Remote Volunteering: It’s a thing! Fun, interesting, and highly rewarding—it also looks great on a resume.
In the early 2000s, I began to hear about a business concept called crowdsourcing and the hair on the back …
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All you need to know about Putin, and then some. Deep insight into the Russian Bully’s background.
The war over Ukraine rages on and is escalating. PBS and FRONTLINE explore what brought Putin—and the world—to this point. …
My first thought was, “What’s this recommendation based on? You say you know me?”
I received an email from Netflix today. It offered just one show they thought I might enjoy: Word Party Presents …
On Juneteenth, I’m listening to the voices of former slaves as they tell their stories.
Last week I received an email from Dr. Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress. In part she wrote, “This June, we …
Domestic racial terrorism: Learning about and researching the 1921 Tulsa Massacre.
During the Tulsa Race Massacre, white mobs killed hundreds of Black residents and destroyed businesses in the city’s Greenwood district—a …
Storyline Online: Celebrating Black History Month through relevant storytelling.
As a little kid, my parents read to me every night. Then as got a bit older and learned to …
Guide to good writing is still relevant forty years after it was published by Ogilvy & Mather
TV series like Thirtysomething, Bewitched, and more recently, Mad Men brought the advertising industry into focus on the small screen. The 25-years that spanned …
Sharing The New Yorker’s interactive cover for June 22, 2020. Kadir Nelson’s “Say Their Names.”
Profoundly powerful on Juneteenth; tragic and relevant every single day. Click to experience Say Their Names. I lived through this …
David Oyelowo is powerful as Martin Luther King Jr—you can watch the movie, SELMA at no charge.
Selma, director Ava DuVernay’s biopic about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is free to watch and rent on streaming services …
U.S. coronavirus deaths approach 100k—NYTimes shows the power of the printed word.
One story. Just words. Graphically impactful. Tragic. With its singular focus, The front page of The New York Times, blew me away …
Baltimore Museum of Art receives $3.5M gift supporting the world’s largest Matisse collection.
The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) has the largest collection of works by Matisse of any art museum in the …
Register for a series of free photography webcasts produced by the Leica Akademie.
My invitation from Leica arrived via email. It read, “Though we are separated, we are still able to come together …
COVID-19: Biased, false information is running rampant. Here’s a source for accurate information.
While I’ve watched the amount of misinformation being spread online grow geometrically over the last decade, I’m absolutely astonished—frankly, I’m …
Keeping busy during WFH time: Museum of Modern Art and Louise Lawler offer a coloring book.
Working from home (WFH) is challenging for all of us. Here’s a great resource for you and your children—if you …
What the clown-in-chief is really saying: Trump’s response to the coronavirus decoded.
Donald Trump, Feb. 10: “Now, the virus that we’re talking about having to do—you know, a lot of people think that …
A Gargantuan Goof at the Getty, or the Acquisition of a Glorious Gauguin Gone Wrong.
The Art Newspaper is reporting that a carving of a horned devil bought as an original Gauguin by the J. Paul …
Dulé Hill reads “As Fast As Words Could Fly.” A wonderful, thoughtful, & teachable 16 minutes.
I joined Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists—now, SAG-AFTRA—in 1972. For the past 48 …
Explainer videos are exceptional or awful. 1950s explainers were films and usually pretty great.
Today, corporations make short explainer videos fast and on the cheap. And, most of them look it. While popular data …
A new Library of Congress exhibition showcases Rosa Parks through her own words and rare documents.
Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words opens December 5 and showcases rarely seen materials that offer an intimate view of Rosa …
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