Come Again
For all the upside of visiting Alabama and Mississippi, and there's much to recommend--The history of the black freedom struggle that...
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NICOLE J. BURTON
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Nicole J. Burton
- Mar 1, 2020
- 1 min
Visiting Alabama and Mississippi
As my visit to Alabama and Mississippi ends, I encourage those who've said they'd like to visit the Civil Rights Trail in these two...
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Nicole J. Burton
- Feb 29, 2020
- 2 min
If You Don't Vote, You Don't Count
Before leaving Jackson, I walk down Capitol Street past the site of the 1963 Woolworth's lunch counter sit-ins by Tougaloo College...
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Nicole J. Burton
- Feb 28, 2020
- 1 min
King of the Blues
I thought I'd spend an hour at the B.B. King Museum in Indianola but two and half hours later, I told the cashier in the gift shop, "You...
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Nicole J. Burton
- Feb 27, 2020
- 2 min
Delta Blessings & Curses
Fannie Lou Hamer is one of my heroes. I went with pleasure to her memorial park and gravesite in Ruleville, Sunflower County. Around the...
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Nicole J. Burton
- Feb 25, 2020
- 1 min
COFO Headquarters
To sit in the headquarters where Robert Moses and company coordinated the Summer in Mississippi project known as Freedom Summer 1964 is...
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Nicole J. Burton
- Feb 25, 2020
- 2 min
"Lift Every Voice and Sing"
I was warmly welcomed at Mount Helm Baptist Church in Jackson. The congregation was wearing red for "Heart Sunday" and the sermon was...
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Nicole J. Burton
- Feb 24, 2020
- 1 min
We Shall Overcome Warring Narratives
I tried to find a Saturday morning 12-step meeting but Google maps doesn't speak "Jackson" and I ended up in abandoned lots so I went...
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Nicole J. Burton
- Feb 24, 2020
- 1 min
Jackson Bound
I drove west eighty-five miles to Jackson, the state capital, through rolling terrain, pine forests, and flooded fields. I'm staying...
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Nicole J. Burton
- Feb 23, 2020
- 2 min
The Riddle of Meridian
Mamie and Don of the Century B&B made me a wonderful breakfast and learning about my research, Don offered to drive me to James Chaney's...
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Nicole J. Burton
- Feb 22, 2020
- 1 min
Montgomery to Selma
Heavy rain dampened my enthusiasm to walk about Montgomery but before leaving I visited the Freedom Rides Museum in the old Greyhound Bus...
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Nicole J. Burton
- Feb 19, 2020
- 1 min
Montgomery, Alabama: The Legacy
Researching a new play about a women's civil rights project in Mississippi during Freedom Summer 1964, I thought I'd first visit the new...
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Nicole J. Burton
- Mar 14, 2019
- 1 min
How Yoga Helps Me Write
Preparing for my author event at Bikram Yoga Riverdale this Saturday, I'm reflecting on how yoga helps my writing. Yoga is a moving...
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Nicole J. Burton
- Apr 10, 2018
- 1 min
One Dark Secret Revealed
One week to go and a new version of my play, Swimming Up the Sun, will be shown to the world. Anticipation, curiosity, focus--okay,...
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Nicole J. Burton
- Oct 2, 2017
- 1 min
What is “Adoptionism?”
A pro-adoption belief that people who are infertile are entitled to raise the disadvantaged offspring of the poor. By “infertile,” I mean...
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Nicole J. Burton
- Oct 1, 2017
- 1 min
How Writers Choose Subjects
My first novel, Adamson's 1969, the coming-of-age story of a Englishman in America, will be published next year. For long-form works such...
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Nicole J. Burton
- Oct 30, 2013
- 1 min
Adopted: For the Life of Me (Documentary)
This award-winning PBS documentary by Jean Strauss about adult adoptees searching for their roots will surely move and entertain you....
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Nicole J. Burton
- Nov 12, 2012
- 1 min
UK Book Launch - Chosen: Living with Adoption
A new anthology from the British Association of Adoption and Fostering called Chosen - Living with Adoption will launch this Friday,...
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Nicole J. Burton
- Aug 19, 2012
- 1 min
APC Publishes New War Novel BLOOD CHIT
Apippa Publishing Company published its second title this week. It's an extraordinary war novel, BLOOD CHIT, by Grady Smith. I'm so proud...
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Nicole J. Burton
- Aug 11, 2012
- 1 min
Swimming Up the Sun - The Adoption Play
Join me for the first full reading of Swimming Up the Sun - The Adoption Play at the Kennedy Center, Sat. Sept. 1 at 1:00 PM in the North...
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