Oh, awkward. And she was so sweet about this.
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Asks Atheist Tornado Survivor If She ‘Thanked The Lord’
Happy birthday 14th amendment. My favorite part of this photo is that the little girls don’t seem to even notice color differences. They are all simply giggles and sass.
May 17, 1954: The Supreme Court Rules on Brown v. Board of Education
On this day in 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which says that no state may deny equal protection of the laws to any person within its jurisdiction.
Although the decision did not succeed in fully desegregating public education in the United States, it put the Constitution on the side of racial equality and galvanized the nascent civil rights movement into a full revolution.
Can you name all the key players behind Brown v. Board of Education? Revisit the landmark case with PBS’ The Supreme Court site.You can also learn more about Brown v. Board of Education with “The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow” and explore more events of the Civil Rights Movement with PBS Black Culture Connection.
School integration, Barnard School, Washington, D.C., 1955 (Library of Congress).
(via npr)
Find Morris! #SanFrancisco
Morris is missing. He ran out of the house he was staying in at 17th and Bryant and is now loose in the Mission. If you see him, please, please send anything to my tumblr inbox or email me at foodsco at gmail.
Morris update: some people we ran into saw him running around near 19th and Kansas last night, up in Potrero Hill, but none of them managed to get ahold of him. We searched from 17th to 20th and from Vermont to De Haro and couldn’t find him.
Thank you so much to everyone who’s already reblogged this, and for all the support in general. We’ve notified animal control and we’ll be flyering/searching all day. If anyone has suggestions about other things we should be doing, let us know. And please keep your fingers crossed for little Morris.
Help find Morris in San Francisco.
A friend just sent me this 37 second clip from Animaniacs with a not-so-subtle joke at the very end. It’s amazing. How did they get away with this?!
Congratulations! If you don’t post a photo of your dress soon I will crumple up into a ball of tears.
We are madly in love, blissfully happy and now officially husband and wife!
With cupped hands, girls and women of the BaAka Forest People play the river like a drum, each taking on a different rhythmic pattern that complements the others.
This is rad and amazing. Also, a really fun way to cool off!
Richie Havens has died.
The first time music ever hit me *pow* right in the soul was when I heard this man sing live for the first time. And he hugged me once!
In a reoccurring dream I have several times a month, an ocean wave reaches for me and pulls me in, under, and around. The first time I had this dream a year ago, my body was thrown around and scraped along the sand, and I would wake up panicked right before drowning.
Since then, I’ve learned to navigate the waves by a series of swimming and relaxing as the ocean does it’s thing, and every time I feel more and more masterful in staying unharmed by the waves, even the big ones.
This photo series looks a lot like my dreams, and it made my heart beat faster.
Sir, don’t touch the turnstile with your hand! Ew! Use your hip, unless you want the flu or something.
This morning, Mayor Bloomberg took the 5 train to City Hall. All New Yorkers are encouraged to remain vigilant. If you see something, say something.
This news story of starving baby sea lion pups coming ashore has been ripping my heart out in the past week. No one knows why it’s happening.
Starving Sea Lion Pups Still Washing Up by the Hundreds in California
There’s no indication the ocean plans to stop littering Southern California’s shores with the tiny bodies of starving sea lion pups any time soon.
For three months, these frail animals have been found stranded along California’s waterfront. As of Apr. 4, roughly 1,100 pups have entered marine mammal rehabilitation centers in the area. They likely represent a fraction of the animals in trouble offshore.
“We’re still getting strandings of animals at kind of equal rates to what they had been,” said Sarah Wilkin, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s marine mammal stranding coordinator for the state of California. “We don’t know how long the event is going to go on.”
Read more at Wired
To help, and for more information:
Northern California:
The Marine Mammal Center, Dollar-a-Pound Campaign
Southern California:
Marine Mammal Care Center at Fort McArthur (Los Angeles County)
Marine Animal Rescue (Los Angeles County rescues)
Pacific Marine Mammal Center’s Save A Seal Donations (Orange County)
SeaWorld San Diego, Conservation and Rescue (San Diego County)
Santa Barbara Marine Mammal Center (Santa Barbara County)
Channel Islands Marine and Wildlife Institute Donations (Ventura County)
“Best. Day. Ever.”
Congrats to Nordstrom for so accurately tapping into what today’s marrying couples say they want for their big day. As a “wedding professional”, I give this advert two really big thumbs up. You get my clients.
I’ve seen a lot of things on the subway… this would make me look.
Seen in the subway.
Time to take the subway downtown and ask this man to make me a pair of shoes.
Etsy user Katie Bradley wondered if her tortoises were keeping warm enough when they wandered around the house or garden, so she started making crocheted cozies for them! [via Archie McPhee’s]
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