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  • Lent 2023, Day 25: Who’s Gonna Take the Weight?

    “Find your direction through introspection
    And for my people out there I got a question
    Can we be the sole controllers of our fate?
    Now who’s gonna take the weight?”

    March 22, 2023
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    Flashback Friday: That way awkward dinner party at Bobby Kennedy’s in May ’63.

    James Baldwin, left, and Bobby Kennedy. (Google Images)   By the time Robert F. Kennedy was killed in 1968, he had come to be viewed by many as a politician who cared…

    November 17, 2017
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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…

    July 9, 2017

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