What was your most memorable moment during the inauguration? Mine was the prayer and I enjoyed Aretha Franklin singing and seeing all those people! ...
Posted Saturday, January 17th 2009 at 11:24AM
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A LITTLE SOUTHERN NEWS
January 16, 2009
ISSUE 17
EVENTS! PERFORMANCES! PEOPLE, AND MILD HUMOR ABOUT MEMPHIS AND THE SOUTH!.
Friday Weekly News Page
Written by: Ms. Winnie Shields also known as MIISRAEL
A SOUTHERN FACT: Little Southern ...
Posted Friday, January 16th 2009 at 11:47AM
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HOMETOWN MEMPHIS
January 13, 2009
written by: Miisrael Shields
A WEDDING BAILOUT!
01.13.2009
Olive Branch, MS
A local couple in nearby Olive Branch, Mississippi recently planned what they thought would be their dream wedding. In making th ...
Posted Tuesday, January 13th 2009 at 9:52AM
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SIRE: When I read of your love book, it was the music of the morning. In your holy mountain I find escapes. No wonder it's beautiful here. I get to love you in a secret place. A place I am with you all alone. The music of the morning is gent ...
Posted Sunday, January 11th 2009 at 10:29AM
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I am very thankful I have work at least for the time being--and if you are still employed you are among the thankful. What does it this mean when I hear that millions are out of work. The polictical talk steers we are in for recession, the governm ...
Posted Saturday, January 10th 2009 at 11:29AM
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A LITTLE SOUTHERN NEWS
January 09, 2009
ISSUE 16
EVENTS! PERFORMANCES! PEOPLE, AND MILD HUMOR ABOUT MEMPHIS AND THE SOUTH!.
Friday Weekly News Page
Written by: Ms. Winnie Shields also known as MIISRAEL
A SOUTHERN FACT: Little Southern N ...
Posted Friday, January 9th 2009 at 7:46AM
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I'm not one to put on masks although I admit that I have met many who wear them quite often. It has to do with the attitude one is displaying. I'm not writing about any one of you personally,or professionally, nor directly or indirectly because, ...
Posted Monday, January 5th 2009 at 8:49PM
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KENTUCKY WINS LIBERTY BOWL GAME!
Photo features: Kentucky safety Marcus McClinton (2) and Darryl Freeney(81)
Written by Miisrael Shields
01.02.2009--Memphis, TN
Kentucky vs. Carolina in the Liberty Bowl game played on Friday, Jan. 02, 2009. Bu ...
Posted Saturday, January 3rd 2009 at 12:10PM
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Not pointing fingers, not accusing each other, not forming opinions of what's being written by each individual. Let's look at something else where we become enclosed in growing from something someone writes or voices, even when you may not totally a ...
Posted Friday, January 2nd 2009 at 9:21AM
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SLOW DOWN...Ahhh...
Keep trying
More prayer
Be optimistic
Think positive
Encourage others
Give Thanks
...
Posted Thursday, January 1st 2009 at 10:35AM
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I'm being honest, I DO NOT make New Year's Resolutions. Why? Just so I wont have to say I broke and didn't keep them! I feel guilty when I don't keep promises, even to myself. I strive at setting a goal when it's necessary then I am mostly likely ...
Posted Thursday, January 1st 2009 at 10:19AM
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
FIRST GUITAR DROP!
Written by: Miisrael Shields
Beale Street--MEMPHIS TN
01.01.2009--MIDNIGHT
Thousands of Memphians were downtown on the famous Beale Street last night to ring in the New Year, or should I say drop it in! ...
Posted Thursday, January 1st 2009 at 9:32AM
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Native born Memphian, Benjamin Hooks will speak his last sermon on Sunday, January 04, 2008. After many years of his most rewarding and prodigious career. Mr. Hooks noted that the reason for his retirement was due to illness. He has touched hearts of ...
Posted Tuesday, December 30th 2008 at 12:44PM
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Most of us are looking to approach 2009 with a new change in our whole living conditions. Changes we'll help make will take our total commitment. We will have our new president and a new and fresh outlook for better things. Social, economic, jobs, and better living conditions we may all are ...
Posted Sunday, December 28th 2008 at 10:27AM
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A DRIVE BY THAT SAVED A BOY'S LIFE
Written by Miisrael Shields
December 28, 2008
Saturday morning, December 27, 2008 may have seemed like any other day for one Memphis citizen, except on her driving outing she decided to take a shortcut through ...
Posted Sunday, December 28th 2008 at 9:08AM
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Christmas Day is here and many of us celebrate it in ways and manners. Families have developed traditions they have kept for many years from generation to generation. Allow me to tell you of the tradition remembered from my childhood.
The Christ ...
Posted Thursday, December 25th 2008 at 11:49AM
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MERRY CHRISTMAS:
O' CHRISTMAS TREES:
Written by Miisrael Shields
One of Memphis home town residents goes a little farther with Christmas trees...How? She has one in every room of her house! Mrs. Ann Washington of Memphis loves trees, especi ...
Posted Thursday, December 25th 2008 at 11:24AM
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Please sign this blog card. It's for anyone who want to send well Holiday Wishes. To your family your friends or your love ones. Let's also remember to wish Seasons Greetings to our great sponsors here HBCU CONNECT they have let us post so many bl ...
Posted Tuesday, December 23rd 2008 at 8:02PM
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Many are waiting for the last few seconds to jump in the stores and dash for the sales! Are you one of the many? Even those who are finished may be in that crowd...do you feel the ecomony will keep consumers away? On Dasher, on Dancer! on Shopp ...
Posted Tuesday, December 23rd 2008 at 11:20AM
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12.22.2008--Memphis, Tennessee
HELP FOR HOMELESS STUDENTS:
written by Miisrael Shields
Memphis City School Students who are homeless have been given a much needed helping hand. Students who are living in homeless shelters, or in other displa ...
Posted Monday, December 22nd 2008 at 9:31AM
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I’M SO TIRED OF YOU SHOOTING ME!
I am including all of you to sending a shout out to our communities. Everyday, every hour, and in almost every city of town we are hacked up to our neck with the news stories of robberies, youth murders violent s ...
Posted Saturday, December 20th 2008 at 9:34AM
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WINNIESPOETRY PRESENTS:
A LEAF ON THE SNOW
Now I have loved you
flowed from my breath..
I am as a leaf on the snow
The wind will carry me
And
No more crying in brown pupils stain.
I cover you up with snows of virgins.
On a poetic morn.
I ...
Posted Friday, December 19th 2008 at 9:55AM
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WINNIESPOETRY PRESENTS:
TURN AROUND THAT I MAY LOVE YOU
Lover, sweet, tender.
Blameless Love.
Calls to me arms that echoes in voices of silent places.
A boomerang whisps away.
Turn around that I may love you.
I will catch Thee.
I AM ...
Posted Friday, December 19th 2008 at 9:39AM
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WINNIESPOETRY PRESENTS:
MY CUP RUNNETH OVER
Hearing the drippings from the table...
I listened to the fall onto the floor.
The tablecloth was soaked and could not contain
the rains.
And.. on the floors around the chairs
the wetness became ...
Posted Friday, December 19th 2008 at 9:26AM
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WINNIESPOETRY PRESENTS:
WHERE?
When I sought a love among the fields...
where?
I wandered in a garden of songs.
A dove landed on my hands.
I felt it's beating heart
I love it's purity.
When I set it free to fly away...
where?
I longed t ...
Posted Friday, December 19th 2008 at 9:16AM
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