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Tamara Winfrey Harris
Tamara Winfrey-Harris is an American author, columnist and speaker. Her writing topics include politics, Popular culture, pop culture, Race (human categorization), race, and gender. Early life and education Winfrey-Harris is from Gary, Indiana. She received a BA from the Greenlee School of Journalism at Iowa State University. Career Winfrey-Harris' first book, ''The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America'' was published in May 2015. The book won the Phyllis Wheatley Award, the IndieFab Award, and Independent Publishers' Living Now Award and IPPY Award. Her next book, ''Dear Black Girl: Letters From Your Sisters on Stepping Into Your Power'', is planned to be released in March 2021. Winfrey-Harris has spoken on NPR's ''Weekend Edition'' and Janet Mock's ''So Popular'' on MSNBC. In 2018, she delivered the keynote address at the Arts Council of Indianapolis' Let's Eat Conference about the business of art. She is the Vice President of Comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary, Indiana
Gary is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States. The city has been historically dominated by major industrial activity and is home to U.S. Steel's Gary Works, the largest steel mill complex in North America. Gary is located along the southern shore of Lake Michigan about east of downtown Chicago, Illinois. The city is adjacent to the Indiana Dunes National Park, and is within the Chicago metropolitan area. Gary was named after lawyer Elbert Henry Gary, who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation. U.S. Steel had established the city as a company town to serve its steel mills. Although initially a very diverse city, after white flight in the 1970s, the city of Gary held the nation's highest percentage of African Americans for several decades. As of the 2020 census the city's population was 70,093, making it Indiana's ninth-largest city. Like other Rust Belt cities, Gary's once thriving steel industry has been significantly affected by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
