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LET’S SEE: THIS MONTH IS…

February 21, 2013

    …Black History Month or, what white folks call, “February.”    Few persons use this time to find out things they don’t know. What was Jim Crow? Who was Frederick Douglass? How on earth did this country, “conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,” come so soon to tolerate […]

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It Was A Most Un-Civil War

April 17, 2011

    It was a hundred and fifty years ago and we still aren’t over it. Less than a century after Independence to create a nation, we were at each other’s necks in a Civil War of “father against son and brother against brother.” Keep in mind that included mothers and daughters too. The accompanying graphic […]

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