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Virtuous Spells Love
The Hendersonville Main library celebrated National Reading month on March 4th with an event that included great songs by the performer Virtuous, whose rhymes, rhythms and energetic personality got the crowd of kids and parents moving to the music and taking in her message that children should read, read, and read!
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Joe Talaugon – Author, Chumash Elder
Joe Talaugon grew up in the town of Guadalaupe in the Central Coast of California. His memoir honors his Filipino immigrant father, one of the early manongs, (Early Filipino immigrants to the US,) as well as his experiences growing up in Filipino culture with a man who was his stepfather
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Rise Up! Hendersonville, North Carolina remembers and celebrates Black History Month 2023
Tony Robles speaks to Alyeh Cady and Pam Suber, videos and photos by Isabel Cutler at the Rise Up! Black History Month Event at Union Grove Missionary Baptist Church, Hendersonville produced by Crystal Cauley.
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Why Carl Matters
Why does Carl Sandburg matter? Why does the wind or sun matter? Why do our struggles matter? Do the strings on a guitar matter? If the strings are broken, do they still matter? It all mattered to Carl. Black lives mattered to Carl as he chronicled the brutality suffered by black people at the hands…
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Henderson County School board member Stacey Caskey on unconscious bias in the Henderson County Schools
Tony Robles speaks with Stacey Caskey about unconscious bias for Listen & Be Heard.
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Interview with John Ariatti of Grow Our Own Teachers of Color, part two
Tony Robles interviews John Ariatti for L&BH.
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Interview with John Ariatti of Grow Our Own Teachers of Color Part 1
Listen and Be Heard speaks to John Ariatti of Grow Our Own Teachers of Color at a meeting on black equity in Henderson County Schools. His group works to increase the numbers of teachers of color in Henderson county by providing financial and educational resources to high school students of color who wish to pursue…
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Take Action! Healing the Unconscious Bias in the Henderson County School System with Deborah Ogiste and Crystal Cauley at meeting held at the Unitarian Church in Hendersonville, NC
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Thoughts While Eating Breakfast at the Waffle House in North Carolina
I’m starting to use words like sweetheart and darlin’ and the woman at the counter puts some scrambled eggs in front of me, calls me sweetie The workers stack the Texas toast, scoop the grits scribble down orders and take our dirty plates I sit and sip and scribble in a notepad and think of…
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Remembering Poet Al Robles and his love for Community (1930-2009)
Tony Robles remembers his uncle Al Robles on the occasion of his birthday.
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Happy Birthday Poet Al Robles (1930-2009)
Poet, servant of the people. How you served plates of rice and fish and poetry that stuck to the mind and nourished the heart in a place called Manilatown. Your love for the elders of our community was always true. You served the food of love and compassion amidst those who would come and pluck…
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There’s No Frigate Like a Book (Thoughts on Writing by a recent MFA Graduate)
Emily Dickinson wrote: There’s no frigate like a book. William Shakespeare said, For nimble thought can jump both sea and land. I think the sea is an apt metaphor for our endeavor—our art. Each time we sit down to write, we embark on a journey. We often times do not know what our destination will…
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The Woman Who Looked Like Nina Simone
You caught my eye even with your mask a pandemic badge of the mouth yet your eyes spoke as you moved about the store black woman under the glare of florescent light, wading in your own music, your own rhythm while the canned music played over the thrift store speakers And Nina’s voice comes through…
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Artificial Intelligence (After reading of the man who wrote and illustrated a children’s book using only AI)
I don’t want artificial intelligence, artificial pain, artificial love. Even the artificial flowers about us have grown weary and are dying for a touch of real mist, a drop of real rain. I don’t want artificial light and artificial birds singing and aritificial poems recited by artificial poets. I don’t want artificial love and friendship…
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Plain Old Fashioned Donuts from a Cambodian Owned Donut Shop
With the old fashioned donut in my mind, it rolls 3000 miles and I follow counter clockwise and come to a Cambodian owned donut shop, the place with the best donuts. I buy 4 and the cashier puts it in a brown paper bag. She smiles and I tell her I can’t get donuts like…
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Celebrating Black History at Union Grove Missionary Baptist Church
Saturday Feb. 25, 2pm, Union Grove Missionary Baptist Church 901 Robinson Terrace Hendersonville, NC 28792
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Asian-American/African-American Skin Stretched 3000 Miles From North Carolina to San Francisco
I bring my Asian-American, African-American skin and stretch it, knead it; taught by its tautness the poems written beneath. I am on a journey back to my skin, my San Francisco skin after being away for 4 years. I live in North Carolina, the western part of the state after a lifetime in San Francisco.…
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Airport Music On the Way to San Francisco
Yes, I remember you shooting black and brown people in the street. I remember that the city forgot its people, forgot who it was. But in this area of suspended aeronautic animation, I remember the people, the poetry, the music, the fire of Frisco that made me a poet.
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Manong in Hendersonville, NC
(Author’s note: Manong–A term of respect when addressing an older Filipino man. It means older brother, or elder; one that has lived through the hardships of life) No matter where I go or where I move, a manong will always find me No matter where I’m working or what daydreams creep behind me he is…
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Familiar food for the Latino/a/x Community in Hendersonville
From Mexico, El Salvador, Guatamala And their nopales tongues sing nopales songs and speak nopales poetry and rituals And from their hands come: Chayote Jalapenis Peras Limon Cebolla Banana Yucca Tomatillos Frijoles Arroz In a place called Hendersonville
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The DMV of Books
In Charles Bukowski’s novel, Post Office, the opening line reads, “It began as a mistake.” I’d come across Post Office while working as a donations clerk and cashier at a very well known thrift store—part of a thrift store chain that stretched its thrift store goodness from coast to coast. Donations poured in daily, everything…
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Listen and Be Heard TV: Crystal Cauley of the Black History Collective of Henderson County Speaks at the People’s Museum on Black History
Listen and Be Heard TV: Crystal Cauley of the Black History Collective of Henderson County Speaks at the People’s Museum on Black History for MLK Day 2023.
