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Celebrating Black history and Black futures

Candid

This blog provides a brief overview of Juneteenth and the role that HBCUs have played as guardians of Black history and Black futures. . Looking back at the history of Juneteenth and HBCUs. When we talk about history, we always say we teach the past while we teach the future. Looking to the future.

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June Cause Awareness: LGBTQIA+ Pride Month

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The purpose of Pride Month is to recognize the impact that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals have had on history. Their approach is holistic, with a variety of programs focused on cultural arts, wellness, and social justice. Pride Month isn’t all celebrations and rainbows!

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Independence Day, 2011

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Three hundred million of us, each with our own story; the story of who we are and who we hope to be: our family background, our history, our culture, along with our hopes, our dreams, our aspirations and our prayers for our children and for the world. Marvel at the cacophony, for it is the story of a free people.

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Let Freedom Ring

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You can check out more of his writing since 2005 on his blog: [link] -- “We are in the very midst of revolution, the most complete, unexpected, and remarkable of any in the history of the world.” Oil City, Pennsylvania. Today is the day to celebrate that we, the people, are free to have culture wars. A lot of years ago.

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Research Friday: The gift

ASU Lodestar Center

The scariest question of all, the one I was so afraid to even say out loud was: “Are we trying to westernize a culture that is simply … not?” I needed to know more about aid, about philanthropy, about the history of Western involvement in international development. We say, “it’s better”. rms and underlines these theorists’ ?ndings.

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The Great Good Place Book Discussion Part 2: Small Rural Museums as Third Places

Museum 2.0

This guest post was written by Rebecca Lawrence, Museum Educator, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center in Pennsylvania. The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center (SLHC) is a small museum located in Pennsburg, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. How can a local history museum connect with third places in the community?

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Two Crucial Themes from the GDPR Featuring in US-Privacy Legislation

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Marriott suffered a data breach affecting up to 500 million customers—one of the largest breaches in history. The CCPA and bills in states like Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, and Washington give residents the right to request erasure of their data held by organizations.