Mothering/nurturing is a vital force and process establishing relationships throughout the universe.

The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else.

So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers.

Mothering/nurturing is a vital force and process establishing relationships throughout the universe.

In fact when Sweet Honey was ten years old it was too big for me to run, and I knew it, but I ran it for another thirteen years because I couldn't convince other people to really do it. And this year, I'm not running it.