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Throwback Thursday: Romancing the ordinary.
Note: This post was first published on October 2, 2012, on my old blog, Far Above Rubies. Enjoy! ~Li On Thursday, my friend Kawania stopped by to pick up a flash drive.…
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Some Sunday Stuff: July 9th.
(Video screen grab) Happy Sunday, All. Have you seen Jay Z’s video for “The Story of O.J.?” I’m so utterly fascinated by the thing. Check it out: (Video screen…
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Flashback Friday: Princess Diana visits AIDS patients.
Princess Diana was photographed in April 1987 shaking hands, sans gloves, with an AIDS patient, demonstrating that the disease could not be transmitted via casual contact. (Getty Images/ Source) Next month…
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Throwback Thursday: Zoe 101: Lessons From My Daughter
Note from Li: This post was first published on my old blog, Far Above Rubies, on March 6, 2012. I’m republishing it today, with an update: Matt is now an awesome dad…
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Some Sunday Stuff: July 2nd.
My Z this past week.. 🙂 Happy Fourth of July Weekend. Hope you’ll find time to take in some rays at the beach, lake or park. Or maybe have a backyard…
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The Preachers: Charles Colcock Jones, Christianizer of the Negroes.
(Image Source: Wikipedia) It’s time for another entry in the ongoing series “The Preachers”, in which I look at some of the United States’ most influential spiritual/religious leaders. All of the previous…
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Flashback Friday: Merle Oberon, Hollywood (Secret Indian) Star.
(Image Source) Merle Oberon was stunningly beautiful, and one of Hollywood’s first genuinely glamorous stars. She was also mixed-race, born in India, and acutely aware of existing racism and prejudice that…
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Some Sunday Stuff: June 25th
From left to right: Greg, Nate, Joe, Justin, Jenny and the judge. It’s been a looooong time since I did a “Some… Stuff” post, but here goes. On Friday, my brother…
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So maybe Indians are kinda, sorta Black?
Bonda girl in Orissa. Image by: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0/Flickr/Otabi kitahachi (via HuffPo) Well, at least some Indians are… a few weeks ago, I confessed up to thinking as a kid that Indians…
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Flashback Friday: Lena Horne on the Blacklist.
Lena Horne (Image Source) Lena Horne- singer, actress, glamour queen of the 1940’s- found herself blacklisted in Hollywood, labeled a Communist betrayer of democracy in the early 1950’s. It was a particularly…
