{"id":2258,"date":"2021-03-16T19:24:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T19:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayberthiaume.com\/?p=2258"},"modified":"2025-03-10T13:58:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T13:58:26","slug":"harriet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewriteplacerighttime.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/16\/harriet\/","title":{"rendered":"Harriet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t\n<h2>A poem by Melissa St. Clair:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n<hr \/>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/thewriteplacerighttime.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/service-pnp-ppmsca-54200-54230v-no-restrictions-Harriet-1-189x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" \/>A small summary:<\/h3>\n<p>I share on the behalf of my friend and colleague\u00a0Melissa St. Clair. Melissa and I recently went through a six-month coaching program with Lynne Hurdle-Price called On the Matter of Race where we faced our whiteness in the context of a systemically racist society.<\/p>\n<p>As a part of that experience, Melissa found herself writing poetry in response to several of the prompts posed to us and the rest of our cohort throughout our work. She&#8217;s now compiled them as a book of poetry and a portion of the proceeds are going to <strong>The Harriet Tubman Monument<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The book is available for purchase on Amazon Kindle and paperback. Full details of the book and information on personalized orders can be found at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.paperchaserbiz.com\/homework\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.paperchaserbiz.com\/homework&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615993242678000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFx-M0hr8Sbk57zpQOZKTER_afYVw\">www.paperchaserbiz.com\/homework<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; <a title=\"Harriet\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thewriteplacerighttime.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/16\/harriet\/\" aria-label=\"More on Harriet\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[241,61],"tags":[177,187,157],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Art of Washing Dishes and Other Life Skills. 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