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Lorene Cary
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Feb 22

Playing with a Broken Toy

When Brent White read Daniel Beaty’s Knock, Knock: My Dad’s Dream for Me to his children, something happened. A tune White had written years ago came back to him. White — trombonist, composer, Assistant Teaching Professor at Drexel, and electrical engineer — had played it at the Philadelphia Detention Center…

BlackLivesMatter

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Playing with a Broken Toy
Playing with a Broken Toy
BlackLivesMatter

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Sep 23, 2022

One Book One Norristown, 9/24

Saturday, 24 September 2022, launches One Book One Norristown featuring The Price of a Child. Thanks and praise for Director Monica D’Antonio, who has created so many carefully crafted elements to promote literacy, community, and conversation around this program and book! Thanks to the Norristown NAACP, and director Angelique Hinton…

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One Book One Norristown, 9/24
One Book One Norristown, 9/24

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Jun 12, 2022

Thank you, Arden!

On Friday, 10 June, 2022, I was privileged to accept Arden Theatre’s Master Storyteller Award. I roamed The Independence Visitor Center with guests for a sparkling outdoor-indoor fête and shared the evening’s honor with (came-through-the-pandemic) Board Chair Bob Elfant, who received the award for Leadership and Service. Special thanks to…

Playwrights

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Thank you, Arden!
Thank you, Arden!
Playwrights

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Dec 22, 2021

The Gospel According to Nana, for Christmastide

This is what I learned in Opera Camp, which is how my family and I referred to the American Lyric Theater’s Composer-Librettist Development Program: find a story that sings when the composer reads it. The story will have been inside her all along, inside the musicians so that they can…

Opera

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The Gospel According to Nana, for Christmastide
The Gospel According to Nana, for Christmastide
Opera

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Oct 23, 2021

Child’s Play with Pinkney

Jerry Pinkney’s legacy: honesty with children about the precariousness of life — and the power of generosity. In 2016, one of my students’ publications, SafeKidsStories.com, spearheaded an initiative that resulted in Philadelphia’s first Jerry Pinkney Day. It was July 19. The Mayor and his Office of Art, Culture, and the Creative Economy led the day. …

Jerry Pinkney

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Child’s Play with Pinkney
Child’s Play with Pinkney
Jerry Pinkney

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Sep 25, 2021

Happy Anniversary, NMAAHC!

The first time I went to the National Museum of African-American History and Culture was its dedication ceremony exactly five years ago. Today, for the anniversary, I went inside where friends from so many centuries welcomed us in. Richard Allen’s money box was the first thing that made me cry. …

BlackLivesMatter

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Happy Anniversary, NMAAHC!
Happy Anniversary, NMAAHC!
BlackLivesMatter

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Sep 17, 2021

Back to School with Black Ice

When I wrote the final revision of Black Ice about my years as a Black girl at St. Paul’s boarding school in its early years of coeducation and integration, I aimed to create complexity through a text that fitted easily, casually, like a great pair of jeans. It’s memoir, not…

Education

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Back to School with Black Ice
Back to School with Black Ice
Education

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Jan 29, 2021

Love called Bob

My husband’s last sermon — Last week when I asked what was the assigned text for him to preach on, my husband, the Rev. Bob Smith, said he’d been trying to run down translations again. Old translations of Matthew 4:19 have Jesus telling fishermen Simon and Andrew that if they follow him, he’ll make them…

Love

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Last week when I asked what was the assigned text for him to preach on, my husband, the Rev.
Last week when I asked what was the assigned text for him to preach on, my husband, the Rev.
Love

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Dec 11, 2020

Let’s Say Black Lives Mattered

Someone has slit in half the 30-foot-long Black Lives Matter banner outside our St. Luke and the Epiphany. For the second time. This summer, four of our #VoteThatJawn interns danced a TikTok in front of that banner. I videotaped them with my phone from across the street. Cars passed between…

BlackLivesMatter

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Let’s Say Black Lives Mattered
Let’s Say Black Lives Mattered
BlackLivesMatter

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Nov 27, 2020

For Advent: Me and Mrs. Jones

Now that my editor-turned-Episcopal-priest husband has retired from our parish and serves in interim assignments, I no longer teach Sunday School. But the liturgical seasons beat out my year anyway. …

Advent

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For Advent: Me and Mrs. Jones
For Advent: Me and Mrs. Jones
Advent

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Lorene Cary

Lorene Cary

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Author, lecturer, playwright

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