Valentine’s Day Benevolence & Brotherhood – Kalon Women February 2012 Issue

by | Feb 1, 2012 | In The News, Kalon Women Magazine

In February of each year, we celebrate Valentine’s Day. It is an opportunity to ac­ knowledge those people in our lives whom we love. The word “love” is a rich one that has several expansive connotations.  One of the definitions of love is “the feeling of benevolence and brotherhood that people should have for each other.” Frances Wisebart Jacobs and Emily Bissell are two of the many women from our book Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America, who personify this sister­ hood of compassion for other people.

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Music is Love in Search of a Word – February 2012 Newsletter

by | Feb 1, 2012 | In The News, Newsletters

During February of each year, we celebrate Black History Month. We also celebrate the special holiday of Valentine’s Day, when we honor the people we love. Some writers have characterized “music” as love in search of a word. Linking music with Black History month in this month’s enewsletter, we feature African-American women in the music field – singer Ella Fitzgerald, composer Florence Beatrice Smith Price, and pianist Hazel Harrison.

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