Alexa Mills
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Washington, DC, United States
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Throwback Thursday: Yes You Can Go a Year Without Buying Clothes! I Did It And So Can You
Don’t give up shopping immediately. It could take you months to prepare for this. → Read More
Photos: How Polaroids helped kids in project housing tell their stories for 50 years
Thanks to Polaroid and a basement arts center, the kids of Newtowne Court in Cambridge, Mass., have been building a photographic monument to their neighborhood since the 1960s. → Read More
How one student used documents and DNA to find her slave ancestors
Like many African Americans, LaKisha David wanted to trace the roots of her family, who for years were documented only as property. Here’s how she did it. → Read More
For decades, teens from Cambridge public housing documented the neighborhood
Using borrowed cameras and a basement darkroom they made photos of daily life that hold poignant memories today. → Read More
Thessaloniki’s food, art, and beauty improve with age
Economic crisis has not diminished Greece’s age-old cuisine. Nor has it made hotels shabby, or obscured the view of Mount Olympus. → Read More
God Help These Bostonians Who Already Miss the City’s Worst Winter Ever
Don't they realize New Englanders are supposed to savor misery? → Read More
Probation officer helps build full, stable lives
Though the Massachusetts Probation Department’s reputation was damaged by last year’s trial that found officials guilty of criminal patronage, the work of probation officer Edith Alexander shows the good work that takes place in the department. → Read More
Five ideas to fix Downtown Crossing - The Boston Globe
How Boston could rethink its most frustrating pedestrian zone. → Read More
Mormon feminists celebrate, contemplate on 40th anniversary of movement - The Boston Globe
The women who launched a feminist Mormon magazine recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of that publication, and the modern Mormon feminist movement, which has become a diverse, robust, national movement. Yet despite the expansion, and many other successes, the women winced between smiles at their celebration. Had they made a difference? → Read More
Artist tattoos East Boston pier for Saturday’s HarborArts Festival - The Boston Globe
Liz LaManche is “tattooing” a dragon on a long and narrow pier in East Boston. On Saturday, the entire length and width of that pier at 256 Marginal St. will be tattooed for East Boston’s annual HarborArts Festival. It is the centerpiece exhibit of the daylong event, and LaManche has been out there working on it three evenings a week for three months. By Saturday, 19 tattoos, representing 19 countries… → Read More
Cedric Douglas uses public art to give voice to neighborhoods - The Boston Globe
Cedric Douglas, whose public art works stretch back 20 years, uses murals and face to face encounters to give voice to the neighborhoods where he has lived. In part because of his work in Upham’s corner, The Boston Foundation and Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative recently named Douglas the winner of a citywide public art competition. → Read More
Cedric Douglas uses public art to give voice to neighborhoods - The Boston Globe
Cedric Douglas, whose public art works stretch back 20 years, uses murals and face to face encounters to give voice to the neighborhoods where he has lived. In part because of his work in Upham’s corner, The Boston Foundation and Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative recently named Douglas the winner of a citywide public art competition. → Read More
Rev. Laura Buchanan Ahart ministers to prisoners at Nashua Street Jail - The Boston Globe
Reverend Laura Buchanan Ahart walked past the grave, directly to the dead man’s mother. She wrapped her arms around the crying woman, spoke to her, and held her for a long time. Then gave the dead man’s father the same kind of hug. Moments earlier, Reverend Laura had said prayers over the body of their twenty-year-old son as he was lowered into the snow-covered ground at Mattapan’s Oaklawn Cemetery.… → Read More
Rev. Laura Buchanan Ahart ministers to prisoners at Nashua Street Jail - The Boston Globe
Reverend Laura Buchanan Ahart walked past the grave, directly to the dead man’s mother. She wrapped her arms around the crying woman, spoke to her, and held her for a long time. Then gave the dead man’s father the same kind of hug. Moments earlier, Reverend Laura had said prayers over the body of their twenty-year-old son as he was lowered into the snow-covered ground at Mattapan’s Oaklawn Cemetery.… → Read More