Local history is a key element to the Ancestors program. Students, educators and volunteers unite online to support participants and further their research. The Solution Introduce students to a personal past. The Approach History education Genealogy research.

Onika Simon at the Havana Biennial. Lazy days, Leo days? Somehow Onika Simon and I always get going in August. Remember last August when Onika and I started a conversation on art and design, which materialised itself in an exhibition titled Sorry for Laughing. Check out her Berlin based company Spokehub.

Mike is on a Fulbright. Teaching fellowship in rural Malaysia, but we all plan on bouncing through several countries in the region throughout the month of August, coming together at various points along the way. Will be shuttling me first between Singapore and Bali. And bus travel around the Cameron Highlands.

Two summery prints by Tom Wesselmann. Cut-out Nude, Tom Wesselmann, 1965. Shiny Nude, Tom Wesselmann, 1977. One of the main characters is Francesco del Cossa. Sylvie Vartan and Françoise Hardy, photograph by Jean-Marie Périer.

Of Up In the Air Life. An Egyptian Boat with an Italian Name. FLY Up In the Air Life Go. FLY talks to Oneika the Traveller. I was told by one of the many expat Americans I met living in the German capital that if New.

Best Books about Black Hair for Black History Month 2016. For all of you lovers of books and Black hair, over on My American Meltingpot, Hair Story co-author, Lori L. Tharps is curating a great collection of books about Black hair for Black History month.