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So maybe Indians are kinda, sorta Black?
Bonda girl in Orissa. Image by: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0/Flickr/Otabi kitahachi (via HuffPo) Well, at least some Indians are… a few weeks ago, I confessed up to thinking as a kid that Indians…
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Flashback Friday: Lena Horne on the Blacklist.
Lena Horne (Image Source) Lena Horne- singer, actress, glamour queen of the 1940’s- found herself blacklisted in Hollywood, labeled a Communist betrayer of democracy in the early 1950’s. It was a particularly…
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Flashback Friday: When Sammy Davis Jr. got devilish.
(Image Source: Vice) Last week in the Anton La Vey post, I mentioned how Sammy Davis Jr. became a member of The Church of Satan for a while. This struck me…
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Flashback Friday: When Buddy Holly Broke the Color Line- at the Apollo.
Bespectacled Buddy. (Image Source) Before his shocking death at only 22 in 1959, Buddy Holly managed to make major moves. A native of Lubbock, Texas, Holly began playing the guitar as…
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Come Clean: I thought Indians were Black, too.
(Master of None, Netflix Screen Grab) There’s a throwback scene at the very top of Master of None‘s Season 2’ episode, “Thanksgiving”, during which little Denise, BFF of little Dev, over…
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The Preachers: Anton La Vey & The Church of Satan.
Anton La Vey and snake. (Image Source) So far in this series, I covered Jim Jones who believed himself better than God (if there was, in fact, a supreme deity); Father…
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Flashback Friday: Sam Cooke’s Crossover Pop Success and How It Made Change Come.
Sam Cooke (Image Source) Earlier this spring, when rapper Kendrick Lamar dropped his critically praised album, “DAMN”, it shot up to the top of the Billboard charts. Thing is, it wasn’t…
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Flashback Friday: Marlon Brando’s Eulogy for a Black Panther.
Black Panther Bobby Seale with actor Marlon Brando. (Image Source: San Francisco Bay View) In a San Francisco Bay View film review for the 2015 documentary “Listen to Me Marlon”, the…
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The Preachers: Aimee Semple McPherson, America’s first female celeb evangelist.
Aimee Semple McPherson, the Pentecostal Preacher who could’ve been a Silent Screen Star. (Image: Foursquare Church) Aimee Semple McPherson was… so much. A Canadian missionary to China as a young newlywed;…
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Flashback Friday: When Grace Kelly stormed out of the Stork Club after they refused to serve Josephine Baker.
Grace Kelly and Josephine Baker, circa 1951. (Image sources here and here) In October 1951, Grace Kelly, just beginning to make a name for herself, decided to have a night out on…
