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In the early 1970s, Ringgold abandoned traditional painting and began to experiment with quilting. These quilts, created in collaboration with her mother Willi Poesy, combined image and hand written text in open-ended narratives she called “story quilts.” These works merged traditional craft and fine art techniques into a hybrid form with stories centered on the importance of family, roots and artistic collaboration. We Flew Over the Bridge relates directly to Ringgold’s memoirs, published in 1995 and sharing the same title. The bridge depicted in this work is the We Flew Over the Bridge George Washington Bridge in New York City. Ring1997 collagraph, Collection of the Springfield Art Museum. gold has lived near the bridge almost her entire life, either on one side or the other. The bridge, with the image of a home beneath, reflects her family roots. As she has said, “I have been looking at the George Washington Bridge and traveling on it all my life, so that its beauty is very familiar to me.” In addition to her memoirs, Ringgold has also written a number of children’s books.
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Faith Ringgold is a painter, writer, speaker, sculptor, activist and performance artist. Her early paintings and posters, from the mid to late 1960s, were imbued with strong political messages in support of the civil rights movement. She demonstrated against the exclusion of black and female artists by the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in 19681970, and cofounded a group for African American women artists called “Where We At” in 1971.
by Alison Burke Most people know that their credit score will affect their ability to take out a loan, rent or own a home, and may even be factored into hiring decisions. But recent research from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve from Geng Li, Jessica Hayes and Economic Studies Fellow Jane Dokko suggests that it could actually offer important insight into another aspect of your life: who’ll you end up with romantically—and how long you’ll stay together. Here’s why that’s the case, in 4 areas: 1) People with high credit scores are more likely to form committed relationships 2) Your relationship is more likely to last if you have higher credit scores 3) The longer you and your partner are together, the closer your credit scores will get 4)…but your partner’s financial influence won’t last if you split According to the researchers, your credit score is a pretty good indicator of how likely you are to actually couple in the first place. Individuals with high credit scores are more likely to form committed relationships than other similar individuals, and when compared to the the highest-scoring singles, those with the lowest credit scores are about 30 percent less likely to form a relationship in a given year. If you’re looking for clues as to whether you and your new significant other will be in it for the long haul, your credit scores might be a good indicator. The researchers found that when both partners enter a relationship with high scores, the odds that they’ll stay together increase. Read the full report here: http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brookings-now/posts/2015/10/how-your-creditscore-could-predict-the-success-of-your-relationship-in-5-charts
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Springfield NAACP will hold their 2016 Freedom Fund Banquet May 20 Springfield, MO— The Springfield NAACP will hold their 2016 Freedom Fund Banquet May Cheryl Clay 20, 2016, at the Diamond Room located in the Knights of Columbus Hall, 2340 W. Grand. Tickets are $40.00 banquet only and $60.00 banquet and a years' memberContinued on page 2
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MSU Multicultural Resource Annex named after Mary Walls By Cortlynn Stark, Reprinted from The Standard News
Springfield, MO— In 1950, Mary Jean Price Walls was denied admission to Southwest Missouri State College, now Missouri State University, because she was African American. On Friday, the new Multicultural Resource Annex was named after her. Mary Walls applied for admission at SMS after graduating salutatorian of her high school class from Lincoln High School. At the time, Lincoln was strictly an African American school.
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She waited for months to hear back from the university but never received a response.
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RAGTIME - The story of a daring young Harlem Musician Springfield, MO— At the dawn of a new century, everything is changing…and anything is possible. Set in turn-of-the-century New York, RAGTIME tells the stories of an upper-class wife, a determined Jewish immigrant, and a daring young Harlem
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musician – all three united by their desire for and belief in a brighter tomorrow. Their compelling stories are set to one of the theatre’s richest and most glorious scores, by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens. Continued on page 7