What's New? / Quoi de neuf?
Barbara Summers
Barbara Summers edited and wrote the introduction to Open The Unusual Door: True Life Stories of Challenge, Adventure & Success by Black Americans. Ms. Summers is an example of someone who has opened the unusual door to challenge, adventure, and success. The second of five children, she was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and grew up in Hartford, Connecticut. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with honors in her major, French literature, completed coursework for a doctoral degree in French at Yale, and spent time studying at the Sorbonne in France.
For seventeen years, she was a model at the prestigious Ford Agency and was able to draw upon this experience for her groundbreaking book, Black and Beautiful: How Women of Color Changed the Fashion Industry. She also edited the bestselling, I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America and penned the short story collection, Nouvelle Soul. Barbara has taught French, English and journalism and currently teaches English Composition at a CUNY institution. She lives in New York City.
Ms Summers wrote ‘Carole Fredericks: Full Circle’. Read the article here.
Bonjour Chanson
Bonjour Chanson is designed to introduce English speakers to French music and artists. In each episode, Spira shares background information about 5 to 6 artists, he translates the lyrics and then plays the song for listeners. Bonjour Chanson is broadcast in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada on college radio station CJUM.com, Mondays at 3pm. In the US Bonjour Chanson can be heard on radio station KUT in Austin, TX (www.kut.org) as part of 'O’Dark' programming at midnight each Sunday. The full catalog of Bonjour Chanson episodes is available at any time on the web at Public Radio Exchange (www.PRX.com). Enjoy!
Web Resources
The Internet is an exciting place to be these days. New websites, online communities and blogs are showing up everyday. Please join me online at:
New York in French
http://www.newyorkinfrench.net
(search ‘Connie Fredericks-Malone’)
This Ning is for anyone interested in Conversing, Maintaining, Enjoying, Promoting, Discovering French, and those who speak it, in New York.
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