The remains of 427 slaves and free blacks were given a hollow resting place at the African Burial Ground Memorial in lower Manhattan New York. This cemetery for slaves and free blacks dating back to the 17th century was re-discovered in 1991 during ...
Posted Thursday, October 2nd 2008 at 5:32AM
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The remains of 427 African slaves were given a hollow resting place at the African Burial Ground Memorial in lower Manhattan. This cemetery for slaves and free blacks dating back to the 17th century was re-discovered in 1991 during a $300 million g ...
Posted Thursday, October 2nd 2008 at 4:43AM
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CHADS
It happened,
The best of my political fears.
The election was robbed,
moved me to tears.
I was so angry, no, I was mad,
It wasn’t fate, or modern fads,
but a vanilla beast named chad.
Count’em again, let us all pray,
And hope our vo ...
Posted Sunday, September 28th 2008 at 9:18AM
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Jesus Christ gave us the eight Beatitudes in the Sermon on the Mount, recorded for all posterity in the Gospel of Matthew, the first Book of the New Testament of the Bible. Jesus offers us a way of life that promises eternity in the Kingdom of Heaven ...
Posted Wednesday, September 24th 2008 at 8:10PM
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Allow me to introduce you to Pastor Joshua A. McClure!
Pastor McClure has recently released his second book, "Almost Persuaded, Now to Believe" and he shares some of his experience as a writer AND Pastor...
Why do I write?
Well, I feel co ...
Posted Wednesday, September 24th 2008 at 3:10PM
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THIS WAS AN E-MAIL SENT TO ME THAT I DECIDED TO SHARE:
First Published September 16, 2008
Voting for McCain Just Because He's White!
When the heck have White people told other Whites NOT TO VOTE for a person just because ...
Posted Monday, September 22nd 2008 at 9:15PM
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My cousin sent me this short prose and I am compelled to share it. I'm sure it has been a discussion more than once, but as I travel through life in the city and counties, etc., we still need to get this into the heads of many males (and much to my surprise, some females. A colleague told me ...
Posted Tuesday, September 16th 2008 at 1:49PM
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Posted by Swaggie Coleman...
I just finished reading your article, Sister Betty, about the spiritual flaws in the church (See Forum Discussion). I have to admit that going to church can be just as stressful as going to work because of the flaws of ...
Posted Tuesday, September 16th 2008 at 6:52AM
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Well, I will be the first to you not to play with God. I grew up with a God-fearing Pentacostal Great-great grandmother who would slap you across the room for talking (not to mention laughing) about church folks. "Don't play with God!" She would w ...
Posted Friday, September 12th 2008 at 10:47AM
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I had a good discussion with someone I met yesterday about youth and life's epiphanies that seem to come around the age of 40.
We began talking about the issues with youth today and the conversation blossomed to me asking her about her "Ah-ha" mom ...
Posted Friday, September 12th 2008 at 10:15AM
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When I first put the finishing touches on my book, "Cooling Well Water: A Collection of Work By An African-American Bipolar Woman," I was very excited. I grabbed a copy of Writers' Market 2003 and began contacting agents. I joined a few white grou ...
Posted Friday, September 12th 2008 at 8:42AM
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Swaggie's Voice is a blogazine published exclusively by Levine-oliver Publisher. The site: http//swaggiecoleman.blogspot.com is fast becoming a household brand. It is a unique blogazine defeating illiteracy by promoting literacy and education. Th ...
Posted Saturday, September 6th 2008 at 7:42AM
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