Fresh Idea Health Grant

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is providing “Fresh Ideas” grants to support community-based approaches to health and health care problems. Priority is given to projects serving hard-to-reach people, including at-risk teens.

Native American Storyteller Joseph Bruchac Highlights Etheridge Knight Festival of the Arts

Thursday, April 3 at 7:00 pm DVD Showing of Poet Etheridge Knight Reading at the 25th Anniversary of Broadside Press. Earth House Coffee & Books, 237 N. East Street. Located in the Lockerbie Central United Methodist Church on the corners of East and New York Streets. Free and open to the public Friday, April 4… Read More Native American Storyteller Joseph Bruchac Highlights Etheridge Knight Festival of the Arts

new book: Daughter Denied

PRWeb reports that Playwright Alretha Thomas’ first novel, Daughter Denied, will be out in May, 2008.  The book is the tale of a dysfunctional urban family told through the eyes of the 7 year old daughter, Earnestine. excerpt