA YAKIMCHUK Died of Old Age granddad and granny passed awaythey died on the…..