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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…

    January 26, 2020
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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.”…

    December 29, 2018
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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…

    December 28, 2018
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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…

    December 22, 2018
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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…

    September 1, 2017
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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…

    August 4, 2017
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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…

    June 24, 2017
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    Flashback Friday: Marlon Brando’s Eulogy for a Black Panther.

    Black Panther Bobby Seale with actor Marlon Brando. (Image Source: San Francisco Bay View)   In a San Francisco Bay View film review for the 2015 documentary “Listen to Me Marlon”, the…

    May 26, 2017

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