Two KU graduates receive Langston Hughes Creative Writing Award | Arts & Culture

Kayla Cook and Jenea Havener are this year's recipients of the Langston Hughes Creative Writing Award, given to two writers in the Kansas City area each year to encourage others to follow in Hughes' footsteps by telling their stories through poetry and prose, the Kansas City Star reports. "My name in the same sense as [Hughes]—that's crazy," Havener, who grew up in Lawrence, tells the Star. "I remember as a kid, we had books of poetry in my house, and I really loved the Langston Hughes poem 'Harlem.' I wouldn't have been able to tell you as a kid what it was called, but I love that poem. I thought the descriptions in that poem were so juicy and so true." Cook, who graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in English, writes about her experiences growing up as a black woman in Kansas. "We are told as Black people that our voices do not matter," she says. "As a Black community, we have struggled, but we are a community. And we are thriving in a country that we were never intended to. So I hope people take away that we need active change." Havener, who graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree Read the Entire Article


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Community Foundation Celebrates 100 Years of Local Impact by Looking Ahead ...
Foundation: Lancaster County Community Foundation

In 2024, Lancaster County, Pa., will celebrate the 100th anniversary of a group of "visionaries" who "came together to shape a better future for Lancaster County," says Sam Bressi, president and CEO...more

Golfers Support Swings Fore Strings to Raise Money for Student Music Program

If you're looking for a good time while raising money for a good cause, try golf. The Salvation Army in Virginia Beach held its annual " Swings Fore Strings" fundraiser on Saturday, hoping to...more

Self-Love Comes At A Cost: Zainab Patel, Entrepreneur &Amp; Trans Activist

"Many of us, at some point in time, have been told in our lives that we are unloveable. By our parents, partners, husbands, children, friends, or society," says transgender activist Zainab...more

Grant Funding to Bolster Operations at 17 Southern Indiana Nonprofits
Foundation: Community Foundation of Southern Indiana

"When you see the kids interacting and them building communitythat's what it is," says Camp Quality Kentuckiana executive director Eddie Bobbitt. "It's bigger than fishing and pie fights." The...more

Madison Visionary Partners Awards 5 Community Impact Grants

The Alzheimer's Association's Forget-Me-Not program has a new toy in its arsenal: fidget blankets. The Madison Hospital in Alabama has received a $2,500 grant from the Huntsville Hospital...more

Maui Adult Day Care Centers: Caring and Trusted Resources for Maui'S Family Caregivers and Kupuna
Foundation: Hawaii Community Foundation

If you're in your 60s or older and looking for adult day care in Maui, you're in luck. The nonprofit Maui Adult Day Care Centers lost its West Maui Center in the Lahaina fire last August, but...more

U.C. Berkeley Ai Alumnus Extends Invitation to Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg to ...

Peter Kessler graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a degree in chemical engineering, and now he's working on an AI invention that "stands on the brink of the educational...more

How This Big Arts Show Across 18 U.S. Locations Can Help Health
Foundation: Kresge Foundation, Tow Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies

"There's no real reason why the arts, health, and science shouldn't be much more highly integrated," says Lear deBessonet, a Tony-nominated theater director and co-director of the One Nation One...more

Portsmouth Abbey School Junior to Travel to Washington, D.C., to Compete in the Poetry Out ...

A 16-year-old from Rhode Island is headed to Washington, DC, in April to compete in the Poetry Out Loud national finals. Jennifer Shon, a junior at Portsmouth Abbey School, won the state...more

Sowela to Offer Evidence-Based Culinary Medicine Program -

A Louisiana community college is adding a new concentration to its culinary arts degreeand it's all about health. Sowela Technical Community College's new Culinary Medicine Concentration blends...more





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