Who was Fannie Lou Hamer - 2016
Recently, President Joe Biden posthumously awarded Fannie Lou Hamer the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Learn more about the life of the voting right activist and poet with this 2016 Museum of African American History - Boston and Nantucket talk celebrating freedom heroes.
#freedom #heroes
Today, Supreme court begins to hear arguments in TikTok case.
In this 2023 Boston Public Library talk, environmental justice warrior, Rhodes Scholar, & founder of Black Girl Environmentalist Wawa Gatheru explains the perks and pitfalls of the app.
Full talk: https://bit.ly/3rDsQ02
#tiktok
Jarred Johnson - Transit Matters - A vision for public transportation - 2024
Healey task force prepares to release transportation funding report. GBH News Jeremy Siegel reports.
Refresh your knowledge on the challenges the MBTA faces with this recent talk and TransitMatters Jarred Johnson.
#boston #publictransportation
Macy Lawrence on the mill girls and timetable implementation - 2024
The history of the Boston Manufacturing Company is fascinating for more than one account. Learn more about the mill girls and how animator Macy Lawrence got inspired to create animations for the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation in this talk.
#history #animation #story
#OnThisDay in 1493, Christopher Columbus records in his ship's journal that, on the previous day, he saw three “mermaids" ... in reality manatees.
Learn more about these endearing modern "mermaids" with this 2004 New England Aquarium talk.
#humor #history
As the United States paid its respects to the late President Jimmy Carter, watch again the former president discuss his legacy at the JFK Library Foundation in 2011. In this video, he shares his most painful memory.
#jimmyCarter #history #israel
How the San Francisco earthquake fires spread - Matthew Davenport - June 2024
Los Angeles braces for the worst fire it encounters through history, but it's not the first Californian city facing widespread fires.
In this recent American Ancestors talk, author Matthew Davenport explains how fires spread after the great San Francisco earthquake in 1906.
It's red, plastic, and snaps together: Provincetown's new flood barrier. WCAI-FM reports.
Learn how flood management can be accompanied by a vision with this 2020 Biodiversity for a Livable Climate talk & Janot Mendler de Suarez, of the Pardee Center Task Force.
#resilience
Jehuda Reinharz on Chaim Weizmann, scientist - 2024
How did Chaim Weizmann manage to produce 30,000 tons of aceton each month during WWII? The answer in the video. #trivia
With Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University and Brandeis University Press
Dr. Flannigan on lighting and wild fire
At least three wildfires have burned over 4,000 acres of land in Southern California. NPR reports.
Dr. Flannigan has been studying fire & weather/climate interactions including lightning-ignited forest fires for over 40 years. He shared his insights in this 2023 Cambridge Forum talk.
Birth report shows both progress and continuing disparities in Mass. GBH News reports.
Learn why the opening of the first birth center in Boston is a step forward more equity in maternal health with this recent CommonWealth Beacon talk at GBH with Nashira Baril, MPH.
#OnThisDay, in 1782, the Bank of North America opens as the first American commercial bank in the U.S.
Get a 101 banking lesson with journalist and political-financial expert Nomi Prins in this 2021 Boston Public Library: https://bit.ly/40mLHLc
#money #bank #business
