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Jun.01.2013
New Yorkers gather to honor the life of MichaelJackson after his death during Black Music Monthin 2009. (photo by Getty Images)
The basic idea underlying the concept of Pan Africanism is that of cultural awareness and connection leading to mutually beneficial cooperation between people of African...
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Apr.18.2013
How Wendy Redbird Dancing Survived the Dark Ages of Nought, by Lyn Fairchild Hawks
Sometimes a novel steps out of the safety of genre and takes its chances. Fairchild Hawks' book is one such, and by my reckoning, it's a success.
The story here is of Wendy, a fatherless sixteen year-old girl...
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Oct.05.2012
On Friday's Phil Naessens Show Phil congratulates Detroit Tigers third baseman Miquel Cabrera on becoming the first man since 1967 to win the triple crown, the New York Yankees winning the American League East, his thoughts on Wednesday's Mitt Romney/President Barack Obama presidential...
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Aug.20.2012
Video still from Notes for an Elegy in the Key of Michael.
Assistant program director “Lady Grace" at Savannah State University’s WHCJ radio station (90.3 FM) pointed out during one of her shows at the beginning of June that June and August represented the station’s “Michael Jackson time.”...
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Aug.16.2012
Does knowledge of the artist affect the perception of the art?
Have you ever watched the superbly crafted horror film “Rosemary’s Baby”? Does your enjoyment of the movie change when you learn that the director, Roman Polanski, was arrested for and plead guilty to statutory rape? ...
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Feb.17.2012
With the death of Soul Train founder Don Cornelius at the very beginning of the month, and that of Whitney Houston on February 11, Black History Month 2012 is fated to go down in history as one during which the world lost two of its greatest champions of African-American music.
Moreover,...
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Feb.02.2012
Fox News argues that the new Muppets film aims to brainwash children into thinking all rich people are bad, because it features a very evil oil tycoon.
Well, they didn’t voice objections against the inventor of Donald Duck or the Grimm brothers, for encouraging highly violent behaviour.
I think, in...
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Nov.07.2011
It's official. People will try to test out their new speakers for any old reason. I'm also convinced that they will block traffic to try out their speakers and their craptastic Pop & Lock Moves for any old reason.
Not to say that the arraignment of Dr. Conrad in the Michael Jackson...
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Aug.27.2011
Some philosophies claim that the eyes symbolize such qualities as the gift of prophecy, intelligence, and conscious awareness. In her Chakra Bible, Patricia Mercier describes the eye “chakras,” or centers of spiritual energy, as those which “feed the brain but can develop to detect extra-sensory...
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May.06.2011
Following Michael Jackson's death in 2009, I wrote a series of blogs and articles to which thousands of websites--and more like two million where one article was concerned-- linked or simply "picked up" to add quality content to themed pages studded with ads. Most of the time, I was happy...
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