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TAKE MY HAND PRECIOUS LORD
Gospelfest 2023 at the Meyerhoff Baltimore, Md. It is one of 3000 songs penned by a black blues musician, Thomas Dorsey. It has also become the bedrock of what has become THE BLACK CHURCH. It is not what Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John had in mind, when they wrote the Gospel (Good News) about the
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THE Z’s HAVE IT
Baltimore Tattoo Festival, Baltimore Convention Center, 2023 What comes after “Z”? I have not researched it. First there was generation X, followed alphabetically by Y and now Z. Born after 1997. This is the generation of risk, fast cars, drivers with cell phones in their hands, fake nails, hair, and body parts; blended families, opioids, vaping, having multiple social
DEAR SUGAR
“my father made me …off when I was three” “my 20 year old marriage fell apart” “about 18 months ago I got pregnant, that surprised both my boyfriend and me..at six and a half months, I miscarried. Since then, I have struggled to get out of bed”. The above are quotes from a book entitled,
When “Ax” Is Not ASK. Valentine, Not “VALENTIME”.
Cast for ADMISSIONS & WHEN MEN… “Public Schools in Baltimore City Public Schools School District have an average math proficiency score of 8% (versus the Maryland public school average of 19%) and reading proficiency score of 16% (versus the 36% statewide average).” The above was taken from the publication, PUBLIC SCHOOL REVIEW (2023). What is going on? Hakeem is 16
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The Revolution will NOT be Televised.
Black Power from artist Hank Willis Thomas Gil Scott- Heron who wrote this popular hip hop poem to music in 1969, did not live to see he was wrong, in part. When RUN DMC came on stage wearing Adidas sneakers, who would have thought that the Johnny Mathis outfit with suits and patent leather shoes,
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BOUNDLESS
Ryan Bailey “Mississippi, God damn!”. She was sitting at the piano, filled with rage about mistreatments of black people in the described “free world”. Alabama, Tennessee, fire hoses, biting dogs, raging white supremacists. Nina Simone, jazz aficionado, stalwart, could not take it anymore, “me and my people are bout due” she wrote, and sang. She wanted to be boundless, FREE!!!
