February 23, 2023 Just Imagine…Connecting Threads Daryl Davis was born in 1958. His dad was a U.S. State Department Foreign Service officer. As a result of his dad's service, Daryl grew up living in various countries and...
February 16, 2023 Just Imagine…Experience, Knowledge, and the Marginalized Sometime in the late 1600s or early 1700s, an enslaved man was brought to America from a region in west Africa now called Ghana. He was presented to Cotton Mather,...
February 9, 2023 Just Imagine…the Voice of Human Experience Willie Johnson was born in 1897 to sharecropper parents in Texas. His father gave him a cigar box guitar when he was five. The guitar and regular church attendance were...
February 2, 2023 Just Imagine…Algebra as a Gateway to an Inclusive Society Robert "Bob" Parris Moses was an African American civil rights activist who made several distinctive contributions to the civil rights movement. He was a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating...
January 26, 2023 Just Imagine…the Inevitability of Inequality? It was to be the model of equality in a corporate office. The architect for the new offices was charged with designing an office complex that was symbolic of the...
January 19, 2023 Just Imagine…Thought Leaders for Social Change Howard Thurman was born in 1899 in Daytona Beach, Florida where he and his family lived in the all-Black community of Waycross. Much of Howard’s life journey was shaped by...
January 12, 2023 Just Imagine…A Passion for Healing Eula Hall was born in 1927 near Greasy Creek, Kentucky. Her parents were tenant farmers. She started school at age nine and completed eight grades in five years, but she...
January 5, 2023 Just Imagine…Integrity Influencers Frank Minis Johnson was born in 1918 in an area of northern Alabama known for independent thinking. Back in 1861, his home county, Winston county, opposed seceding from the Union—declaring...
December 22, 2022 What Matters…Sculpting Visions As the director of the local arts museum, Jenny Aguilar was one of the most connected persons in her community. Lately when she met with her colleagues, as a group...