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Short and Sweet: When and What You Say–And How
We’ve all heard it: nobody writes letters anymore, people spend too much time on the phone, too much texting by everyone, etc. So: some guidance on when you can, when you can’t… Congratulations: When you find out great news and want to reach a close friend to say “you go, girl!” texting or e-mails are…
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Cool, Refreshing Legislation for Philip Morris
Indulge me in a thought experiment. Pretend that drinking something called “lethalcoffee” has been found to cause cancer. There are five or six kinds of gross-flavored lethalcoffees that hardly anyone drinks, like chocolate, cherry, banana, and vanilla. But there’s one flavor, mint, that 30 percent of all lethalcoffee drinkers are hooked on. And there’s one…
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Rail Cop Admits Oakland Man Posed No Threat Before He was Shot
The San Jose Mercury News is reporting that Officer Anthony Pirone, Commanding Officer of the BART platform where Oscar Grant was killed on January 1, has testified that Grant posed no threat to officers when he was detained on the platform moments before being shot in the back by Officer Johannes Mehserle. Pirone’s testimony came…
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Asparagus and Sweet Potato Curry
For my curry, I make a zesty sauce in which paper-thin sweet potatoes are simmered until meltingly tender. Then I add the freshest asparagus available and simmer it briefly at the end, until al dente. The black pepper and fresh cilantro pulls everything together into one cohesive, zip, pow, bang in your mouth. Since asparagus,…
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LAPD Violates One of Their Own
LAPD Violates One of Their Own A 25-year veteran of the LAPD is in the midst of appealing a lawsuit against his employer, the LA Times reports. Randolph Franklin, wants to know why a SWAT unit came to his home and searched it nearly three years ago. The LAPD claims it was an honest mistake…
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Coretta's Reading Rainbow
This year, as we commemorate four decades of the Coretta Scott King Book Awards, it is interesting to see how far children’s publishing has come in featuring books by African-American writers and artists. The Coretta Scott King Book Awards were established in 1969 to provide recognition for African-American authors and later illustrators of exceptional books…
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The Coretta Scott King Book Awards: 40 Years of Excellence
Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” As a mainstay in the publishing world, the Coretta Scott King Book Awards has a full and rich tradition of recognizing the best literature for young people created by African-American writers and illustrators. The honored books…
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Barack Is Not Spock
Barack is not Spock. I’ve heard so much rhapsodizing recently about the obvious kinship of the “mixed-race” marvels that I had to set the record straight. I saw “Star Trek” last weekend. Good film, but when the Vulcan commander strolled across the bridge of the Enterprise, I was not reminded of the president. Others have…
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Domestic Terror Plot Thwarted in New York
Domestic Terror Plot Thwarted in New York According to the Washington Post, Four men—James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen—were apprehended while plotting to use C-4 plastic explosives to bomb two Jewish centers in the Bronx, New York. The men also planned to shoot down Air National Guard planes with Stinger surface-to-air guided missiles. Stuff like this…
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Guns Kill, But Poverty’s the Trigger
Recently, longtime Catholic priest and freedom fighter Father Michael Pfleger and members of his parish—the Faith Community of St. Sabina in the South Side of Chicago—made an eloquent plea for justice by flying the American flag upside down in front of his church. Hoisting a flag with the union down is done very rarely and…