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Two students win scholarships from the Japanese Cultural Society of Maui

July 30, 2022 Administrator

Teisha Nishimitsu (left); and Payten Shimizu (right). The Japanese Cultural Society of Maui awarded two scholarships to outstanding students – Teisha Nishimitsu, graduate of King Kekaulike High School, received the Asa Ellison Memorial Scholarship worth $1500; and a $1000 scholarship was also awarded to Payten Shimizu, a graduate of Baldwin High School. The scholars were…

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Meena Kandasamy honoured as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature-Art-and-culture News , Firstpost

July 20, 2022 Administrator

In 2022, the RSL launched a programme to induct Fellows from “communities, backgrounds and experiences currently under-represented in UK literary culture”. This includes writers of colour, LGBTQI+ writers, working class writers, disabled writers, and writers outside of London to ensure diversity. Meena Kandasamy has made a name for herself as a public figure wearing various…

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Finnish American Heritage Society celebrates 35 years

July 19, 2022 Administrator

Katrina Bousquet, member of the Finnish American Heritage Society in Canterbury with a tabletop loom, which is used to make sashes, belts, scarves and small table runners. Robert Harmon, left, and his brother, Richard Harmon, continue a tradition of “relief carving.” During Finland’s Winter War (1939-40), soldiers would carve scenes of their homes, farms and…

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The Hue Society Wine & Culture Fest Promotes a More Equitable Wine Industry

July 17, 2022 Administrator

As a holiday, Juneteenth comes around just once a year, but the Black experience deserves to be recognized and to be celebrated all year long. The Hue Society is a community-based organization dedicated to doing just that — specifically in the wine space. Founded in 2017, the Hue Society was created to increase Black, brown,…

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‘We Deserve to Be Celebrated This Way’: How The Hue Society Is Rewriting the Narrative for Sommeliers of Color

July 15, 2022 Administrator

Tahiirah Habibi fell in love with wine while working at a hotel bar. Once she understood just how passionate she was about it, she worked for it — hard. She was a hostess during the day, but took wine classes at night, studying diligently with her sights set on becoming the first Black woman master…

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How Small Businesses Can Take Big Stands In Society

July 14, 2022 Administrator

Carrie is the Co-CEO of SecondMuse, an impact and innovation company that builds resilient economies. getty When I first entered the corporate world, I knew I wanted to be part of a new generation of leaders who saw the opportunity all businesses have to be a force for good in the world. In the last…

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Oscar Grant’s Mom, Experts Talk Raising Black Boys In Today’s Society

July 8, 2022 Administrator

For the first time, ESSENCE Festival of Culture held spaces for Black men and boys, offering thought-provoking conversations about them. Wellness House drew several men to the “Joy Sanctuary” on Friday afternoon for a panel discussion on raising Black males, loving them and what it can be like to grieve them. The moderator was radio…

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Gun culture propaganda has changed American society

July 7, 2022 Administrator

Activities once considered normal are now plagued by fear thanks to the gun culture. Bicycles remain along the sidewalk after parade-goers fled Downtown Highland Park, Ill., a Chicago suburb, after a mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade on Monday, July 4, 2022. (Mary Mathis/The New York Times) | July 6, 2022, 12:00 p.m….

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Tolkien Society To Feature Paper Titled “J.R.R. Tolkien, Culture Warrior: The Alt-Right Religious Crusade’s Appropriation of ‘Tolkien'” At Oxonmoot 2022

July 6, 2022 Administrator

Hot off their Summer Seminar 2021 where they put the focus on “Tolkien and Diversity,” The Tolkien Society will now feature a paper at their upcoming Oxonmoot event claiming there is an alt-right religious crusade to appropriate J.R.R. Tolkien. Source: Source: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring If you are unfamiliar…

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Marxism: “Marxists are brainwashing us”: The conspiracy theory taking hold among some on the right | Society

July 5, 2022 Administrator

In 2011, when far-right terrorist Anders Breivik murdered 77 people—the majority of whom were young Norwegian Labor Party members—in the massacre on Norway’s Utoya island, he justified his actions as part of the fight against Muslim and Marxist attacks on the West. His thinking (if one wants to call it that) subscribed to the theory…

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