I’ve created a Google Group for participants of Sprint’s Power Vision Ambassador program. To join just click the link and tell me the name of your blog, or point me to where you blogged about joining. What do you think Sprint is trying to do with the program? How did they find your blog? I’m not really sure where this is heading, but it thought it would be interesting to hook up with some other participants.
I figure after a number of people join I may put together a directory of participants.
This call I’m helping organize for YP4 will be really interesting, one of our fellows is a published author.
We are excited to celebrate Black History Month with a special Town Hall Meeting conference call:
Strides for Social Justice:
The Struggle for Educational EqualityA discussion about past struggles for educational equality
and the lessons we can apply to our campaigns for social change today,
led by Young People For Senior Fellow and Author Paul KendrickTuesday Afternoon
5 PM ESTPaul Kendrick is a Presidential Administrative Fellow and graduate student at The George Washington University. While an undergraduate, Paul served as presdient of the campus NAACP chapter. Paul is the co-author of Sarah’s Long Walk: How the Free Blacks of Boston and Their Struggle for Equality Changed America. Read a review of Paul’s book here.
E-mail sthomas at pfaw.org to register now. It’s not too late!
The nonprofit organization that runs the Heurich House, which I’ve written about a couple times before, has until March 15 to raise almost $230,000 or risk defaulting on the loan they used to purchase the property.
CNN.com has picked up an excellent AP story about the house, which now appears as the top link in the Travel section. I’ve already donated and encourage everyone who values DC history to make a donation too. Not only is the home a well preserved example of Victorian Architecture, it also contains the wood carvings of my friend Mike Grass’ great grandfather. See BrewmastersCastle.com for more information or to donate online.
Ok, so I am really excited about this. As of today, the Carter G. Woodson House, located just feet from where I live in Shaw, is now owned by the National Park Service. The NPS plans to renovate the home and several adjacent homes (seen to the right) to build a visitors center and open the house to the public. As I understand it, this has been a long time coming. The buildings have been vacant for many years, and Dr. Woodson’s story is one that deserves to be told. This news from Shaw Main Streets:
Join National Park Service Director Fran Mainella as she officially announces the Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site as the 389th unit of the National Park Service system, on Monday, February 27, 2006 at 1:00 PM in front of the Woodson House, located at 1538 9th Street, NW. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes-Norton and Executive Director of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Sylvia Cyrus Albritton, will present remarks. The public is welcome, and no reservations are required.
Dr. Carter G. Woodson successfully established African American history as an academic discipline and fought to counter the commonly held belief that African Americans had made little or no contribution to the development of the American national narrative. In 1926, Woodson established Negro History Week (now African American History Month). In 1915, this Harvard-trained historian and DC Public Schools teacher, founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH). In 1922, he moved his operations to 1538 9th Street, NW, Washington, DC, living and working in that row house until his death in 1950.
First introduced in 2001 by Washington, DC, Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton and signed into law December 19, 2003, by the United States President, Public Law 108-192 authorized the National Park Service to take ownership of Dr. Woodson’s Washington, DC, located in the historic Shaw neighborhood of Washington, DC. This area has been called the “Heart of Black Washington” and numerous buildings of historical and cultural significance are located within walking distance.
… The nickname, of course, derives from the zoo’s much-quoted description of the panda at his July 9 birth — he was the size of “a stick of butter.” But it was two local bloggers, Catherine Andrews and her boyfriend, Tom Lee , who actually came up with the moniker. On Aug. 2, Andrews posted an entry on local blog collective DCist.com that she casually headlined “Butterstick’s a boy!” Within days, blogger friends started actively promoting the name; within weeks, it had entered common parlance.
“I thought it was cute, but I didn’t think it would develop this weird cultlike following,” says Andrews. (A proposal by our snarky Style colleagues to call him Parkay never seemed to catch on.) Despite a fervent write-in campaign for Butterstick, the cub was officially named Tai Shan when he turned 100 days old. But now the zoo seems to have softened. …
> WaPo Sunday 2/26 Reliable Source
I’ve been fiddling around with a new tool by Google called their Page Creator that allows you to easily create web pages, upload files and photos, and publish it to the web through a fancy interface that lives in your browser. For free. It makes regular websites as easy as blogs. Count me impressed. It’s also a hell of a lot easier to use than the fancy expensive CMS’s from the big vendors that I’ve used, although without many of those companies extra features.
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