Culture

The Privilege of the Right to Vote

Posted on Nov 08, 2016 | by glonigro | Comments Off

In high school, a friend told me her mother, a young homemaker married to a successful businessman, questioned the 19th Amendment:
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Posted on Jun 14, 2016 | by glonigro | Comments Off

Someone once told me that people either love the smell of lavender OR rose. We were having a conversation about Neal’s
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Posted on Jun 17, 2015 | by glonigro | Comments Off

When my grandmother set sail for America with her family in the early 20th century, she was a young girl who
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Posted on Mar 10, 2015 | by glonigro | Comments Off

While the name Sylvia Beach may not be familiar to you, you have probably heard of two of her greatest accomplishments:
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Posted on Feb 16, 2015 | by glonigro | Comments Off

It’s unlikely we would be familiar with Zora Neale Hurston’s work today if it wasn’t for Alice Walker’s essay “In Search
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Posted on Jul 25, 2014 | by glonigro | Comments Off

As more details emerge about the recent Comcast customer service call fiasco, it has become clear that the company culture encouraged
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Posted on Jun 19, 2014 | by glonigro | Comments Off

Earlier this month, a friend and I set out to visit the 9/11 Memorial Museum. I had researched ticket availability ahead
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Posted on May 08, 2014 | by glonigro | Comments Off

Last spring, the three-part miniseries The Bletchley Circle aired on PBS. Set in England in 1951, the show’s first season imagined what
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Posted on Dec 24, 2013 | by glonigro | Comments Off

For the last few years, my first order of the day on Christmas Eve has been to shop for the food
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