The tools we need to do our jobs

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If we want to do our best, we need to be our best on our jobs. And that mean training. So, here are two workshops – sponsored by the Chicago Headline Club – next week that you don’t want to miss. 1. On Tuesday, Jan. 24th there will be a workshop looking at the latest [...]

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Written by on January 19, 2012

We gain so much wading in the water of each other’s cultural experiences–Adventures in Multicultural Living

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I was so impressed to watch my children gently, ever gently, patiently, without judgment or consternation, lean over the kitchen table with soft #2B pencils pouring over the music scores with my father. The girls explained to him that in spirituals, a lot of the songs are coded instructions on how to escape to freedom, for example, in “Follow the Drinking Gourd,” the drinking gourd refers to the Big Dipper and the North Star; in other songs, the River Jordan represents the Ohio River, the last river to cross before reaching freedom in Canada; and Canaan means Canada because once slaves made it to Canada, they could not be sent back, as they could from the northern states.

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Written by on January 19, 2012