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Micaela Scholtz

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For Love or Money? Emerging talent, under 30, are making their own way.  One talent, Micaela Scholtz, talks about love, money and about her new magazine Vrouw .

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The Hymn in Her Heart

The Reverend Anne Saunders almost died when she was a child. Scarlet fever ran rampant, afflicting children everywhere, regardless of the color of their skin or how much money their families had. In the late 1930s, most children stayed home to heal, but Anne Saunders was so sick that her father wanted to take her to the hospital. He was told that if he took her to the hospital, she wouldn’t be alive when she got there.


A Stone Suitable for a Great Man: John Edward Bruce

Prolific journalist and author John Edward Bruce laid in an unmarked grave at Oakland Cemetery in Yonkers for 100 years. The James H. Farrell Lodge #34, Prince Hall Masons, recognized the injustice of this important, talented man going unrecognized; they arranged to have a temporary marker placed on his grave.  The lodge is now raising funds for a permanent stone. 


Stewards of Public Health

Most of us probably don’t think much about where our wastewater goes once it swirls down the drain.  In fact, most of us would rather not think about that at all.


Against All Odds

Insurance impacts your bottom line, your future, and is needed most when your life is on the line. Some heroes in our lives are people who are just doing a job that we take for granted, and yet what they do is essential to whether we live and flourish or face ruin. Read about Chris Hamilton’s long journey that led to his becoming an insurance agent.

 


Book Review: White Fragility - Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

My childhood in Yonkers instilled me with a multi-ethnic, multi-racial view of life. My very first teacher, in kindergarten, was a woman of color. Throughout my life I have had friends and colleagues who are people of color. So why do I feel as though it is so difficult to talk about race? Furthermore, why did I have stiff resistance to reading this book?