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“We Slipped and Learned to Read”
It is common knowledge that slaves were lawfully restricted from learning to read and write. One less commonly stated fact however, was that slaves were not completely ignorant. They could not read and write English but this did not mean they could not read and write period. As strangers in a foreign land, many African… Continue reading
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Race and Rights
When did race and rights become separate entities? Since when has the black problem in America not have to do with both race and rights? Dare you to walk the streets of the 1920s and 40s and 50s with your prophet scented blood and expect to transgress the law of separatist signage. That “Whites Only”… Continue reading
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You Have the Right to Write
Attention: You Have the Right to Write or anything you don’t say will drive you crazy by intense desire. Creative ideas will overheat until they melt themselves into fragmented descriptions of confused thought and drip like perspiration from your brow. Words will escape your mouth in an explosion of writer’s language. Soon, you’ll start bringing up the names of… Continue reading
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Throwback Thursday Jam- “Golden”, Jill Scott
Where all my Neo Soul people at??? Anthony Hamilton, Leela James, Jill Scott, come on now! Live yo life like its Golden. Jill gone tell them about it, they don’t know ….lol Continue reading
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