United in Diversity

United in Diversity is a weekly IG Live show hosted by Taneesh Kaur on the platform @thegalaxy_of_poets. The show is rooted in poetry and dedicated to holidays, traditions, and literature around the globe. Sundays 2pm PST / 5pm EST IG @thegalaxy_of_poets

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  5. Linguistics
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  • United in Diversity is a weekly IG Live show hosted by Taneesh Kaur on the platform @thegalaxy_of_poets. The show is rooted in poetry and dedicated to holidays, traditions, and literature around the globe. It is based on the column United States of Diversity, which Taneesh wrote with Dictionary.com from 2017–2019.

    Each week covers a different holiday tradition, including history, poetry and literature.

    Shows to date:

    2/20/22 Harlem Renaissance: Replay link: https://lnkd.in/edx_vR9K Passcode: A6N#PaCx

    2/13/22 Leonard Peltier: AIM activist, life, legacy, wrongful imprisonment

    2/6/22 Black Inventors

    1/30/22 Lunar New Year

    1/23/22 Burns Night: Scotsman Robbie Burns, 18th c. poet

    1/16/22 MLK: Speech movie matinee; future; how to be better allies

    1/9/22 Universal Letter Writing Week: History of letters, printing press, colonialism and literacy; authors' letters past and present

    1/2/22 Lohri: Indian winter solstice folk festival in North India

    12/26/21 Kwanzaa: Watts Revolt, Kwanzaa, Black Arts