RANDALL WAS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FLIER WITH A STRANGE LOOK ON HIS FACE, A MIX OF FEAR AND DESPERATION. HE WAS FEELING AROUND THE POCKET OF HIS SHIRT AND HE SEEMED TO BE IN A PANIC. THIS COULD NOT BE GOOD.
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Posted Saturday, June 5th 2010 at 11:03AM
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AMATEUR NIGHT AT THE APOLLO IS NOTORIOUSLY MERCILESS. WITH DOZENS OF STUDENTS IN THE AUDIENCE OF 1,500, THE BOOING CAME PARTICULARLY FAST AND FURIOUS. AND DON’T TEACHERS ENDURE ENOUGH ALREADY?
Around the time the ninth New York City public-sch ...
Posted Friday, June 4th 2010 at 8:53AM
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June 3, 2010
First Lady Michelle Obama
THE WHITE HOUSE
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D. C. 20500
Dear Mrs. Obama:
“No other group of slaves anywhere, at any period in history, left such a large repository of testimony a ...
Posted Thursday, June 3rd 2010 at 5:23PM
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SUMMARY: THE STORY SO FAR…
Josiah, a young slave 12 years of age, lives in a cabin in the slave quarters of a Virginia tobacco plantation with Auntie Bee, Mose, the plantation handyman, two young children, Randall and Emily. He notices Mose l ...
Posted Thursday, June 3rd 2010 at 9:02AM
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SUMMARY: THE STORY SO FAR…
Josiah, a young slave 12 years of age, lives in a cabin in the slave quarters of a Virginia tobacco plantation with 8 other slaves, including Auntie Bee, Mose, the plantation handyman, two young children, Randall and ...
Posted Wednesday, June 2nd 2010 at 8:00AM
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AND HE RODE UPON A CHERUB AND DID FLY; YEA, HE DID FLY UPON THE WINGS OF THE WIND—PSALM 18:10
NOW THEY ARE UP, THE FIRST AVIATORS FLYING ON THE FIRST AIRCRAFT IN HISTORY…
We were moving away from the mountain at a pretty good clip ...
Posted Monday, May 31st 2010 at 9:33PM
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AND HE RODE UPON A CHERUB AND DID FLY; YEA, HE DID FLY UPON THE WINGS OF THE WIND—PSALM 18:10
NOW THEY ARE UP, THE FIRST AVIATORS FLYING ON THE FIRST AIRCRAFT IN HISTORY…
A violent rush of wind battered us from all sides. It felt lik ...
Posted Monday, May 31st 2010 at 11:27AM
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JOSIAH, A YOUNG 12 YEAR OLD SLAVE ON A VIRGINIA PLANATAION, NOTICES THAT AN OLD MAN NAMED MOSE KEEPS LEAVING THE SLAVE QUARTERS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. HE FOLLOWED MOSE ON NIGHT TO HIS SECRET WORKSHOP IN THE WOODS AND DISCOVERED HIS PLAN TO BUIL ...
Posted Saturday, May 29th 2010 at 5:23PM
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ALTHOUGH THE RESPONSES CAPTURED IN LIVING COLOR ARE SHOCKING, THEY REALLY SHOULDN’T BE SURPRISING. THE MAJOR MOTIVATOR IN THE CONDITIONING PROCESS—THE 24/7, 360 DEGREES OF WHITE SUPERIOIRTY/BLACK INFERIORITY MESSAGING ENCODED IN MASS MEDIA.
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Posted Friday, May 28th 2010 at 3:26PM
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HERE IS PART OF THE STORY. IT DEALS MOSTLY WITH THE DECLINE OF LARRY KING. BUT RACHEL MADDOW IS EXHIBIT “A” IN THE FIRST SENTENCE AS ONE OF THOSE TV COMPETITORS WHO BESTED HIM.
May 26, 2010
IN A NEW ERA OF TV, RIVAL HOSTS DROWN OUT KING ...
Posted Thursday, May 27th 2010 at 11:27AM
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“IT’S REALLY ABOUT THE ILLUSION. LIKE, YOU CAN WEAR LACE BUT WHAT’S THE POINT. THE ILLUSION OF JUST HAVING BARE SKIN IS DEFINITELY A LOT MORE BEAUTIFUL. THE DESIGN HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE REAR. IT JUST SO HAPPENS THAT I HAVE A VERY WELL- ...
Posted Thursday, May 27th 2010 at 11:25AM
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FINDING COMMON GROUND AMONG FAITHS CAN HELP US BRIDGE NEEDLESS DIVIDES AT A TIME WHEN UNIFIED ACTION IS MORE CRUCIAL THAN EVER. WE MUST EMBRACE THE ONENESS OF HUMANITY AS WE FACE GLOBAL ISSUES LIKE PANDEMICS, ECONOMIC CRISES AND EXCOLOGICAL DISASTER ...
Posted Tuesday, May 25th 2010 at 9:21PM
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Next day I wasn’t even tired. Last night’s secret chase was exciting. Thinking about it filled me with an extra burst of energy. But by the afternoon, I needed all the energy I could muster because we were in the midst of one of those dreadful ...
Posted Sunday, May 23rd 2010 at 9:28PM
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I was laying in the dark, exhausted, for a good long time. But I couldn’t fall asleep. I don’t know how any of us got any sleep in that ruckus—snoring, sneezing, coughing, wheezing. When one of them got started this would provoke someone els ...
Posted Saturday, May 22nd 2010 at 8:30PM
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MINNEAPOLIS (The Borowitz Report) - In a sign of his increasing prominence in the so-called Tea Party movement, a new poll shows Kentucky senatorial candidate Rand Paul topping former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin among voters who describe themselves a ...
Posted Saturday, May 22nd 2010 at 10:15AM
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Several days after the time Ol’ Mose woke me, the night air in the cabin was stirring once again. In the quiet of the dark I heard pattering feet moving across the dirt floor. I opened my eyes and there he was, heading for the door. I managed t ...
Posted Friday, May 21st 2010 at 9:31PM
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I didn’t think much about it until I was lying in bed that night. Mose had me wondering. Why was the old man leaving in the middle of the night anyway? Why would he want to give up his sleep? And how come he was always back before morning? Whe ...
Posted Friday, May 21st 2010 at 9:30PM
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JUST DAYS AFTER ROARING THROUGH THE REPUBLICAN SENATE PRIMARY, HE PUT HIS PARTY ON THE SPOT—ANNOYING WOULD-BE COLLEAGUES WHO WOKE UP TO DISCOVER THEY HAD TO PLAY DEFENSE ON THE HYPERCHARGED ISSUE OF RACE IN AMERICA.
When Kentucky Republicans cas ...
Posted Friday, May 21st 2010 at 9:15AM
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Freedom is a magical word. We never knew freedom by experience but every one of us knew it by feel. The idea of freedom made our spirits soar. The sound of the word sparked a raging, unstoppable fire within us that burned powerfully in young and o ...
Posted Thursday, May 20th 2010 at 12:10PM
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About a week after Eliza passed, all the field hands were returning to the quarters at the end of a long miserable day. Everyone was finishing their chores, dog-tired and hog-hungry, gathering around the fire where they could get something to eat. ...
Posted Wednesday, May 19th 2010 at 10:25AM
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The two children, Randall and Emily, slept with Auntie Bee. Young Randall, about eight or nine, was a wild unruly child, truly a rambunctious pest.
I have never seen one boy get into so much mischief and deviltry. He was the only one who ev ...
Posted Tuesday, May 18th 2010 at 3:25PM
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Now Mose, he was an older fellow. His hair and beard were sprinkled gray and white. Mose looked old. He walked old and talked old. It seemed like he was always old, at least since I knew him. Everyone said he had a case of “the slows.” ...
Posted Tuesday, May 18th 2010 at 8:22AM
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