End-of-life caregiving is an ancient practice that’s now re-emerging in the death positivity movement, which urges a shift in thinking about death as natural and not traumatic. Vivette Jeffries-Logan and Omisade Burney-Scott are friends for life—and collaborators in death. Three years ago, when a mutual friend realized she wouldn’t survive […]
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Carter G. Woodson’s West Virginia Wasn’t ‘Trump Country,’ it Was a Land of Opportunity
For young Carter G. Woodson, West Virginia shimmered in the distance, a not-so-far-off land of opportunity. Of his decision to set off for this frontier as a teenager in the 1890s, the future “father of Black History Month” wrote that his home state of Virginia, “like most of the worn-out […]
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