Clint 2

Book of Month | April 2023

Daily Digest, Lyric & Verse

A remarkable poetry collection with “inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom” (Monica Youn) from Clint Smith, the #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Critics Circle award-winning author of How the Word Is Passed. Clint…

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Music Review for April 2023

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To a sultry rocking chair tempo, “Proof” gets a meaty rendering by Rhythm of Gospel Award nominee K.T. Ellis, who is making his recording debut on Blacksmoke Music Worldwide. Ellis’s…

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Cotton

Poetry | Black Cotton by Arthur Cunningham Clark

Daily Digest, Lyric & Verse

Clear blue skies, fresh cut grasswater as clear as new made glasscurtains of lace, linens so finefurniture of mahogany, ebony, & pinebedcloths of satin, blankets so warmthat makes things seem…

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boy math at the board

Declines in math readiness underscore the urgency of math awareness by Manil Suri

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When President Ronald Reagan proclaimed the first National Math Awareness Week in April 1986, one of the problems he cited was that too few students were devoted to the study of math.…

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