von Camila Otálora | Mittwoch, Juli 8, 2020 | Get informed
For this week’s idiom, we have picked the common English expression to have a skeleton in the closet. When someone is said to have a skeleton in the closet, it means that they have a secret that could cause shame or controversy if it were to be exposed – the way the...
von Susannah | Montag, Juli 6, 2020 | Get informed
by Heid E. Erdrich Reading by Susannah Ewing This path our people walkedone hundred two hundred endless yearssince the tall grass opened for usand we breathed the incense that sun on prairie ...
von Thom | Montag, Juli 6, 2020 | Get informed
Recently, the Black Lives Matter movement has gained a lot of traction with protests happening in all 50 States of the US and worldwide after George Floyd was murdered — live on camera — by the police. One of the necessary side effects of pointing out...
von Thom | Montag, Juni 29, 2020 | Get informed
Charles Sorley, 1895-1915 Such, such is Death: no triumph: no defeat:Only an empty pail, a slate rubbed clean,A merciful putting away of what has been. And this we know: Death is not Life, effete,Life crushed, the broken pail. We who have seenSo marvellous things know...
von Susannah | Montag, Juni 22, 2020 | Get informed
Langston Hughes – 1902-1967 Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon, I heard a Negro play.Down on Lenox Avenue the other nightBy the pale dull pallor of an old gas...
von Susannah | Donnerstag, Juni 18, 2020 | Get informed
The current racial tensions within and indeed outside of the US are demanding attention from news media and organizations all over the world. We cannot be silent in these times. With this statement we commit to educating ourselves and making our contributions to the...