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Marcenia Lyle “Toni” Stone grew up playing baseball with the neighborhood kids, quickly earning the nickname Tomboy Stone. She was the first girl to land a position in the St. Peter Claver Catholic Church boys’ baseball team and went on to become the first of three women to become professional baseball players. In 1953, Stone signed with the professional ‘Negro…
In 2004, José M. Hernández finally went to the moon after 11 attempts – but how he got there is why he’s the most impressive astronaut in the universe. The child of Mexican migrant workers in California, Hernández remembers the moment he realized he wanted to go to space: “I was hoeing a row of sugar beets in a field…
Google is on to something with their new Latino Arts & Cultures in the US exhibit at the Getty in Los Angeles. The internet giant teamed up with dozens of institutions—including the Smithsonian Latino Center and the California State Archives—to feature a large collection of important Latino figures from both the past and present. This is one of the biggest…
Sadie Barnette maybe can’t spin straw into gold, be she did turn the documents the FBI had on her Black Panther dad into a rhinestone-clad work of art. It’s called ‘Do Not Destroy’. Talk about reclaiming identity. Her father was Rodney Barnette, a Black Panther and community advocate. After returning from the Vietnam War he was shocked with the injustice…
Captains Daniel Hall, 30, and Vincent Franchino, 26, met during the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ era—a time when it was forbidden for non-straight folks to disclose their sexual orientation. Congress repealed the policy in 2011 and these Apache helicopter pilots became the first active duty, same-sex couple to get married when they exchanged vows in January. The captains, who were…
Dorothy Day held a terminal belief that no matter one’s politics or religion, they should always be built around empathy and compassion. Pretty much from the get-go this was how she lived her 83 years. Born in 1897, her curious and happily rebellious streak first took the form of civil disobedience in her teens. She hung around the socialist and…
B Corps, for the uninitiated, are essentially for-profit companies certified to have met comprehensive standards of social and environmental criteria, accountability, and transparency. These businesses are collective effort to make voting with your dollar a little easier and more effective. Here are a few B Corps we want to make sure you know about: • Alaska Glacial Mud Co. Before founding Alaskan…
The solar industry is on an upward tick with about 36,000 new jobs expected next year—21,000 of which will be in installation. That means a cleaner environment and well-paid employment. GRID Alternatives, a California-based solar non-profit, is making sure low-income neighborhoods have access to both solar energy and the jobs they create. Their efforts alone have prevented “the release of 340,000 tons of…
Originally from Germany, metalworker Carl Neilbock has spent that last few decades reinvigorating his chosen home, Detroit. “The first thing I saw when I came to Detroit was how those beautiful buildings were just like a woman without jewelry,” Neilbock told Hour Detroit. “I saw the need right away for my trade.” He’s spent time renovating Detroit’s historic Fox Theater…
Dear dogged readers, This week we are thrilled to highlight Alaska-based photographer Brian Adams. Most recently, he culled widespread recognition for his project I Am Inuit – a photography and short story project (now a book) eschewing stereotypes of the individuals who call the Alaskan Arctic home. Being half-Inupiaq himself, Adams gives us an intimate view of what life really is…
