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Some Sunday Stuff: August 6th.
Miss you, Jos. Happy Sunday, Everyone. Today would’ve been my sister Joscelyne’s 33rd birthday. Well, it still is to me. As I do everyday, I miss her. So Happy Birthday to…
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Throwback Thursday: Circles, Squares & Me.
Note: This post first appeared on my old blog, Far AboveRubies, on September 21, 2012. ~Alisha When I sat in that doctor’s office over a year and a half ago, being…
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The Preachers: Charles Colcock Jones, Christianizer of the Negroes.
(Image Source: Wikipedia) It’s time for another entry in the ongoing series “The Preachers”, in which I look at some of the United States’ most influential spiritual/religious leaders. All of the previous…
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Some Sunday Stuff: June 25th
From left to right: Greg, Nate, Joe, Justin, Jenny and the judge. It’s been a looooong time since I did a “Some… Stuff” post, but here goes. On Friday, my brother…
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Flashback Friday: Lena Horne on the Blacklist.
Lena Horne (Image Source) Lena Horne- singer, actress, glamour queen of the 1940’s- found herself blacklisted in Hollywood, labeled a Communist betrayer of democracy in the early 1950’s. It was a particularly…
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Flashback Friday: When Sammy Davis Jr. got devilish.
(Image Source: Vice) Last week in the Anton La Vey post, I mentioned how Sammy Davis Jr. became a member of The Church of Satan for a while. This struck me…
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Why do people join cults?
This TED-Ed video ties in nicely with my The Preachers series, and even mentions the Rev. Jim Jones. Check it out.
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The Preachers: Anton La Vey & The Church of Satan.
Anton La Vey and snake. (Image Source) So far in this series, I covered Jim Jones who believed himself better than God (if there was, in fact, a supreme deity); Father…
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The Preachers: Aimee Semple McPherson, America’s first female celeb evangelist.
Aimee Semple McPherson, the Pentecostal Preacher who could’ve been a Silent Screen Star. (Image: Foursquare Church) Aimee Semple McPherson was… so much. A Canadian missionary to China as a young newlywed;…
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Flashback Friday: That time Eartha Kitt made the First Lady cry.
LBJ LIBRARY PHOTO BY KEVIN SMITH I love the above picture. I love that in 1968, Eartha Kitt, singer, dancer, Catwoman, invited to one of those oh-so proper “Ladies who Lunch”…
