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Some Sunday Stuff: April 16, 2023.
Celebrating Black Life through photos, the mysterious underground city found in a man’s basement, why the color purple has become villainous, how copyright laws infringe on hip hop, and I’ll try not to set the world on fire, but no promises.
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Lent 2023, Day 26: Breathe in Love, breathe out praise.
Let everything that breathes praise the LORD!
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Lent 2023, Day 13: Here’s to All the Ladies.
“My persuasion
Can build a nation
Endless power
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Lent 2023, First Sunday.
Poetry, candles, art, music.
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Some Sunday Stuff: January 26th.
So, um, as I’m typing this, I’m fighting back tears about the death of Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna in a helicopter crash this morning. I’m heartbroken for his wife and…
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Untitled. Or “Yes, I do prefer the company of the dead.”
“Sarah Mae Flemming (2nd from left) is joined by Julia E. King and attorneys Lincoln C. Jenkins & Matthew J. Perry.The photograph was taken by John W. Goodwin, a Columbia [S.C.] photographer.”…
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Flashback Friday: That time Lincoln planned to free the slaves and send them south of the border.
Engraving by Thomas Nast in 1865. (Source) I recently binge-listened to “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” by David W. Blight on Audible. It clocks in at nearly 37 hours, and makes…
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Some Sunday Stuff: December 23rd.
Merry Christmas Eve’s Eve! If you’re still doing last minute holiday shopping/ cooking/ cleaning/ running ragged, I understand! I spent the hours before my mom-in-law flew in from Trinidad on Friday literally…
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Flashback Friday: Orson Welles & The “Voodoo MacBeth”.
(Image Source: Inverse) It’s mind boggling to me, but back in the 1930s, during the height of the Great Depression, the federal government paid a then-unknown, and very young Orson Welles…
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Flashback Friday: The oh-so Noble Mr. Johnson.
Noble Johnson (Image Source) A few months back, I shared the story of Madame Sul-Te-Wan, the Black actress who got her big Hollywood start in “The Birth of a Nation” in…
