Friday, November 20, 2015

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe freedom of the press

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So CNN suspends a reporter for correctly tweeting out that by passing a bill that would refuse to allow Syrian and Iraqi refugees into th...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

Bert Williams: America's first Black superstar in blackface

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Bert Williams 1874-1922 "I have never been able to discover that there was anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I ...
Saturday, September 19, 2015

Cut your grass and the rest will follow!

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I recently saw this post on facebook from a Black man: "Rant about black folks who want everything but refuse to do the basics for t...
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Saturday, September 5, 2015

The season of the witch

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  Her friend Chrysanthemum Applewhite, with her sultry lips and pale skin, had finally let her hair grow out. Solstice thought it looked pr...
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Tuesday, September 1, 2015

We got 99 hate groups but Black Lives Matter ain't one

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"MARTIN LUTHER KING AT COMMUNIST TRAINING SCHOOL" There it was. In big bold letters. Festooned across the top of newspapers ...
Saturday, June 27, 2015

White Noise Black Noise

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I can't remember a more eventful week. Eight epochal days starting with a terrorist act so heinous; so unfounded, so unbelievably e...
Sunday, June 7, 2015

The Invisible Kid

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I'm so glad that we are living in an age of video and social media. For years many  people rationalized or eschewed racial/ gender/ age/...