By Anita Peebles Growing up, I, like many children, had body-image and self-image issues. I was the tallest person in my whole grade until 4th grade. I reached puberty early, had bigger feet than the other girls, and I always felt like the odd one out,...
Read MoreBy Marie Campbell Apply now for the Belle H. Bennett House Fellowship! Then In May 2011, I sat down with then-Executive Director of Scarritt Bennett, Rev. Sharon Howell, and explored a dream. I knew that in its college days, Scarritt was a place for women and men –...
Read MoreBy Joyce D. Sohl We have become a society of seekers – seekers of pleasure, seekers of “things”, seekers of stability, seekers of safety. We are also a people that are seekers of the meaning of life and we attempt to find it in a multitude...
Read MoreBy Chandra Allen The Caged Bird Sings is the first in a series of Phenomenal Woman program events and a tribute to Maya Angelou and her victory over her personal childhood trauma. Join us for a dynamic afternoon of poetry, song, and African dance dedicated to those...
Read MoreBy Judith Clerjeune Poets have the amazing gift of curating words in ways that render our most precious, ephemeral, painful and joyful moments to life once again. On the fourth Thursday of every month, Scarritt Bennett Center hosts Poet’s Corner, where a local poet reads their...
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“God, give us leaders! A time like this demands great leaders.” These words have become somewhat of a mantra lately, returning to my thoughts again and again like a wave crashing to the shore only to return back to sea to then later rush back...
Read MoreBy Chandra Allen The Caged Bird Sings is the first in a series of Phenomenal Woman program events and a tribute to Maya Angelou and her victory over her personal childhood trauma. Join us for an afternoon of poetry, song and African dance dedicated to global warriors...
Read MoreBy Joyce D. Sohl Words fill up a page. Words fill up our minds and thoughts. Words fill up the airwaves. Words are everywhere! Words are, for most of us, our common creative medium. We use them to communicate with each other in conversation; we use...
Read MoreBy Chandra Allen As the images of our culture of violence continue to overflow across the media outlets, I am overtaken by the level of violence that is perpetrated within and against communities. I am saddened by our inhumanity towards one another and our inability to...
Read MoreBy Joyce D. Sohl The ending of the year and the beginning of the new is an annual occurrence that causes us to reflect on the endings and beginnings within our lives. Have you noticed that for every ending there is a beginning? Do endings bring...
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