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JaNay Brown-Wood writes to inspire young readers through her work as an author, speaker and educator, creating children’s books highlighting diversity to help kids find themselves reflected in the books they read.
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Sac State alumna curates representation and breaks barriers in Black literature
Literacy, diversity and perseverance; JaNay Brown-Wood speaks on the necessity of each principle to shaping a child’s world. Brown-Wood interactively reads aloud to kids and highlights Black experienc...
https://statehornet.com/2026/05/janay-brown-wood-author-speaker-literacy-diversity-learning-children-womens-history/
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From the Archives: The Lasting Influence of the Beat Generation
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From the Archives: The Lasting Influence of the Beat Generation
The signature pose of the fifties counterculture is back, from goatees to espresso bars to a movie version of Jack Kerouac's classic, but, Tad Friend asks, can the beat ever be the same?
https://www.vogue.com/article/from-the-archives-on-the-road-again
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Chuck Jones’ The Dot and the Line Celebrates Geometry & Hard Work: An Oscar-Winning Animation, 1965
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Chuck Jones’ The Dot and the Line Celebrates Geometry & Hard Work: An Oscar-Winning Animation (1965)
The animated short above, The Dot and the Line, directed by the great Chuck Jones and narrated by English actor Robert Morley, won an Oscar in 19656 for Best Animated Short Film.
https://www.openculture.com/2026/05/the-dot-and-the-line.html
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Doris Fisher, co-founder of the Gap, dies at 94 in San Francisco
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Doris Fisher, co-founder of the Gap, dies at 94 in San Francisco
She "captured the American zeitgeist" with the brand.
https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/doris-fisher-gap-obituary-22240879.php
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MUSIC HΞΛVΞN: Happy birthday to English composer and legendary electronic musician Delia Derbyshire May 5, 1937—July 3, 2001 ❝I did rebel. I did a lot of things I was told not to do.❞
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How AI facial recognition in policing works – and how it can go wrong
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Tuesday briefing: How AI facial recognition in policing works – and how it can go wrong
In today’s newsletter: With the use of facial recognition skyrocketing, there are calls for the rapid development of safeguards
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/05/tuesday-briefing-how-ai-facial-recognition-in-policing-works-and-how-it-can-go-wrong
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Since the seventies, American composer and electronics aficionado Jill Fraser has created her own lane of musical experimentation and creativity.
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Synth pioneer Jill Fraser on pushing boundaries in the world of electronic music
Synth legend Jill Fraser delves into her history of evolving musical set-ups, film composition and how her most recent album birthed electronic reinterpretations of US hymns
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/music/articles/synth-pioneer-jill-fraser-pushing-130000748.html
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Lost Ginsberg Recording Resurrected A long forgotten recording of a 1980 European tour performance featuring Allen Ginsberg has been re-discovered by an Austrian researcher and has now been made available to the public for the first time as a vinyl double album.
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Lost Ginsberg recording resurrected
European gig re-emerges as new double album
https://simonwarner.substack.com/p/lost-ginsberg-recording-resurrected
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May 3, 1995: The Go-Nuts, 5,6,7,8's, Highlander II's • Jabberjaw, Los Angeles ᴀʀᴛ ʙʏ ᴄᴏᴏᴘ
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about 22 hours ago
New York Abstract Expressionist artist Richard Pousette-Dart, transmitter of invisible energies. “Great art leaves half the creation to the onlooker, gives the key to a creative experience. Draws the spectator into infinite mysteries.” Symphony 1: The Transcendental 1941-42
#RichardPousette-Dart
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She’s not wrong. At some point you have to ask… are you part of the machine funding the problem?
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He died of AIDS decades ago. His biological kids found him at SFMOMA A newly acquired artwork helped connect two half siblings to the man whose DNA they inherited.
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He died of AIDS decades ago. His biological kids found him at SFMOMA
A newly acquired artwork helped connect two half siblings to the man whose DNA they inherited.
https://sfstandard.com/2026/04/26/never-knew-their-biological-father-found-painting/
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ΛRT HΞΛVΞN: Happy Birthday to American artist Keith Haring May 4, 1958—February 16, 1990 ❝The public needs art — and it is the responsibility of a ‘self-proclaimed artist’ to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses.❞
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A rodent-borne illness is suspected of causing an outbreak aboard a cruise ship that has killed three people and sickened others.
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What to know about hantavirus, the illness suspected in a cruise ship outbreak
Three people have died and others have been sickened by what health authorities suspect is a hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
https://apnews.com/article/what-to-know-hantavirus-cruise-ship-366c781ff168656ff47ae9796965daaa
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BREAKING: Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani is in intensive care with severe food poisoning after fly kicking a trash can and eating the whole roast chicken he found inside
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Black American stories of Route 66 reflect disparity of experience
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Route 66 meant careful planning, not freedom, for Black travelers
The concept of Route 66 as a symbol of freedom didn't ring true for everyone in America. A new exhibit will share African American travelers' stories.
https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2026/05/04/african-americans-route-66-experience/89897268007/
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The Tennessee Holler
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Rep.
@justinjpearson.bsky.social
: “This is an attempt to stop majority Black communities from being able to elect representatives who look like them. Which was the purpose of the Voting Rights Act.”
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May 3, 1948: Supreme Court ruled in Shelley v. Kraemer that federal and state courts could not enforce restrictive convenants which barred persons from owning or occupying property because of their race.
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Andy Warhol presents The Plastic Inevitable Show with The Velvet Underground and Nico at The Trip - 8572 Sunset Strip, Hollywood, California • May 3—18, 1966
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Happy heavenly birthday to American folk singer and social activist Pete Seeger May 3, 1919—January 27, 2014 🎞 Pete singing 'We Shall Overcome' in Berlin, 1967
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DEATH Magazine by artists Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid, 1991-1992 [1/2]
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5 Questions Mai Khôi (singer, composer, activist)
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5 Questions Mai Khôi (singer, composer, activist)
Chrysanthe Tan sits down with Mai Khôi, who shares the political and moral urgency that grounds her newest album, "Five Years in Exile," out now.
https://icareifyoulisten.com/2026/04/5-questions-mai-khoi-singer-composer-activist/
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In case anyone needs these services.
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UT Austin's public art program unveils four-story glass piece by pioneering Black artist Howardena Pindell
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UT Austin's public art program unveils four-story glass piece by pioneering Black artist
In the piece she created for Landmarks, Autobiography: Circles, Howardena Pindell turned a negative experience from her childhood into something powerful.
https://www.tpr.org/news/2026-04-25/ut-austins-public-art-program-unveils-four-story-glass-piece-by-pioneering-black-artist
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The Wild, Sad Life of John Cage’s First Lover Donald Sample
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The Wild, Sad Life of John Cage’s First Lover
Whatever became of Don Sample?
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/onward-and-upward-with-the-arts/the-wild-sad-life-of-john-cages-first-lover
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Ben Wood /|\✝️🔶️💚☮️
3 days ago
'We shower money on generals & on nobles, we keep high-born paupers living on the national charity, we squander wealth with both hands on...palaces; but we grudge every halfpenny that increases the education rate & howl down every proposal to build decent houses for the poor' (Annie Besant, 1893).
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Keaton music typewriter, circa 1936.
musicprintinghistory.org/about-music-...
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The first group of dogs included in the Ridglan Farms agreement left the facility Friday, marking a major step in the plan to move 1,500 beagles from the Blue Mounds breeding and research facility to rescue groups.
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First dogs leave Ridglan Farms, touch grass for first time as 1,500-dog transfer begins
The dogs were brought to a staging area, where they received vaccines, microchips and initial care before getting time outside.
https://share.google/1bWUHnhrfzoHhfVP7
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May 2, 1969, Peanuts
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May 2, 1960: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Robert Rauschenberg, New York, New York 📷 ʀɪᴄʜᴀʀᴅ ᴀᴠᴇᴅᴏɴ
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45-year old Guido Reichstadter is occupying the top of Washington’s Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge to protest the war on Iran.
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Derf Backderf
4 days ago
Nicole Hollander, passed away at age 87. Safe travels, Nicole.
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Georgia O’Keeffe is not known for portraiture but she did paint this portrait of fellow US modernist painter Beauford Delaney (1943), who she greatly admired. Delaney was a major figure of the Harlem Renaissance and also gay
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Seven Days In May starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, and Ava Gardner, 1964
#FilmSky
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International Workers' Day poster, nd
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Headquarters
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Republican New Hampshire Senate candidate John Sununu says he supports a work requirement for seniors on Medicare: "I certainly support a work requirement for able-bodied Medicare recipients."
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Voting Rights Act is hollowed out by Supreme Court after 61 years
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Supreme Court hollows out a landmark law that had protected minority voting rights for 6 decades
The Voting Rights Act over its six decades became one of the most consequential laws in the nation’s history, preventing discrimination against minorities at the ballot box and helping to elect thousa...
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-louisiana-alabama-4e3225083caccda5ec73a98533a79add
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J.A.Tallon
4 days ago
Leila Hyams in "Freaks" - BOTD
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🍃 Happy Beltane🌷 to all who celebrateI
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Free DC
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BREAKING: Activists have shut down multiple intersections throughout downtown Washington DC in opposition to Trump's attacks on workers, DC Home Rule, climate, and international peace. The actions kick off
#MayDay
events across the country.
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What is May Day? Workers around the world have, for over a century, fought to ensure the bare minimum of labor rights. And May Day is just one day that commemorates their efforts. But what's the story behind the day in the United States?
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Workers Of The World Unite And Fight – May Day Explained
YouTube video by AJ+
https://youtu.be/i-ulhdrB_rE?si=w1WEHTMryLNhgAlS
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Labor Day on May 1st. It was moved by the government to distance the day from the actual labor movement that birthed it. Following the Haymarket affair, a strong anti-union movement arose in the United States.
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Why American Labor Day is in September
The United States does not celebrate its workers in May like the rest of the world
https://www.voanews.com/a/usa_why-american-labor-day-september/6174955.html
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot
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There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
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Joe Strummer and his white Fender Esquire ❝𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝗧𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗔 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆❞ guitar.
#MayDay
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U.S. activists plan May Day economic blackout: ‘No school, no work, no shopping’
#MayDay
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US activists plan May Day economic blackout: ‘No school, no work, no shopping’
Actions expected to exceed 3,000 as unions and groups expand protests inspired by Minnesota ICE crackdown
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/28/may-day-economic-blackout
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May 1-4, 1975: Television & The Modern Lovers ☆ CBGB, New York, New York
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𝖗𝖆𝖇𝖇𝖎𝖙 • 𝖗𝖆𝖇𝖇𝖎𝖙 • 𝖗𝖆𝖇𝖇𝖎𝖙 ᴀʀᴛ ʙʏ ᴋᴇᴠɪɴ sʟᴏᴀɴ
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Iggy is sending a message. The departure from his Coachella performance in a coffin and now this. Iggy Pop replaced by Britpop icon as he steps back from BBC radio show 💔
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Iggy Pop replaced by Britpop icon as he steps back from BBC radio show
Iggy Pop to step back from long-running BBC Radio 6 Music show after 12 years
https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/music/iggy-pop-bbc-six-music-jarvis-cocker-b2918338.html
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