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In 1968, Peter Norman did something unheard of at the Olympics: He stood with his black peers against racism. Being the 60s, this was a big deal. Peter had won the Silver medal in the 200 meters, a close race with two African-Americans, John and Tommie. As they walked up to the podium to accept their medals, Peter made a…
Dear readers, We’d like to introduce you to a friend from across the pond. Alison Rachel, an artist who creates zines and illustrations about self-acceptance, sat down to have a chat with New Sincerity. Read, enjoy, give her a follow on Instagram, and maybe buy someone you love a zine. Photo: Alison Rachel Tell me a little…
Joan Mulholland was at the Woolworth counter for the famous sit-in and in the mix at Civil Rights marches all over the south. She was just a teen in the late 1950s and early 1960s, but she was fiercely dedicated to the idea of a human family. “The worst they could do was kill us,” said Mulholland. And dang did…
They’re part of the Refugee Wilderness Explorers Program, born from a team effort between New Mexico Wilderness Alliance and the Catholic Charities Refugee Mentoring Program. “The summer camps and afterschool programs we offer, while very helpful for the children, are meant to supplement the help that the children will get from their mentors, once they are matched,” Danielle Hernandez, the…
Born a slave in Maryland in 1818, Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Bailey) quickly proved that he was a man ahead of his time. Even as a kid, Douglass was precocious and quick to speak his mind. After the wife of the man who he served taught him the alphabet, he began secretly studying rhetoric and the speeches of famous orators. At…
Norma turned 90 and hit the road. It also was a trip to celebrate the end of her life. How’s that for badass and extremely poignant? It went like this: In the span of two weeks, 90-year-old Norma Jean Bauerschmidt’s husband died AND she was diagnosed with uterine cancer. Instead of hitting the chemo, she said, “I’m hitting the road.” With…
One day, when Mikaela Sheldt was 17, she came home from physics class and began painting on her bedroom walls. She had never considered herself an artist before but her mother had bought her art supplies and something just clicked. This practice stayed in her periphery, but it wasn’t until she graduated from Agnes Scott – a women’s college in…
Most history books forget that Claudette Colvin is an African-American who refused to give up her seat on the bus, nine months before Rosa Parks. It was March 2nd, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, when Colvin paid her fare and refused to get up from the seat for a white woman. She’d been studying Black history in high school that month…
Sure, there are dozens of new podcasts cropping up every day. There are only so many spare hours in each day—so how do you choose?
You may have noticed that astrology is no longer a New Age woo-woo practice. These days, you won’t be surprised to find tarot cards on department store shelves or hear your friends chalking up their life troubles to Mercury in retrograde. Astrology has made real a comeback and some folks are studying why. Bertram Malle, a social cognitive scientist at…
