Today, English language learners at the Manchester Adult Learning Center in New Hampshire celebrated their year of study with a culture fair. I want to begin with a young father, a member of South Sudan’s Dinka tribe, who performed a traditional dance of the Dinkas at […]
“We are not Nuer or Dinka, we are South Sudan, we are Nilotic (of the Nile.)” Nykhor Paul Please read her story in the Guardian.
Heather Flanders, ELL Specialist at Gorham High School in Maine sent me two stories. She wrote, “I hope you are as moved as I was,” and I was. The stories were written by her students Amna and Megan, their own visions of the next chapter in […]
I first read Ha Jin’s poem, “The Past” as part of the PBS series, Lost Childhoods about children who have survived war. I’ve referred to the poem in my own mind to myself and to readers of The Good Braider about the idea of not only surviving, but […]
“Don’t let anyone define you by what you’ve lived through,” Angelique Kidjo tells the sold out crowd in the Somerville Theatre in Massachusetts where I heard her sing in French, Swahili, Yoruba, English. She sang the song “Malaika.” The song hushed 1,000 people in the theatre. It tells the […]
I started a new page on this site called Ubuntu and it’s about class projects in which students have responded to The Good Braider. I’ve seen extraordinary teachers work with their students to deeply imagine Viola’s life. I am posting some of the stories I hear of how […]
BBC’s Mark Lowen interviews a group of young rebel soldiers of the Nuer tribe who used to steal cows. He listens to their stories about wanting to fight the South Sudanese government led by a Dinka, Salva Kiir. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25872951 The United Nations reports that with the current fighting […]
The New York Times has compiled a chronology and stories-to-date on the current fighting in South Sudan. Today the Times reports that gunmen fired into a United Nations base in South Sudan, one of the UN bases where 65,000 civilians have fled for protection. One half million people […]
UNICEF has created a Facebook page that documents the situation in Juba, South Sudan since fighting began on December 15, 2013. The mother in this UNICEF photo fled from the fighting and had her baby in a United Nations mission hospital in Juba. https://www.facebook.com/unicefsouthsudan
The Diversity Hiring Coalition of Maine has become the leading networking source for employers seeking to hire diverse candidates in Maine as well as candidates from diverse backgrounds seeking employment. Bowdoin College, Hannaford Supermarket, Maine Department of Health and Human Resources, Manpower, Mercy Hospital, and TD Bank are […]
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