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  • Lent 2021, Day 26: Overdue, but appreciated.

    Eisenhower was in office when this book was borrowed.

    March 18, 2021
  • Lent 2021, Day 13: We Got to Pray Just to Make it Today.

    You know “Pray” was a whole bop back in the day.

    March 3, 2021
  • Lent 2021, Day 6: There are no superheroes.

    Onward and… upward?

    February 23, 2021
  • Lent 2020, Day 25: The unknown was my compass.

    Round and round it goes,
    where it stops,
    nobody knows.

    March 25, 2020
  • Some Lenten Stuff, Fourth Sunday: I’ve been here before. Sort of.

    Sitting up in my room,
    Back here thinking ’bout the flu
    I must confess,
    I’m a mess
    Wondrin’ what to do.

    March 22, 2020
  • Lent 2020, Day 3: Satchmo & Scripture.

    Yes, I think to myself, what an overcrowded jail. Oh yeah.

    February 28, 2020
  • It's 90's, 00's, and 10s Li- and in this post we'll do even more time traveling.

    Some Sunday Stuff: January 12th.

    Some of the biggest music trends of the teens, some of the top wedding gowns of the past century, some of the best children’s books of the past year, and some time traveling with Alicia Keys. It’s this week’s Some Sunday Stuff.

    January 12, 2020
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    Little Lulu, we love you.

    “Louise as the winsome French girl in Now We’re in the Air (1927).” (Photo and caption from “Lulu Forever”)    I think the first time I can recall hearing the name “Louise Brooks” was…

    March 8, 2018
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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: The Black Actress Who Launched her career in “The Birth of a Nation”.

    (Madame Sul-Te-Wan, Image Source: BlackPast.org)   And no, I absolutely do NOT mean last year’s controversial Nate Parker flick, “The Birth of a Nation”. I’m talking the D.W. Griffith, 1915 film that celebrates the…

    May 11, 2017
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