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Some Sunday Stuff: July 23rd.

Zoe is 6!   Happy Sunday! It was quite the week in news- Kermit got fired, R. Kelly may be head of a creepy cult, the Juice is (about to be) loose, and Sean “Spicey” Spicer is out at The White House, disappointing legions of Melissa McCarthy fans (like me).  But in the De Freitas…

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Flashback Friday: The Newark Riots.

(Image Source: NJ.com)   I heard the story countless times growing up. My grandmother had warned my grandfather they shouldn’t go into Newark that Sunday in July of 1967. Not *that* Sunday. But my Papa, veteran of WWII and the Korean War, was not one to scare easily, and was also equally determined not to…

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Some Sunday Stuff: July 16th.

  I love these flowers. Like a little bit of the tropics. (Photo taken by me)   Happy Sunday! Let’s get to the links. First up, I have to strongly recommend Crash Course Film History if, like me, you’re a novice on the subject but fascinated, nevertheless. Here’s the preview so you can get a…

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Flashback Friday: The 1977 NYC Blackout.

(Image Source)   Forty years ago yesterday, New York City, which supposedly never sleeps, went dark. And then, went mad. From Time: The blackout that hit New York on… July 13, in 1977 was to many a metaphor for the gloom that had already settled on the city. An economic decline, coupled with rising crime…

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Some Sunday Stuff: July 9th.

(Video screen grab)    Happy Sunday, All. Have you seen Jay Z’s video for “The Story of O.J.?” I’m so utterly fascinated by the thing. Check it out:     (Video screen grab) Of course, “4:44” is not without its critics (also here, here, here), and even from the Anti-Defamation League. For more on the…

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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 entries are of people who had their biggest impact in the 20th Century, even if they were born in the 19th. This post,…

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Flashback Friday: Merle Oberon, Hollywood (Secret Indian) Star.

(Image Source)   Merle Oberon was stunningly beautiful, and one of Hollywood’s first genuinely glamorous stars. She was also mixed-race, born in India, and acutely aware of existing racism and prejudice that could’ve easily derailed her acting career before it even had a chance to develop. So the beautiful actress became Tasmanian with a faux…

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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 Joe and his wife, Jenny, officially adopted our nephew Justin (our sister Joscelyne‘s son… she passed away in 2012). It was a long,…

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So maybe Indians are kinda, sorta Black?

Bonda girl in Orissa. Image by: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0/Flickr/Otabi kitahachi (via HuffPo)   Well, at least some Indians are… a few weeks ago, I confessed up to thinking as a kid that Indians were Black. And a few of my Indian/Bangladeshi friends gave me e-props for it (what up?!). One of them, Wafi, passed on this…

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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 as… well, pretty weird. I could see why the publicity-loving Jayne Mansfield would sign up to be Team Lucifer, but Sammy “Member of…

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