“WE LONGED FOR A HOME LIKE HERS. THERE WE ALWAYS FOUND SWEET BALSAM FOR OUR TROUBLES. SHE WAS SO LOVING, SO SYMPATHIZING! SHE ALWAYS MET US WITH A SMILE AND LISTENED WITH PATIENCE TO ALL OUR SORROWS. SHE SPOKE SO HOPEFULLY THAT UNCONSCIOUSLY, THE ...
Posted Friday, January 29th 2010 at 10:42AM
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“IT WAS THE FIRST TIME SINCE MY CHILDHOOD THAT I HAD EXPERIENCED ANY REAL HAPPINESS. THE DARKEST CLOUD THAT HUNG OVER MY LIFE HAD ROLLED AWAY. WHATEVER SLAVERY MIGHT DO TO ME, IT COULD NOT SHACKLE MY CHILDREN.”
“My mind was made up,” ...
Posted Thursday, January 28th 2010 at 4:22PM
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“MY UNCLE PHILLIP, WHO WAS A CARPENTER, HAD VERY SKILLFULLY MADE A CONCEALED TRAP-DOOR. TO THIS HOLE I WAS CONVEYED AS SOON AS I ENTERED THE HOUSE. THE AIR WAS STIFLING. THE DARKNESS TOTAL. I COULD SLEEP QUITE COMFORTABLY ON ONE SIDE BYT THE SL ...
Posted Wednesday, January 27th 2010 at 1:57PM
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“READER, BE ASSURED THIS NARRATIVE IS NO FICTION,” HARRIET JACOBS WROTE IN THE INTRODUCTION TO HER 1861 MEMOIR ‘INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL.’ “I AM AWARE THAT SOME OF MY ADVENTURES MAY SEEM INCREDIBLE. BUT THEY ARE, NEVERTHELESS, STRICT ...
Posted Monday, January 25th 2010 at 10:26PM
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HARRIET JACOBS WAS A SLAVE IN NORTH CAROLINA UNTIL 1842 WHEN SHE MADE HER ESCAPE. SHE WROTE ABOUT HER PERSONAL JOURNEY IN HER 1861 MEMOIR “INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL”. PROFESSOR JEAN FAGAN YELLIN STUDIED THE LIFE OF HARRIET JACOBS AND ...
Posted Monday, January 25th 2010 at 9:08AM
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IN HIS NARROW, MALICIOUS WAY, ROBERTSON IS MAKING A FIRST COMMANDMENT ARGUMENT. BUT IT IS A FUNDAMENTALIST VIEW. IT’S SO UNKIND AND SELF-RIGHTEOUS—AND DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND TO CENTURIES OF THEOLOGICAL DISCOURSE ON SUFFERING BY THINKERS FROM AUGUSTIN ...
Posted Sunday, January 24th 2010 at 12:03PM
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HOW LOUD DO THE ALARMS HAVE TO GET? THERE IS AN ECONOMIC EMERGECNY IN THE COUNTRY WITH MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS OF AMERICANS RIDDLED WITH FEAR AND ANXIETY AS THEY STRUGGLE WITH LONG-TERM JOBLESSNESS, HOME FORECLOSURES, PERSONAL BANKRUPTCIES AND DWINDL ...
Posted Saturday, January 23rd 2010 at 7:33AM
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ELYRIA, Ohio — PRESIDENT OBAMA, STRIKING A NO-RETREAT, NO-SURRENDER POSTURE IN THE WAKE OF HIS PARTY’S HUMILIATING DEFEAT IN THE MASSACHUSETTS SENATE RACE THIS WEEK, VOWED TO PRESS ON WITH HIS EXPANSIVE DOMESTIC AGENDA—INCLUDING A HEALTH CARE OVERHAU ...
Posted Saturday, January 23rd 2010 at 7:32AM
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WASHINGTON—THE SUPREME COURT HAS HANDED LOBBYISTS A POTENT NEW WEAPON. A LOBBYIST CAN NOW TELL ANY ELECTED OFFICIAL: IF YOU VOTE WRONG, MY COMPANY, LABOR UNION, OR INTEREST GROUP WILL SPEND UNLIMITED SUMS EXPLICITLY ADVERTISING AGAINST YOUR RE-ELECT ...
Posted Friday, January 22nd 2010 at 8:19PM
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CONSERVATIVES ARE DELIRIOUS. “WATERBOARDING WINS!” EXULTS THE NATIONAL REVIEW, NOTING THAT BROWN “SPOKE OUT FORCEFULLY IN FAVOR OF ENHANCED INTERROGATION.” MICHAEL GRAHAM CALLS IT A “ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME, NEVER-SAW-IT-COMING, DANCE-IN-THE-STREETS VI ...
Posted Wednesday, January 20th 2010 at 12:21PM
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“THE TRIUMPH OF THE BOOK—AND THEIR LIVES—IS THAT RACE AND RELIGION ARE TRANSCENDED IN THESE INTERWOVEN HISTORIES BY FAMILY LOVE, THE SHEER FORCE OF A MOTHER’S WILL AND HER UNSHAKABLE INSISTENCE THAT ONLY TWO THINGS REALLY MATTERED: SCHOOL AND CHURCH. ...
Posted Monday, January 18th 2010 at 5:41PM
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PORT-AU-PRINCE — WITH THEIR CHURCHES FLATTENED, THEIR PRIESTS KILLED AND THEIR BIBLES LOST AMID THE RUBBLE OF THEIR HOMES, DESPERATE HAITIANS PRAYED IN THE STREETS ON SUNDAY, RAISING THEIR ARMS IN THE AIR AND ASKING GOD TO EASE THEIR GRIEF.
Outs ...
Posted Monday, January 18th 2010 at 10:30AM
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“WE WERE ON THE VERGE OF LOSING AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE AMERICAN STORY,” SAID THE PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL TRUST, WHICH DURING THE LAST TWO YEARS, HAS AIDED THE RENOVATION OF 33 ROSENWALD SCHOOLS. A FORMER STUDENT, NOW 92, SAID, “LOCAL WHITES ON ...
Posted Sunday, January 17th 2010 at 5:55PM
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SILENCE. QUIET. STILLNESS. OPENNESS. LISTENING. THESE WORDS DESCRIBE THE EXPERIENCE OF SOMEONE WHO IS BEGINNING TO TASTE THE REALITY OF GOD’S PRESENCE WITHIN. YOU ARE INVITED TO AN INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP IN THE ANCIENT CHRISTIAN PRACTICE OF CENT ...
Posted Sunday, January 17th 2010 at 2:00PM
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THERE IS NOW A BUBBLING DISCONTENT ON THE RIGHT AND, IN PARTICULAR, AMONG WHITES, WHICH IS AIMED AT PRESIDENT OBAMA. MOST WHITES THINK THAT OBAMA’S FIRST YEAR AS PRESIDENT HAS BEEN MAINLY A FAILURE. A PLURALITY OF WHITES EVEN SAID THAT OBAMA HAS B ...
Posted Saturday, January 16th 2010 at 11:41AM
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IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE EARTHQUAKE IN HAITI, MANY AMERICANS ARE REACHING FOR THEIR CELLPHONES TO MAKE A DONATION VIA TEXT MESSAGE. AND PLENTY OF THEM ARE THEN SPREADING THE WORD TO OTHERS. THE AMERICAN RED CROSS SAID THAT IT HAS RAIISED MORE THAN $ ...
Posted Friday, January 15th 2010 at 11:39AM
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AS A MASSIVE HUMAN TRAGEDY UNFOLDS IN HAITI, RELIEF ORGANIZATIONS ARE SOLICITING CREDIT CARD DONATIONS THROUGH THEIR HOTLINES AND WEBSITES. ABOUT 97 PERCENT OF THESE DONATIONS WILL ACTUALLY MAKE IT TO THE DESIGNATED ORGANIZATIONS. BUT THE OTHER 3 P ...
Posted Thursday, January 14th 2010 at 3:12PM
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PHILLIS WHEATLEY (1753?-1784), AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN WHO WAS A SLAVE AND A POET, BECAME THE FIRST BLACK AMERICAN TO BE PUBLISHED. THE CITY OF BOSTON ERECTED A STATUE OF PHILLIS WHEATLEY, ENGRAVED WITH THE WORDS OF HER POEM “O ...
Posted Thursday, January 14th 2010 at 8:49AM
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“AT LAST, PHILLIS, WE UNDERSTAND. WE KNOW NOW THAT YOU WERE ONLY A SICKLY LITTLE BLACK GIRL, SNATCHED FROM YOUR HOME AND COUNTRY, WHO STILL STRUGGLED TO SING THE SONG THAT WAS YOUR GIFT. IT IS NOT SO MUCH WHAT YOU SANG, AS THAT YOU KEPT ALIVE THE N ...
Posted Thursday, January 14th 2010 at 8:45AM
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BEWARE OF BOGUS ONLINE “HELP” FOR HAITI. IF YOU WANT TO DONATE MONEY, CONSIDER KNOWN AND RELIABLE CHARITIES.
YOU CAN HELP RIGHT NOW. SEND TEXT MESSAGE OR DONATE ONLINE THROUGH ONE OF THE ORGANIZATIONS BELOW.
The American Red Cross will p ...
Posted Wednesday, January 13th 2010 at 8:07PM
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THE 7.0 EARTHQUAKE THAT HIT HAITI’S CAPITAL, PORT-AU-PRINCE WAS A DEVASTATING DISASTER OF CATACLYSMIC PROPORTIONS. IT MAY TAKE WEEKS BEFORE THE EXTENT OF THE DAMAGE IS KNOWN. THESE PEOPLE NEED OUR HELP.
As of now, here are some responsible c ...
Posted Wednesday, January 13th 2010 at 8:41AM
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IT’S REALLY INTERESTING HOW THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT HAS JUMPED ON HARRY REID’S RACIAL OBSERVATIONS REGARDING BARACK OBAMA’S CANDIDACY. THEY FEEL THAT REID MADE SOME TYPE OF FAUX PAS.
Senator Reid was making a candid observation about racial a ...
Posted Wednesday, January 13th 2010 at 8:35AM
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THE ATTACK ON THE REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT BY THE TEA PARTY FOLKS GRABS THE GAZE LIKE A REALLY BAD HORROR FLICK—SOME VERSION OF “HEE HAW” MEETS “28 DAYS LATER.” IT’S FASCINATING. BUT IT ALSO RAISES A SERIOUS QUESTION: ARE THESE THE DESPERATE THRAS ...
Posted Saturday, January 9th 2010 at 11:00AM
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