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Real Talk: Happy Birthday Rev. King

01.21.2013

Today we celebrate the birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as a national holiday.  It seems that every year on this day, I get sad.  It really bothers me that I live in the city where he was killed.  I know I wasn’t there, wasn’t even a thought in my mom’s mind, [...]

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Movie Review: The gRace Card: When Grace is Racist

02.27.2011

Today was supposed to be a great day… Yesterday evening I called my big sister and told her about this new movie coming out, The Grace Card.  I carried on about it starring Louis Gossett Jr. (phenomenal actor), the Memphis tie and all that.  The Grace Card is said to be the work of Memphian [...]

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30 Day Road to Discovery: Day 13 to 16 – Community

01.17.2011

I’ve been working on this post for four days.  I had to really dig deep to find the words for this post.  My emotions were really all over the place. The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically… Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true [...]

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30-Day Road to Discovery: Day 11- Remember

01.12.2011

One-year ago today, a massive earthquake sent Haiti into a state of emergency.  As I tweeted away I remember my time line filling up with reports of the quake.  Like so many I turned my television to MSNBC to see what was going on. Hours later as phone calls from people in Haiti started to [...]

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Real Talk: The Scott sisters released from prison…

12.30.2010

This is a copy of the press release from Haley Barbour’s site announcing to suspend The Scott Sister’s sentence of life in prison for $11.

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