May Day: Festival of the Flora or International Workers’ Day?
By Dorothy Lander In recent years, May Day, traditionally a celebration of Flora (the Roman Goddess of Spring and Flowers),
In 1939, Augusta Savage was commissioned to create a sculpture for the New York World’s Fair. Titled The Harp, the work was strongly influenced by James Weldon Johnson’s 1900 song, “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” The sculpture depicted a group of twelve stylized black singers in graduated heights that symbolized the strings of the harp. The sounding board was formed by the hand and arm of God, and a kneeling man holding music represented the foot pedal. Sadly the sculpture was demolished at the end of the fair.
But the image and its symbolism remain as a catalyst to live and act #BlackLivesMatter
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By Dorothy Lander In recent years, May Day, traditionally a celebration of Flora (the Roman Goddess of Spring and Flowers),
by John Graham-Pole Wellcome Collection Gallery: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0028932.html It’s the very first day of January 1967. My first internal medicine internship
By Dorothy Lander In a recent posting on LinkedIn, Tye Farrow introduced his doctoral research and the concept of Architectural
by Dorothy Lander One hundred and seventy civilians, mostly schoolchildren, in southern Iran will never eat another morsel of food.
