by kitchensisters | May 21, 2019 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – Jacquelyn Dowd Hall. Historian, professor, founding director of the Southern Oral History Program and author of Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America, out TODAY from W.W. Norton.
by kitchensisters | May 16, 2019 | Podcast, The Keepers
On the latest episode of 99% Invisible, a story from San Francisco, and the controversial purging of books from library shelves—or weeding as it’s called in the biz—after the 1989 earthquake. This episode also includes our story The Pack Horse Librarians of Eastern...
by kitchensisters | May 15, 2019 | Hidden Kitchens, Podcast, The Keepers
On the latest episode of The Kitchen Sisters Present… we celebrate National Barbecue Month with stories of C.B. “Stubb” Stubblefield: legendary BBQ man, sauce master, keeper of community, keeper of the flame, archangel of BBQ.”>The Kitchen Sisters Present… we...
by kitchensisters | May 9, 2019 | The Keepers
“When we had nowhere to live, we would spend hours at the library, using what I thought to be the key to the world: library computers.” —Astrid Liden, a high school senior from Eden Prairie, MN, from her college application essay, recently published in the...
by kitchensisters | May 8, 2019 | The Keepers
“Without the library, I would have been lost.” -Jesmyn Ward
by kitchensisters | May 6, 2019 | The Keepers
This month we celebrate 100 years of Pete Seeger. In commemoration of this “singer, rebel, and voice of the people,” Smithsonian Folkways has just released the “definitive anthology” of his music. The collection also includes a 200-page book...
by kitchensisters | May 2, 2019 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – Amazing Grace A staggering film brought to life from the archives. Aretha Franklin’s live recording of her gospel album, Amazing Grace, in 1972.
by kitchensisters | May 1, 2019 | The Keepers
The Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University is the largest labor archives in North America and is home to the collections of numerous unions and labor-related organizations, with over 75,000 linear feet of archival...
by kitchensisters | Apr 30, 2019 | The Keepers
“For years, Joseph Makkos salvaged letterpresses and boxes of rare type from local print shops. He was trawling through Craigslist one day in 2013 when he came upon an ad for a “historic newspaper collection.” Hours later, he had become the proud...
by kitchensisters | Apr 29, 2019 | The Keepers
RIP John Singleton, director, screenwriter, keeper of the culture. From the Washington Post: Mr. Singleton was the first African American and the youngest-ever Academy Award nominee for best director. He wrote the “Boyz N the Hood” screenplay, which was also an Oscar...
