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25th Annual African American Living Legends Series - Jessica Smith performs
No full textVocalist Jessica Smith performs at the 25th Annual African American Living Legends Series event
26th Annual African American Living Legends Series - Jessica Smith
No full textVocalist Jessica Smith performs Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing at the 26th Annual African American Living Legends Series event
26th Annual African American Living Legends Series - Jessica Smith
No full textVocalist Jessica Smith (left) performs at the podium as service award receipient Robin Petgrave (obscured) and event honoree Natalie Cole (far right) watch from on stage
26th Annual African American Living Legends Series - Jessica Smith
No full textVocalist Jessica Smith performs Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing at the podium as dignitaries, including Supervisor Yvonne B. Burke (left), actor and Master of Ceremonies Steve Harris (center), and County Librarian Margaret Donnellan Todd (far right), stand on stage
Jessica Smith and Blaine Surber in a Joint Recital
Full text linkThis is the program for the joint senior musical theatre recital of mezzo soprano Jessica Smith and tenor Blaine Surber. Ms. Smith was accompanied on the piano by John Alec Briggs, and Mr. Surber was accompanied by Kristen La Madrid. This recital took place on March 19, 2015, in the McBeth Recital Hall in the Mabee Fine Arts Center
26th Annual African American Living Legends Series - Jessica Smith and Natalie Cole
No full textVocalist Jessica Smith (left) performs Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing as event honoree Natalie Cole (right) listens intently
26th Annual African American Living Legends Series - Jessica Smith and Natalie Cole
No full textVocalist Jessica Smith (left) performs Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing and is watched by event honoree Natalie Cole (right)
Jessica Smith: Suffragette, Author, Activist, and True Believer
Full text link[ABSTRACT ONLY; NO FULL TEXT] This paper explores the life and works of Jessica Smith, a prolific American Communist activist, writer, and editor from the early 1900s to 1983. An avid supporter of the Soviet Union and married to two notable American Communists (Harold Ware and John Abt), Smith wrote several accounts on life in pre- and post-World War II Soviet Russia (Women in Soviet Russia, Soviet Democracy and How it Works, People Come First). She also served as editor for two long lived pro-Soviet publications, Soviet Russia Today and The New World Review and was heavily involved in the American-Soviet Friendship Council. Smith is examined within the typological framework of American Communists provided by Dr. Aileen Kraditor in her text, "Jimmy Higgins" The Mental World of the American Rank and File Communist 1930-1958. Her writings are compared to thematically similar works from Larry Lesueur (Twelve Months that Changed the World). Despite her contributions, Smith is largely absent from the historical record. Thus, this paper considers the historiography of the subject, establishes a foundation of study, and addresses the question of Jessica Smith's motives: Was she a true believer in the cause of Socialism, or was she a propogandist of the Soviet Union? The current state of research indicates that though there was opportunity for Smith to be trained as a Soviet agent (having lived in the Soviet Union for over five years) her writings and actions do not support this claim. She was critical of Soviet leadership in high profile crises, such as the 1956 Hungarian Uprising. Despite, or perhaps because of her direct knowledge of the Soviet Union and her peoples, Smith remained a stalwart Communist, idealistic and committed to international peace unto her death. She therefore presents an important case study on American Communism, Feminism, and the Cold War.by Chief Sidna
Jessica Smith, Armstrong State Women\u27s Cross Country Earn USTFCCCA Academic Honors
Full text linkJessica Smith, Armstrong State Women\u27s Cross Country Earn USTFCCCA Academic Honors. The Armstrong State University women\u27s cross country team earned academic honors from the US Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association, announced this week.vvv
In the “War on Coal,” the industry can be its own worst enemy
No full textCoal has played a major role in U.S. energy production for decades, but environmental concerns have led to the rise of what some commentators have dubbed the “War on Coal”. Now, new regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will essentially block the construction of new coal power plants, and force existing ones to use expensive carbon capture technology, meaning that coal will continue to lose ground to natural gas in U.S. energy production. Jessica Smith Rolston writes that the coal industry’s future-oriented advocacy of carbon capture technology and opposition to the EPA’s new regulations undermines its arguments that coal-fired energy can be ‘clean’ in the future
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