Bridgette A. Lacy

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Bridgette A. Lacy is an award-winning journalist with a public love affair with food and culture. She authored a column “Morsels” for The News & Observer in Raleigh for many years and writes about food, chefs and culinary trends for The Independent Weekly and the North Carolina Arts Council.

She's now the author of Sunday Dinner, a part of the Savor the South series by UNC Press. Lacy offers an ode to a meal that, notably in the Sabbath-minding South, is more than a meal. Sunday dinner, Lacy observes, is “a state of mind. It is about taking the time to be with the people who matter to you.” Describing her own childhood Sunday dinners, in which her beloved, culinary-minded grandfather played an indelible role, Lacy explores and celebrates th
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Bridgette A. Lacy I write about the things that anger me, the things that fascinate me. I don't really wait for inspiration, I just sit down and start typing. Of course…moreI write about the things that anger me, the things that fascinate me. I don't really wait for inspiration, I just sit down and start typing. Of course, all good writing is rewriting, revising. Personally, I carry index cards in my purse so when something strikes me as a subject I want to explore, I jot down a sentence or two right then. Once I get to the computer, I let all my feelings just spill out on the paper. (less)
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Black Women Pioneers Teach Important Lessons

I walked out of the theater feeling a little taller after watching Hidden Figures, the movie about the army of black women mathematicians who worked at NASA's headquarters in Hampton, Va. The film primarily focuses on three pioneering women, Katherine Goble Johnson, Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan.


 


These sisters handled their business with smarts and grace. The film is set in 1961, the year I was

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