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  • Moving right along.

    I just realized that I haven’t heard any good jokes lately. Not that I’m a professional comedian, but with all of the comedy inclined folk in my family, I have not heard a good joke lately. Maybe I need to just sit down and call everyone up. Not just to get jokes, but to find… Read more

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  • Shopping While Black

    While I didn’t care too much for the documentary, I do like the internet features linked to CNN’s Black in America series. I especially thought a lot about the experiences of Leah Wells and her friends, who were detained without cause at Old Navy, while dressed in office attire. Just about every black person, regardless… Read more

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  • Lowered expectations.

    If you want to see war coverage all the time. Or natural disaster information. Or national disaster information, CNN is your best bet. However, if you are trying to get an in-depth, balanced look at the African American experience, please tune in to PBS. Or to your local library. Maybe even MSNBC on a good… Read more

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  • 07.24.08

    Some days I am so grateful for my parents and the values they instilled in me, my sisters and brother. My childhood was not perfect, by any means, but my parents never encouraged us to be ignorant bystanders in life. Or that it was more important to be pretty than beautiful. Read more

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