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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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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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Throwback Thursday: I am the Daria of Christians.
Note: This post originally appeared on my old blog, Far Above Rubies, on July 31, 2012. ~Li After posting this last week, I felt conflicted. Well, maybe more than just conflicted.…
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Throwback Thursday: On Plato’s Cave & the Ultimate Light
Note: This post first appeared on my old blog, Far Above Rubies, on July 30, 2012. ~Li A long, long time ago, back when Clinton was still president, Diddy was still…
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Some Sunday Stuff: August 6th.
Miss you, Jos. Happy Sunday, Everyone. Today would’ve been my sister Joscelyne’s 33rd birthday. Well, it still is to me. As I do everyday, I miss her. So Happy Birthday to…
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Throwback Thursday: Circles, Squares & Me.
Note: This post first appeared on my old blog, Far AboveRubies, on September 21, 2012. ~Alisha When I sat in that doctor’s office over a year and a half ago, being…
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The Preachers: Charles Colcock Jones, Christianizer of the Negroes.
(Image Source: Wikipedia) It’s time for another entry in the ongoing series “The Preachers”, in which I look at some of the United States’ most influential spiritual/religious leaders. All of the previous…
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Some Sunday Stuff: June 25th
From left to right: Greg, Nate, Joe, Justin, Jenny and the judge. It’s been a looooong time since I did a “Some… Stuff” post, but here goes. On Friday, my brother…
