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Syreeta Hector is a Mi’kmaq and Black dancer and choreographer who made waves a few years ago with her solo work, Black Ballerina. Her latest work, No-Body, combines contemporary dance and scriptwriting to explore loss and reconciliation.

Mi’kmaq, Black choreographer speaks on new performance about loss and reconciliation | APTN News

Syreeta Hector is a Mi’kmaq and Black dancer and choreographer who made waves a few years ago with her solo work, Black Ballerina. Her latest work, No-Body, combines contemporary dance and…

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Adoptee friends & others impacted by adoption: I'm a librarian planning a display for November (National Adoption Month). These are just some of the books that'll be on display—I'd love your suggestions!

A stack of 12 library books about adoption with spine titles shown. The titles are: 
* Broken Links, Enduring Ties 
* Somebody's Children
* Culture Keeping
* Like Our Very Own: Adoption and the Changing Culture of Motherhood 1851-1950
* Following the Tambourine Man: a Birthmother's Memoir
* Giving Away Simone
* The Violence of Love: Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States
* Choosing Family
* Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of Kinship
* BirthMarks: Transracial Adoption in Contemporary America
* Kinship by Design: A History of Adoption in the Modern United States 
* A Living Remedy

We rightfully talk about Ruby Bridges being the first Black child to integrate an all-white school in the South at 6-years-old. But we don’t talk nearly enough about Lucille Bridges, her mom ✨

Lucille Bridges poses next to a portrait of her daughter, Ruby, walking into a school to become the first Black child in the South to integrate an all-white school