I would watch a movie about this woman.
Jill HasdayOn this day in 1864, Maggie Lena Walker was born to enslaved parents. She became the 1st woman to charter a US bank. The St. Luke Penny Savings Bank helped African American customers in the South help themselves when public institutions would not. #WeTheMen www.womenshistory.org/education-re...
This unexpectedly reminded me of the time I missed the big 1995 Vermeer exhibit in DC because Newt Gingrich wanted to cut social services so badly that he shut down the government.
BassanoVermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer
Why is Trump spending our money this way, with no pushback from the Republican-dominated Congress? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...
The No-Bid Contract That Is Turning Washington’s Reflecting Pool Bluewww.nytimes.comSounds like a great program to encourage reading.
John FreemanBarrow-in-Furness in Cumbria has been officially declared the UK’s first Comic Book Town, marking a significant milestone in a year-long initiative led by The Lakes… https://downthetubes.net/barrow-in-furness-declared-uks-first-comic-book-town/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
“Defacing” seems inadequate to describe what they did to this mural, which the artist had to repaint. But the vandals very deliberately covered over Ashe’s face, which seems significant. 1/3
WTVR CBS 6 News Richmond, VirginiaA federal judge ordered a white nationalist group and some of its members to pay hundreds of thousands in punitive damages after defacing a mural of Arthur Ashe in Richmond in 2021.