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  • Yet More Easter Tips for Heathens

    Two years ago I penned a set of instructions to help my fellow heathens in their annual trip to church on Easter Sunday. Some heeded the advice. Others did not. And since that time, some other issues have come to light that should be addressed before the holy holiday this year on April 24 (if…

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  • Walter Hawkins: Goin' Up Yonder

    When he released his Love Alive album in 1975, the one with his Afro image on the cover that contained the gospel standards ”Changed,” ”I’m Not the Same” and ”Goin’ up Yonder,” there were limited options for listening to the music of Walter Hawkins. You could buy it on an eight-track tape, tune in to…

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  • Easter Tips for Heathens

    Editor’s Note: Easter Tips for Heathens originally ran in April 2009. For those of you headed back to church this coming Easter Sunday, here’s a refresher course on how to behave in God’s house. Call them the CMEs. You know who I’m talking about. The folks who go only go to church on Christmas, Mother’s…

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  • Mommy and Daddy Are Fat

    Dear Mommy, I don’t want to be like you and daddy. Sure, there are lots of good things you guys do really well. But what I am trying to say is that when I am all grown up, I don’t want to be your size. I heard this report last week about black folks and…

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  • Could Alabama Elect a Black Governor?

    Last Saturday in Linn Park in downtown Birmingham, a 41-year-old Congressman who went to Harvard and then graduated from Harvard Law School, announced that he was running for governor of Alabama in 2010. There were red, white and blue signs with his name on them and a diverse crowd of about 500 cheered on the…

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  • Got Game, But No Diploma

    If the championship in NCAA men’s basketball was based on the graduation rates of black players on the teams, it would be Duke and Villanova taking the court tonight in  Detroit rather than Michigan State and the University of North Carolina. Both Duke, which lost in the third round, and Villanova who lost to UNC…

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  • Should This HBCU Be Saved?

    The water is still on at Morris Brown College in Atlanta. At the very last minute, the 128-year-old historically black college came up with the money to pay its past due water bill of $64,887.32 in March. The historically black college was able to tap its proud history. The school reached out to alumni, churches…

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  • Losing Our Religion?

    Back in the day, saints sang “Gimme that ole time religion.” But now a larger percentage of blacks are saying, “No thanks.” Unlike grandma and grandpa, who built their lives on deep religious faith, Bible study, prayer meetings and consistent church attendance, more black Americans—now 11 percent—say they have no religion at all. They are…

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  • A Bridge This Far

    SELMA—Forty four years later, the 44th president of the United States is black. Things do change. From behind the gates of the Alabama governor’s mansion in 1965, Peggy Wallace watched as marchers made their way to the state capitol in a stand for voting rights. Her father, then Gov. George C. Wallace, led his state…

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