Adult

Posted about 5 years ago by Meldon Jenkins-Jones

Posted in Adult, Families, Reading Recommendations, Teens | Tagged with children, Chromosomes, Down syndrome, Genetic, health and wellness, law, Law Library, medical injustice, mental health, teens, undiagnosed, X and Y chromosomal variations

In 2012 the State Legislature passed HJ216 2012 which designated May as “X & Y Chromosomal Variation Awareness Month”.   Genetic Disorders X & Y Chromosomal Variations are genetic disorders. […]

Posted about 5 years ago by kathryn Coker

Posted in Adult, Events

In 2004, the Virginia General Assembly designated May 14th as Colonial Founders Day.  So, I decided for this blog to give a short historical overview of Jamestown and then launch […]

Posted about 5 years ago by Meldon Jenkins-Jones

Posted in Adult, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with african-american, Apartheid, Black History, Blood, book recommendations, children, Eugenics, Experiment, Genocide, injustice, Law Library, Medicine, Organ Trafficking, Race, Racism, Red Market, Transplant

Great strides in medical history have often been made as a result of research and experimentation, and the first human successes were arguably the result of successful experiments, often on […]

Posted about 5 years ago by Phil Shepard

Posted in Adult, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with celebrations

There are holidays and observations every day of the month – so many reasons to celebrate. I’m not saying there should be cake every day, but I’m not saying there […]

Posted about 5 years ago by Phil Shepard

Posted in Adult, Book Reviews, Reading Recommendations

April is both National Poetry Month AND National Pet Month.  What better way to celebrate than with poetry about dogs, for dogs, and by dogs.  Check out the Academy of American Poets and The Poetry Foundation […]

Posted about 5 years ago by Lisa Crisman

Posted in Adult, Book Reviews, Children's, Families, Reading Recommendations, Teens

Spring is here, bulbs are popping, trees are budding and the birds are busy! Working with seeds and plants is a great way to relieve stress and to focus on […]

Posted about 5 years ago by Laura Price

Posted in Adult, Children's

With a great-great-grandmother named Margaret Mary Murphy, it was a sure bet that I would someday see Ireland. Even though over 30 years have passed since I visited, the overall […]

Posted about 5 years ago by kathryn Coker

Posted in Adult, Events | Tagged with 19th Amendment, Alice Paul, Angela Dodson, Doris Stevens, Forced Feeding, Jailed For Freedom, Kate Heffelfinger, law, Law Library, Lucy Burns, Maud Powell Jamison, Meldon Jenkins-Jones, National Women's Party, Night of Terror, Occoquan Workhouse, Oliver W. Hill Book Club, Pauline Adams, Silent Sentinels, Turning Point Suffrage Memorial, Women's Suffrage, Women's Suffrage Banners, Women's Suffrage Prison Special, Woodrow Wilson

Lorton, Virginia’s Occoquan Workhouse,built in 1910 and originally used to hold prisoners completing short sentences for offenses like disorderly conduct, played a key role in women’s suffrage history. National Woman’s […]

Posted about 5 years ago by kathryn Coker

Posted in Adult | Tagged with Addie Waited Hunton, African American Suffragist, Law Library, Natioanl Association of Colored Women, Suffragist, William A. Hunton

In preparation for Black History Month, I did a little research and uncovered some fascinating people like Addie Waites Hunton, an African American suffragist, activist, writer, political organizer, and educator.   […]

Posted about 5 years ago by Laura Price

Posted in Adult, Children's, Families, Teens | Tagged with books for adults, children's books, Lunar New Year, picture books, teens, Year of the Ox, young adult

It's the Year of the Ox! Celebrate the Lunar New Year with a new book!