Outdoor STEM Activities for your Child This Summer Cherie Levent DeVille (Did we end up in your Spam folder? Please mark [email protected] as NOT SPAM to receive our newsletters in your Inbox. You won't want to miss anything! You can send us a message at that address as well.) Summer is here (at least in the northern hemisphere), and it's time for your children to enjoy their time away from a restricted classroom environment if they attend an in-person school. If your children are...
21 days ago • 7 min read
Why Focus on Black History in a STEM Setting? Cherie Levent DeVille (Did we end up in your Spam folder? Please mark [email protected] as NOT SPAM to receive our newsletters in your Inbox. You won't want to miss anything! You can send us a message at that address as well.) In the past couple of newsletters, we have not discussed STEM or STEAM topics; Instead, we have written about history and archiving, especially as related to Black history. Why is that? Why not focus only on STE(A)M...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Carla Hayden, Unknown author - https://www.loc.gov/about/about-the-librarian/, Public Domain, Black Librarians Matter May 18, 2025 Cherie Levent DeVille (Did we end up in your Spam folder? Please mark [email protected] as NOT SPAM to receive our newsletters in your Inbox. You won't want to miss anything! You can send us a message at that address as well. In the last newsletter, I wrote about the importance of the Internet Archive and the need to allow access to information for everyone. I had...
about 1 month ago • 8 min read
Internet Archive: Saving the Past for Our Democratic Future May 5, 2025 Cherie Levent DeVille (Did we end up in your Spam folder? Please mark [email protected] as NOT SPAM to receive our newsletters in your Inbox. You won't want to miss anything! You can send us a message at that address as well.) An digitized image of a from June 2, 1947 found in the Internet Archive during a Juneteenth search. In the last newsletter, I talked about the erasure of Black history. While the United States...
2 months ago • 4 min read
Missing Image From One of Our National Databases Protecting Recovered American Histories from the Restoration of Truth and Sanity by Cherie Levent DeVille 18 April 2025 (Did we end up in your Spam folder? Please mark [email protected] as NOT SPAM to receive our newsletters in your Inbox. You won't want to miss anything! You can send us a message at that address as well.) We released one of our first books, The Path to Juneteenth, as a FREE download! We would love for anyone interested in the...
3 months ago • 6 min read
Problem-Solving Is A Lost Art - Critical Thinking Is The Key 6 April 2025 Our offices moved! We've been settling in but we're back now! Our April calendars are out, and the May one should be out at least a week earlier than the end of the month. We will be putting out a 2025 - 2026 school year calendar set of downloads for educators. These will be great to supplement your children's (or students') education about the contribution of women and POC STEM trailblazers. Scheduled for release:...
3 months ago • 5 min read
(Empathetic) Practice Will Make perfect Progress (Did we end up in your Spam folder? Please mark [email protected] as NOT SPAM to receive our newsletters in your Inbox. You won't want to miss anything!) Technologists especially love to say technology itself is agnostic. While that may be true, it is also true that those who control the technology (and scientific research) control how it may be misused. We continue to accept a new technology or a scientific advance without first wrestling...
5 months ago • 3 min read
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. Frederick Douglass
5 months ago • 1 min read
Fact-checking and Historical Erasure 31 January 2025 (Did we end up in your Spam folder? Please mark [email protected] as NOT SPAM to receive our newsletters in your Inbox. You won't want to miss anything!) In making the calendar products for this month, we came across this photograph in our research. The picture below is not Margaret E. Knight, the inventor. This is NOT the inventor of the flat-bottom paper bag machine! This image is from the 1940s more than likely. We should find out who...
5 months ago • 4 min read