Voracious DPC

Category: Books and Writers

  • Henrietta Lacks by Kadir Nelson Henrietta Lacks “Mother of Modern Medicine” saved and continues to save and extend the lives of millions of people around the world. Ms. Lacks was honored with a portrait by Kadir Nelson to be displayed at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and the National Museum of African American History and…

  • Women Talking About

    “I can’t run out of different ideas. I am different. When can I run out of me?” -Grace Jones

  • Links for the Voracious

    Big Freedia is the Queen of Bounce and one of the most exciting artists in music. So why is she invisible in videos where her voice is featured? Mariel Padilla found out she won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting while in journalism class. The linked article includes this beautiful sentence: “Padilla’s database became a…

  • Merry Christmas!

    On this day in 1854, Harriet Tubman rescued three of her brothers from the lifelong torture of chattel slavery. h/t @BellaBahhs #merrychristmas #harriettubman

  • Junot Diaz on Toni Morrison 

    Junot Diaz and Toni Morrison. Source: NYPL “Besides the fact that you can out-write any motherfucker on the planet sentence by sentence…. that little fact always puts me to bed comfortable, no matter what the hell is going on in the world. I always lay in bed and I’m like, the best writer in the…