Category Archives: history

Dinner For Thirteen

March 28, 2024 – 7:50 am

The Synoptic Gospels recount Jesus Christ’s Palm Sunday entry into Jerusalem on a donkey. Seven days later the preacher had been betrayed by Judas, arrested by the authorities, tried by the Romans, crucified on the order of Pontius Pilate, buried in a cave, and rose from a deathlike coma a week later. Over the centuries […]

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Ides Of March

March 14, 2024 – 7:06 pm

Julius Caesar returned from the Conquest of Gaul loaded with plunder i.e. gold and slaves. He paid off the debt of every Roman, thereby freeing the hoi polloi from the tyranny of the upper classes. The Senators feared the Dictator’ rising popularity and accused Caesar of seeking the title of King. Caesar rejected their claim, […]

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Say it loud, I’m black and I’m proud. 2010

February 22, 2024 – 12:13 pm

Say it loud, I’m black and I’m proud. James Brown sang those words to the entire nation. Even the KKK heard, but back in the 1960s not everyone was listening to the singer of PLEASE PLEASE ME, since black music could only be heard on the far ends of the AM radio spectrum. I twisted […]

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100 GREATEST AFRICAN AMERICANS

February 7, 2024 – 9:28 am

In 2002 Temple University professor Molefi Kete Asante amassed list for his biographical dictionary 100 GREATEST AFRICAN AMERICANS. The illustrious names were listed alphabetically with # 1 being Hank Aaron and Malcolm X closed out the hundred. I recognized forty-one of them. Historical giants and thank to Wikipedia I read how the remaining fifty-nine African […]

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True Lack Of Color

February 6, 2024 – 3:18 am

George Washington has been revered as the Father of this Country for decades. The Virginian planter and his wife owned 318 slaves. Life of the plantation masters had always been painted full-white, however the Southern climate had been deadly to white women and slave owners exercised droit seigneur over the chattel women and girls. The […]

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