Tag: history

• Control, Alt, Google

  

  There’s a popular keyboard shortcut <Control><Alt><Delete> that, generally speaking, interrupts or facilitates interrupting a function. For example, if a program on your computer hangs or crashes, you press this popular combination to force the program to close. Today I’m coining a new term, <Control><Alt><Google>. In a nutshell, you can now tell Google to delete the…

  BriAlys

  December 2019

  Tech

  data, google, google maps, gps, history, location, locationdata, maps, privacy, security, youtube

• The 13th

  

  The 13th… as in the 13th Amendment. Have you ever read the exact text? I admit that I have not. Sure, I link to think that I generally know what it is about – it’s what freed slaves. Ava DuBernay, director of Selma, is bringing a history lesson to us all in the form of a…

  BriAlys

  October 2016

  history, Politics

  13, amendment, ava, constitution, history, netflix, politics, slavery, the13th

• The History of Shoes

  

  Are you a shoe fanatic? If so, you’re in for a treat! InStyle Magazine featured an upcoming book by Nancy MacDonald called The Shoe Book. “For centuries shoes have served as a form of expression that communicates to the world who we are or who we want to be.” The Shoe Book explores the history (1770+)…

  BriAlys

  April 2014

  Fashion

  book, history, shoes

• Black History Is

  

  As I travel back to my hotel in a cab along the streets of Budapest, the driver plays the sweet, sultry sounds of Jazz. I tap my fingers, nod my head and think to myself: “Black History Is” and begin to reflect on what Black History is to me: Black History is Music. From blues…

  BriAlys

  February 2014

  Black is Beautiful, Thoughts

  black, history