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“It goes without saying, I believe, that if we understood ourselves better, we would damage ourselves less.” ― James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985 Sudden death is a mother, I don’t care where it lands. Shannon J. Miles, 30, is in custody in Texas on...
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“Not only was I not born to be a slave: I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave-master. They had, the masters, incontestably, the rope—in time, with enough, they would hang themselves with it. They were not to hang me: I was to see...
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“The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.” ― James Baldwin The Frank Murphy Hall of Justice courtroom in Detroit, MI doubled as a...
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“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” ― James Baldwin The Associated Press reports that at least 38 girls and young women were killed while travelling on the back of an open truck that smashed into another...
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“Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.” ― James Baldwin During my last year of course work in the grad film department at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, I was sitting in my weekly master class conducted by Spike Lee, and listened...
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“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.” ― James Baldwin This week marks ten years since Hurricane Katrina devasted the inhabitants of New Orleans. A nation...
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On Thursday, Ferguson authorities say they arrested the man who confessed to firing the shot that killed 9-year-old Jamyla Bolden as she sat on her mother’s bed doing her homework. De’ Eris Brown, 21, was charged with 6 counts, most notably second-degree murder. Currently, Brown is being held on...
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“People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.” ― James Baldwin I love it when people stand on their word, especially when it costs them more than most would...
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“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.” ― James Baldwin Christopher Starks, a college junior at Savannah State University, had everything to gain. The person who shot and killed him Thursday night in the school’s student union building apparently believed the...
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“Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.” ― James Baldwin The first black general in the Marine Corps, Frank Emmanuel Petersen Jr., who suffered bruising racial indignities as a military enlistee in...
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“It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.” ― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time Amelia Boynton Robinson, known as the matriarch of the voting...
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“…hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the one who hated, and this is an immutable law… ― James Baldwin I remember the walk from my car to funeral home door as I prepared to make arrangements for the ridiculously sudden death of my mom in...
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“No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.” ― James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name On August 24 I posted a blog on this site about the 11 black book club members, all women, who were escorted...
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“I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.” ― James Baldwin Groovy and BRAVA, Jasmine Twitty! The 25-year-old College of Charleston graduate is the youngest jurist in the history of Easley, S.C. judicial...
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Why aren’t we protesting for Jamyla Bolden? Hmm. That’s a good question. On Thursday, August 20, we reported a story about an innocent little girl being killed while sitting on her bed doing her homework. This story hit the news and it resounded around the troubled town of Ferguson....
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“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” ― James Baldwin Shaq you know on sight. But the Honorable Ras Baraka, current Mayor of my native Newark, NJ — Brick City to those of us who love it...
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According to WTRH in Indianapolis, a 16-year-old girl was snatched right off of 42 and Post Rd. after a disturbance broke out on the bus on August 14. She was held against her will and assaulted until she was able to make an escape. After being removed from the...
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On Tuesday, 9-year old Jamyla Bolden was sitting on her Mother’s bed doing her homework. Her grandmother heard 5 gunshots as she sat in another room. Panic stricken, she ran into the bedroom to find Jamyla and her mother shot. Jamyla was still breathing when the police arrived and...
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I just got a notification that @JesseBogan tweeted crowds are forming at the scene and chanting, “If we don’t get it, shut it down!” Mr. Bogan also tweets that a man yelled, “All you have to do is leave,” as the police remained on the scene of the shooting....
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“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” ― James Baldwin And face it Janelle Monae did. On Friday morning (Aug. 14), Monae stage debuted “Hell You Talmbout,” her latest single on the Wondaland Records label for a live Today Show...
“It goes without saying, I believe, that if we understood ourselves better, we would damage ourselves less.” ― James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985 Sudden death is a mother, I don’t care where it lands. Shannon J. Miles, 30, is in custody in Texas on...
“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” ― James Baldwin The Associated Press reports that at least 38 girls and young women were killed while travelling on the back of an open truck that smashed into another...
“Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.” ― James Baldwin During my last year of course work in the grad film department at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, I was sitting in my weekly master class conducted by Spike Lee, and listened...
“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.” ― James Baldwin This week marks ten years since Hurricane Katrina devasted the inhabitants of New Orleans. A nation...
“People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.” ― James Baldwin I love it when people stand on their word, especially when it costs them more than most would...
“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.” ― James Baldwin Christopher Starks, a college junior at Savannah State University, had everything to gain. The person who shot and killed him Thursday night in the school’s student union building apparently believed the...
“It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.” ― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time Amelia Boynton Robinson, known as the matriarch of the voting...
“No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.” ― James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name On August 24 I posted a blog on this site about the 11 black book club members, all women, who were escorted...
“I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.” ― James Baldwin Groovy and BRAVA, Jasmine Twitty! The 25-year-old College of Charleston graduate is the youngest jurist in the history of Easley, S.C. judicial...
Why aren’t we protesting for Jamyla Bolden? Hmm. That’s a good question. On Thursday, August 20, we reported a story about an innocent little girl being killed while sitting on her bed doing her homework. This story hit the news and it resounded around the troubled town of Ferguson....
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” ― James Baldwin And face it Janelle Monae did. On Friday morning (Aug. 14), Monae stage debuted “Hell You Talmbout,” her latest single on the Wondaland Records label for a live Today Show...
UPDATE According to the Marion Police Department’s Facebook Page, the incident that happened yesterday involved two adults and they were both arrested on drug related charges. “This news is...
As I’m sure you have all heard earlier this week the Brown Family was banned from seeing Bobbi Kristina after a picture of her on her deathbed were leaked...
I knew it. I knew it. I knew it! I said it out the gate. This dumb ass Confederate Flag Challenge was going to get somebody killed. I seen...