Tanya Ballard Brown's Links

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Editor, Digital News, NPR
Washington, DC

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- The Picture Show Blog @ NPR: Obsolete Occupations
- NPR
- Quote: ...while communication and other things are now faster, some of the technological advances that we enjoy may have come at the cost of interacting with people -- the elevator operator, the iceman and the milkman. Added: March 11, 2010 at 9:09AM EST
- Tags: U.S., history
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- WASP: Women With Wings In WWII : NPR
- NPR
- Tanya said: About 1,100 young women flew military aircraft stateside during World War II as part of a program called Women Airforce Service Pilots — WASP for short. These civilian volunteers ferried and tested planes so male pilots could head to combat duty. The groundbreaking program lasted only two years and nearly fell through the cracks of history.
  Added: March 11, 2010 at 9:06AM EST
- Tags: U.S., history, WWII, women
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- Interactive -- The Jobs Of Yesteryear: Obsolete Occupations
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- Quote: As computers and automated systems increasingly take the jobs humans once held, entire professions are now extinct. Added: March 7, 2010 at 11:27PM EST
- Tags: Business, jobs, history
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- Deep Grief: The Loss Of A Child Leads Bereaved Parents To Create Living Memorials : NPR
- NPR
- Tanya said: NPR national correspondent Linton Weeks and his wife, Jan, lost their two sons, Stone and Holt, in a highway crash in July 2009. In memoriam, they created The Stone and Holt Weeks Foundation.
  Quote: When your child dies, the immensity of still being alive strikes at your core. Your focus shifts back and forth between the grief you have and the gift you had. Added: February 9, 2010 at 12:01PM EST
- Tags: grief
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- Timeline: Sparking A Revolution By Sitting Down : NPR
- NPR
- Tanya said: The movement that led to sit-ins all over the country and contributed to the dissolution of segregation began with four college students in Greensboro, N.C. On the 50th anniversary of the Woolworth's sit-ins, this timeline highlights their exponential growth and impact on segregation law. Follow the events here and listen to the students' and scholars' reflections from the documentary February One.
  Added: February 1, 2010 at 1:13PM EST
- Tags: Local, civil rights movement, history
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- 50 Years Later, North Carolina Sit-In Site Becomes Museum : NPR
- NPR
- Tanya said: Fifty years ago, on Feb. 1, four black college students sat down at a whites-only Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., and asked to be served. Their action sparked a movement that helped lead to the integration of public places. Now the building that housed that lunch counter is a civil rights museum, opening Feb. 1.
  Added: February 1, 2010 at 1:07PM EST
- Tags: Local, history, civil rights movement
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