The next Town Hall for paid subscribers will be on Monday, April 27th, at 1pmPT/4pmET. The topic this month will be the role of the hope-holder in the midst of darkness. The link to the Town Hall is below.
Layan Amkieh and her sister, Nour, started Mazikaa Enterprises to create a community space and organize events that celebrate and preserve SWANA heritage. Layan moved from Syria to Saudi Arabia, the UK and the U.S. at the age of two. She studied political science at SDSU and worked in resettlement and immigration advocacy.
Gnuville University is a group that studies Good News and focuses on its beneficial effects on our bodies, our selves, and our communities. They gather every day at 7 a.m. ET to celebrate national good news. Their most active members are a subgroup of members of Daily Kos.
Jewish Family Service's Community of Caring Luncheon is on May 1. JFS helped Carly leave her abuser and keep her kids safe. Carly is one of Project DVORA's clients. The luncheon is a chance to connect with the JFS family and hear about their life-changing work in the community this year.
This year's Doc10 Film Festival runs from April 24 through May 3 at the Davis Theater and the Siskel Film Center. The main slate is unified by a focus on “perseverance” according to senior programmer Anthony Kaufman. Give Me the Ball! and Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie are the festival’s first and last films.
America is celebrating its 250th anniversary this year. America Gives is organizing Good Neighbor Day America, a nationwide coordinated day of in-person and virtual service on May 16, 2026. The initiative is challenging nonprofits, corporations, faith groups, schools, youth groups, public institutions and the like to help make 2026 the largest year of service in American history.
"Normal" is an action comedy set in a small town in the American state of Minnesota. Depictions of violence are common in the cinema, but they are usually linked to the function of violence in societies. "Normal" turns out to be a paradigmatic film of the Trump era because it highlights how money and power have been separated in America.
Alex Honnold is the Free Solo climber. Anthropic's CEO is meeting with Susie Wiles at the White House today. Washington, D.C. is on pace for roughly 42 murders this year, the lowest since at least 1930.
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Thirty years after the start of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), Under the Shade of a Tree I Sat and Wept is a play by Jeton Neziraj. It draws a parallel between the TRC and Kosovo’s Movement for the Reconciliation of Blood Feuds, which saw more than 1 200 blood feuds resolved through acts of public forgiveness in the 1990s.