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Continue reading →: Taxation Without Representation
Today will be the first Senate hearing for DC Statehood since 1993. DC’s Mayor and non-voting delegate, Eleanor Holmes-Norton, are stepping up to the plate in hopes that the Nation’s Capital could receive home-rule. From the outside looking in, people do not understand what a big deal this is…however, I…
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Continue reading →: 9.11.2001
A Day of Remembrance. If you were teaching a history class, what would you say to the kids who were not born yet when 9/11 occurred? What, in your opinion, is the chief lesson of that day?
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Continue reading →: Hit the Road, Ray
If you saw the video, you know why. Ray Rice was released by the Baltimore Ravens today and suspended by the NFL indefinitely. A video surfaced from TMZ showing he and his now-wife in an elevator: them fighting, him knocking her unconscious and then carrying her out. I don’t understand how…
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Continue reading →: NFL Is Making… History
I am not a football fan- at all. But, there is much afoot at the National Football League. First Commissioner Goodell tried to make it right by toughening the domestic violence policy, and rightly so. Any NFL employee — not only a player — who is found to have engaged in…
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Continue reading →: What’s In a Name? From Jose’ to Joe
I had to drop a letter to get a title. -Jose Zamora
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Continue reading →: Man In the Mirror
Sunil Dutta, a 17-year veteran LAPD cop, has a suggestion for victims of police violence searching for someone to blame: Look in the mirror. Even though it might sound harsh and impolitic, here is the bottom line: if you don’t want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or…
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Continue reading →: Sad Irony
One who created so much laughter could be in such pain. Robin Williams July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014
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Continue reading →: RIP Michael Brown
Details remain sketchy, but here’s what we know. Michael Brown, 18, was shot and killed by a police officer in St. Louis on Saturday afternoon. He was set to leave for college TODAY. It has been reported that Michael and the officer struggled over a gun while in the police car. One shot…
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Continue reading →: Art Imitates Life
Netflix has hit paydirt with its wildly popular hit, Orange is the New Black. Based on the experience of Piper Kerman, the series chronicles the lives of women whom she encountered during her 15-month prison sentence. I posted back when Kerman’s book (same title) first hit the shelves, then bestseller…
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I’m Ayoka
Welcome to Mule Of The World. Musings and rants from this Black woman. Zora Neale Hurston called the Black woman “the mule of the world.”
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