i didnt realize there was a black national anthem but apparently there is. video and lyrics are here. now we learn that the black national anthem is lift every voice and sing which is a great song. i just didnt realize it had been designated as the black national anthem. i wonder if there is a national anthem for irishamericans asianamericans mexicanamericans gay americans. most of all i wonde...
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rodney olsen recently returned from a compassion international trip to the dominican republic and has a post about breaking the cycle of poverty. rodneys group was supposed to go to haiti but food riots there forced them back to miami where they regrouped to head to the dominican republic. this morning i read on boingboing that according to this ny times article the poorest of the poor in haiti ca...
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frank richs column in yesterdays new york timesawas richreally rich.a aside from the obligatory and gratuitous hillary clinton smears natch its a model of a selfinterested historical myopia that im afraid too many democratsawill talk themselves into on the way to election day.a richs premise is that this years election dynamic is the grand old white party confronts obama.a now no oneacan dispute r...
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amistad replica coming to barbados one of the watershed events in the history of the atlantic slave trade was the amistad incident of 1839. when the slaves on board the spanish ship amistad rebelled killed some of the crew and then attempted to return to africa they ended up being captured by the united states navy. the slaves were charged with murder on the high seas in a spectacular series of t...
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hes the first national politician ive ever seen quote mlk past 1963. the fierce urgency of now i am running because of what dr. king called the fierce urgency of now. i am running because i do believe theres such a thing as being too late. and that hour is almost here. im running because i dont want to wake up one morning four years from now and turn on one of those cable talk shows and see tha...
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