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Throwback Thursday: Let it be.
Note: This post first appeared at my old blog, Far Above Rubies, on October 4, 2010. ~Alisha I’m sitting in the local diner writing this on my laptop, the…
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Flashback Friday: That time Albert Einstein hosted Marian Anderson.
There’s a lot I’ve just found out about Albert Einstein. For example, who knew old Al was quite the ladies’ man, a master at science and charm? But another fact that I…
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Throwback Thursday: Pain in heels while walking.
Note: This post first appeared on my old blog, Far Above Rubies, on March 9, 2012. ~Alisha If you clicked on this post expecting a piece on platforms, sorry, not getting that.…
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Flashback Friday: The tragic last days of Lady Day.
Billie Holiday the d’Orly airport, Paris, photographed by Jean-Pierre Leloir, 1958. (Photo Image and Caption via Abongond) I was listening to “On The Media” a couple of weeks ago and the…
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Throwback Thursday: Kick, push, kick, push, coast.
Note: This post first appeared on my old blog, “Because Thou Mayest”, on April 27, 2016. ~Alisha Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy Cavendish (Source) I just wrapped “Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Life and…
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Flashback Friday: Orson Welles & The “Voodoo MacBeth”.
(Image Source: Inverse) It’s mind boggling to me, but back in the 1930s, during the height of the Great Depression, the federal government paid a then-unknown, and very young Orson Welles…
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Flashback Friday: Dick Gregory, John Lennon, and “Imagine”.
John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Dick Gregory. (Image Source: Yoko Ono’s Twitter account) Dick Gregory, comedian, entertainer, and civil rights activist, died last Saturday, August 19th, at the age of 84.…
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Throwback Thursday: Plan B (The non-B.C. one).
Note: This post first appeared at my old blog, Far Above Rubies, on May 8, 2012. ~Li Why???? As I mentioned, somewhat in passing a couple of weeks ago, I resigned from…
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Flashback Friday: Eldridge Cleaver- From Panther to PTL.
Kathleen and Eldridge Cleaver in the early 1970s. (Image Source) I’m currently reading “PTL:”The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s Evangelical Empire” by John Wigger. Spoiler alert: my next…
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Flashback Friday: The Summer of Love.
(Image Source) The Summer of 1967 was something. Newark had riots. So did Detroit (there’s currently a major motion picture about part of that out in theatres right now). Yet… away from…
