Slavery By Another Name

I just finished this book. It’s amazing. One of the first books to open my eyes to the reality of our system of “corrections” was The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander. Other books like Taken Into Custody by Stephen Baskerville, exposed the reality of the “family” court system and the connections between family breakup…

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Obama on liberal college students who want to be “coddled”: “That’s not the way we learn”

It’s not just sometimes folks who are mad that colleges are too liberal that have a problem. Sometimes there are folks on college campuses who are liberal, and maybe even agree with me on a bunch of issues, who sometimes aren’t listening to the other side, and that’s a problem too. I’ve heard some college…

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Suit filed over mix-up at Downers Grove sperm bank is dismissed

I find it so interesting that this lesbian mother is so unwilling to embrace the child for who she is. I guess some people feel it’s okay to be selective when it comes to acceptance and/or tolerance #Lovewins? I heard about this a while ago and I am glad to see this result. Deal with it….

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Michael Jackson on Motown 25- in his own words

From his book Moonwalk: “So I gathered my brothers and rehearsed them for this show. I really worked them, and it felt nice, a bit like the old days of the Jackson 5. I choreographed them and rehearsed them for days at our house in Encino, videotaping every rehearsal so we could watch it later….

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AMAZING GRACE Trailer…and the continuing legal problems with it

  Aretha Franklin may try to quash the debut of a long-buried gospel movie its producer calls “the most important document of American popular music ever filmed.” “Amazing Grace,” which captures a star-studded gospel service headlined by Franklin in 1972, is scheduled to premiere on opening night of September’s prestigious Toronto International Film Festival. After…

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