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Thursday, March 27, 2025
Sarah Vaughan's Birthday Is Today
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The extraordinary jazz vocalist Sarah Vaughan (1924-1990), known as "The Divine One," was born on this day. Vaughan, a native of N...
Thursday, March 13, 2025
A Hatemongering Pastor Runs For NYC Mayor
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James David Manning, the pastor of the Atlah World Missionary Church in Harlem, has recently announced that he is running for mayor of New Y...
Monday, March 3, 2025
Black Brotherly Love
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"I think it is absolutely necessary that black men regroup as black men; until they can talk to each other, cry with each other, hug an...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
The Redesigned Rainbow Flag, Monstrously Ugly
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Douglas Murray, a New York Post columnist, described the rainbow flag in his column (January 24, 2025) as "a perfectly pleasant symbol...
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Do You Have An Artist In The Family?
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"Today, no American family can be secure against the danger that one of its children may decide to become an artist." --Garrison K...
Thursday, January 23, 2025
Linguistic Pet Peeves
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Everyone has words, phrases, or expressions that can be called pet peeves. I have two of them. The first pet peeve is one you often see prin...
Monday, January 6, 2025
Printing Mishaps
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In my many years as a freelance journalist I have experienced several printing errors that have appeared in articles I've written for ne...
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