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1 month ago | 
oxfordamerican.org | Madeline Weinfield |Latria Graham
THE FOOD ISSUEIN THE STREETS WITH THE KREWE OF MUNG BEANSRedefining the spirit of New OrleansBy E. M.
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2 months ago | 
villages-news.com | Latria Graham
By Latria Graham, GLB Media GroupWinter Park, FL, February 20 – On February 27, 2025, the Winter Park Institute will welcome renowned Harvard professor and #1 New York Times best-selling author Arthur C.
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2 months ago | 
gardenandgun.com | Latria Graham |Gabriela Gomez-Misserian
Sometimes a place finds you when you most need it. Such was the case with the Museum of Infinite Outcomes, tucked in a little patch of sun in Knoxville. I was there because I was searching. Early in the fall, I emphasized to my creative writing students at Georgia’s Augusta University that stories are about power: who has it, who wants it, and why. And our personal stories are about agency—the capacity and drive to make choices.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
gardenandgun.com | Latria Graham |Gabriela Gomez-Misserian
Sunburned, dehydrated, and a little out of sorts, I’m beginning to wonder why I have agreed to this early-morning fishing excursion with my brother at, of all places, Walt Disney World. My relationship with Nicholas has frayed; I would say “in recent years,” but our friction goes back decades. We now only exchange the occasional frosty text about our mother’s health.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
gardenandgun.com | Latria Graham |Gabriela Gomez-Misserian
For a moment I am sure I am hallucinating. George Washington, or someone dressed like him—embroidered breeches, waistcoat, tricorn hat, curly white wig—has just folded himself up into a blue Kia Soul and sped away. Two women in mobcaps, shawls, petticoats, and aprons follow, piling in a Prius and leaving the parking lot, too.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
cntraveller.de | Latria Graham |Nathalie Meier-Scupin |Kalle Harberg
Die Erde von Charleston hat alles gesehen. Diese Geschichte aber beginnt auf dem Wasser. Eingepfercht in die Laderäume europäischer Schiffe wurden im 16. Jahrhundert Hunderttausende Menschen als Versklavte von Westafrika nach Amerika verschleppt. Wer die Tortur überlebte, landete auf der vorgelagerten Insel Sullivan’s Island, die Charleston vom offenen Meer trennt.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
gardenandgun.com | Latria Graham |Gabriela Gomez-Misserian |Explore Asheville
Murry Burgess and Lauren D. Pharr first bonded over birds. The pair had met during graduate school at North Carolina State University but became fast friends while on a trip to Pennsylvania’s Powdermill Nature Reserve to train in avian banding and tracking. “Every time I do this work there’s wonder,” Burgess says of collecting data in the field. “Often there’s this tiny powerful bird in my palm—so fragile, so soft, with this hard rapid heartbeat that shows it’s capable of flying across the country.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
afar.com | Latria Graham
Plantation tours across the United States are sharing the real story of American chattel slavery. Illustration by Mark Harris; Photos for Hampton Plantation Exterior by Ian Dagnall / Alamy Stock Photo When I was 11, my school took a field trip to Walnut Grove Plantation, one of the oldest homes in South Carolina.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Latria Graham
Culture3 hours ago11 Things You Didn’t Know Had Racist Originsthequeenzone.com - Dede Wilson • 3hSome things are so obviously and inherently racist that no one can deny it.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
gardenandgun.com | Latria Graham |Gabriela Gomez-Misserian
This LandA grandmother’s gift sparks a curiosity now fed by an urban botanical wonderland in Atlanta The first gift I remember my paternal grandmother giving me was a touch-me-not. I was not quite six when Grandma Mary held out the plant, potted in a Dixie cup, to me and stroked its tiny fernlike leaves. I gasped as the fronds folded in on themselves at the stimulation.
