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Jazz and rap go hand-in-hand! Watch rappers, a poet, a singer, a flutist, and a saxophonist create magical moments like these in our tribute concert, "Jazz and ...Rap Music," premiering on our YouTube Channel at 7:00 pm: youtube.com/c/americanjazzmuseum Special thank you to our awesome talent: Young Fatha JaySol Nneoma Lanea (Nneoma Lanea Music) Effie (Effie Sings) Amber "Flutienastiness" Underwood Hypocrace DJ Cynsere Robert Tribitt III

Join this local regional writers networking group! It’s great to connect.

Interesting opportunity from the Kaufman Center. https://www.kauffmancenter.org/artful-poetry/

Our first three picture books are coming out this year. LeAnne Bauman Litka's WHAT'S THAT SOUND? and Check out this promo for one of our authors Danielle D. Williams HITCH A RIDE ON THE COLOR EXPRESS Video work by Alexis at X37Adventures

What will you do with all that new creative energy today? Take a walk with A.A. Rubin. Read about how to add imagery and defeat writers block. It’s all on our blog at flying ketchup press dot com.

News from a friend ...

Congrats to the new Poet Laureate. Amanda Gormon.

Local Students reading their work!

Lucy Burns Birth: 1879 Death: 1966 Lucy Burns was born in New York and as a young adult she studied language at Oxford in England where she became involved with Emmaline Pankhurst, the militant women’s rights activist and met Alice Paul another American fighting for women’s rights in England. When she returned to the United States, Lucy and Alice Paul worked together to start and lead the National Woman’s Party. She was one of the Silent Centennials who protested in front ...of the white house during President Wilson’s administration for women’s right to vote, silently enduring the jeers and attacks from the public. Arrested along with others in this group, Lucy endured the beatings and the torture of force feeding when they all went on a hunger strike. During what became known as the Night of Terror when the women were brutally beaten in prison and denied medical attention, she called roll call of the women prisoners until the guards tied her hands above her head to the prison bars and left her hanging that way all night to quiet her. Her fellow prisoners held their hands above their heads in the same position to show their solidarity with her. Lucy was the first woman to speak before the congressional delegates when the 19th amendment, known as the Anthony Amendment after Susan B. Anthony, made its way out of committee and was sent to the House of Representatives. She became the editor for The Suffragist, a newspaper put out by the Congressional Union, a women’s suffrage group which later became the National Women’s Party. #vote #audacity project. Portrait by @gloria_heifner See more

Born: July 24, 1920 Died: March 31, 1998 Born in the Bronx, New York on July 24, 1920 to Russian-Jewish immigrants, attended Hunter College and Columbia Law School taking time away from school during WWII to work in a shipyard. She practiced law working for those on the outside of power who were ignored by societal structures and institutions. Never one to sit quietly by, in 1961 she co-founded the Women Strike for Peace, protesting the nuclear arms race and the Vietnam W...ar and in 1968 she led the Dump Johnson movement to remove President Lyndon B. Johnson from the Democratic ticket. In 1970, Bella won a seat in the House of Representatives by beating the incumbent in the primary and winning the election with the slogan, This woman’s place is in the House ... the House of Representatives! Her most noteworthy contributions as a Representative were, working to put the Sunshine laws into effect under the Freedom of information Act made government, particularly national security policies more transparent; creating the Child Development Act which helped create low-cost day care facilities for the low income; and calling for amending the Civil rights Act of 1964 to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual or affectional preference. While in the House of Representatives, she won the epithet Battling Bella because of her tenacity and confrontational demeanor. Let’s be honest about it: She did not knock politely on the door, New York Representative Geraldine Ferraro said, She took the hinges off of it. After losing her seat in the House, Bella co-chaired the National Advisory Committee on Women in 1978 under President Jimmy Carter, but was replaced when she criticized the administration’s economic policies. As a respected figure in the feminist movement, she addressed international women’s conferences around the world and established the Women USA Fund and the Women’s Environment and Development Organization nonprofit advocacy groups working to give women’s issues more prominence on the United Nations’ agenda. #audacity by @gloria_heifner See more

Alice Paul Born: January 11, 1885 Died: July 9, 1977 Alice Paul was born the oldest child in a Quaker family which influenced her in her dedication to getting a good education and fighting for equal rights. While studying in London, she became involved in the women’s suffrage movement led by Emmeline Pankhurst, learning not to fear the backlash from the extreme dramatic tactics used there. She brought these lessons back to the United States where she broke from the Nationa...l American Woman Suffrage Association to create a more militant group with Lucy Burns, which became the National Woman’s Party, with the purpose of making national change. She led this activist group of women to stage a large dramatic parade in Washington D.C. the day before President Wilson arrived for his inauguration stealing much of his welcome crowd. This militant group of women, continued their agitation of President Wilson by becoming the first group to protest in front of the white house where they stood silently with signs demanding women’s rights while they were jeered at and attacked with thrown objects, becoming known as the Silent Centennials. Many of these women, including Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, were arrested on trumped up charges and held in a prison work house where they were beaten by the guards. When they went on a hunger strike, they were force fed milk and raw eggs through a tube inserted through their noses into their throats. In spite of the torture, they continued their strike leaking word of it to the newspapers who gave them the name, the Iron Jawed Angels, until Wilson was so embarrassed by the bad publicity that he ordered them released. This courageous activity became the impetus for passing the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote. #AUDACITY See more

Born: August 13, 1818 Died: October 18, 1893 Notes from the #audacity art and poetry show including portraits and bios of people who spent their lives getting is the right to #vote. Lucy Stone grew up resolved to be in control of her own life. At age 16 she became a school teacher earning $1.00 a day (much less than male teachers). In 1847 She became the first female college graduate from Massachusetts. Lucy spent much of her life as public speaker for women’s rights and ant...i-slavery at a time when women were not respected for speaking in public. In April of 1849 she was invited to speak for the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. She helped conduct the first petition for the right of women to vote and hold public office in Massachusetts. A woman ahead of her time, she adopted attire, consisting of a loose, short jacket and a pair of baggy trousers under a skirt that fell a few inches below the knees recommended by the health-reform movement to replace the restrictive tight bodice and long skirts of the time. She married Henry Blackwell in 1855 only after he agreed to her keeping control of her own career and finances as well as agreeing to her keeping her own last name. She continued to be involved in both the women’s rights movement and the abolition of slavery throughout the rest of her life, founding the Woman’s Journal in 1870. Portrait and bio by @gloria_heifner See more

Notes about how we marched for equality at the #audacity art and poetry exhibition sponsored by @flying_ketchup_press . Portraits by @gloria_heifner curated by @pollyalice_consultant and directed by @shaiartist 1800s Sojourner Truth, who was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York in 1797, is best known for a speech she made at the 1851 Ohio Women’s Rights Convention titled Ain’t I a Woman. She escaped slavery with her infant daughter in 1826 and in 1828 became the first black woman to go to court against a white man and win the freedom of her son. During the Civil War she gathered supplies for black volunteer regiments and moved to Washington D.C. in 1864 where she helped integrate the streetcars and was appointed, by President Abraham Lincoln, to the National Freedman’s Relief Association to counsel former slaves.

Today is the US election. We will be posting videos and sound bites from the show of poetry and art we curated at a local college @kckccfoundation. We were so honored to share 150 years of woman marching for the right to #vote and for equal rights. Here is a quote from the poem that inspired the show by @gloria_heifner They had the audacity to continue walking forward when the world was desperately trying to push them back. They had the audacity to enlarge the world for every... woman who came after them. They had the audacity to change the world’s expectations allowing us to be so much more than was possible for them. Do we have the audacity to continue what they started? Do we have the audacity to stand in the way of those who are pushing us back into the shadow? Do we have the audacity to speak out to those working to quiet us? Do we have the audacity to demand the same rights and respect for every woman and young girl in our country and in our world? Do we have the audacity See more

We’d like to invite you to this event coming up Saturday, November 7th 9 am to 11 am We are going to make it through the next week and the let’s celebrate with some easy ways to write short fiction together. We have a lot of stories to tell. Stories make the world a brighter place. *****Long Story Short, a workshop with Polly Alice McCann: Crafting a publishable short story isn’t a mystery. Time tested ways your short fiction can be brou...ght to the next level. Allow readers to enjoy your short fiction, from the first line. Join Polly Alice McCann author and editor at Johnson County Library Writers Conference. Find two books of short stories I've edited for sale online, "Tales from the Goldilocks Zone, and Tales from the Dream Zone featuring many styles and authors of short stories." Online event. Register to receive your zoom link. https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com//5f7dce549aadc72f005 POLLY ALICE MCCANN poet, artist. With her MFA in Writing from Hamline University in St. Paul, with an emphasis in poetry and short fiction, her poetry was published internationally in journals such as Naugatuck River, and arc24 in Tel Aviv and elsewhere. Polly’s art has been published in US newspapers and magazines most recently in Rattle magazine. An adjunct writing professor and creative consultant at pollymccann.com, she is also the founder and manager of FLYING KETCHUP PRESS. She says her favorite thing is to tell stories-- other people's, her own-- maybe yours.

Students at the college where we hosted our show of art and poetry on women’s rights. We still have a follow up article coming about it soon as well as some video. Go vote everyone. We all have sacrificed so much for the right to vote. Deliver your mail in votes by hand.

Congrats to our Poet in Residence with this incredibly important work that is starting in Kansas City but we know this good idea will spread. Thank you Hasna Sal for giving a voice to the voiceless with the first national monument to bring awareness to victims of human trafficking. So glad Mayor Quinton Lucas could be there!! And a big crowd too!