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Artists have a new opportunity to network and develop projects aimed at civic good, courtesy of none other than Barack and Michelle Obama, via their foundation. Twenty “community-minded rising stars,” among them “organizers, creators, educators, artists, entrepreneurs, and journalists,” will be selected for the first round of the Obama Foundation Fellowship. They will enjoy expense-paid trips to confabs with all the other fellows. The two-year, non-residential fellowship invites applicants from around the world. The Obama Foundation specifically seeks artists who are at a turning point in their careers, but who curre

Part 7 and final part of book 2 of my story I introduce a different language. In truth, the earlier language I utilized is, in a way, tied to this one. One is the derivative of the other. Over time, the language though both are still similar in some ways, there are vast differences in others. If someone spoke the former language, a native of the latter wouldn't comprehend it and vice versa. And finally, if person who would hear the two languages wouldn't know the difference between the two. I probably won't be using this latter language too much because I personally do not speak it, but when I was growing up, my family would have friends wh

  personally i think there are a few different things that writers (specifically white writers/writers that aren’t part of certain marginalized groups, regardless of what groups they are apart of) need to consider before writing whatever project they might be working on: - if you have plans to write about a race different than your own, what do you actually know about that race? are you willing to go to places other than the internet to find out things you don’t know? when people of that race tell you you’re doing something wrong, will you listen? is your response going to be some kind of rehash of “i’m trying m