Progress is the wall behind which white America hides. (Even many Black leaders have absorbed and regurgitate the progress narrative.) White liberals expect Black people to applaud their efforts. But how is that a fair and legitimate expectation? Slavery, white supremacy, and racism are horrid, man-made constructs that should never have existed in the…
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Women Music March 2021 – Day 5 – Dionne Warwick
Dionne Warwick Marie Dionne Warwick, née Warrick, (born December 12, 1940) is an American singer, actress, television host, and former Goodwill Ambassador for the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. Warwick ranks among the 40 biggest hit makers between 1955 and 1999, based on her chart history on Billboard’s Hot 100 pop singles chart. She is one…
dVerse — OLN 285 — Clearing Power Lines
Great grinding jaws stalk dormant leafless stretches ofbirch and pine. Hawks huntfleeing hare and mice, afrightunder a pale yellow sun. For months, a crew of tree service people have been working to clear the power lines on a five-mile stretch of road (and probably more, but I only see them on the stretch I regularly…
2021 MOVIE DRAFT- ROUND 5 PICK 4- MSJADELI SELECTS- NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND — slicethelife
Round 5, Pick 4, March 4, 2021 Title: “Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind” Writer and Director: Hayao Miyazaki Genre: anime (Japanese animation) Length: 1 hour, 57 minutes Awards: 3 wins and 1 nomination Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind is a 1984 Japanese anime film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, based […]…
Women Music March 2021 – Day 4 – Jessi Colter
Mirriam Johnson (born May 25, 1943), known professionally as Jessi Colter, is an American country music artist who is best known for her collaborations with her husband, country singer and songwriter Waylon Jennings, and for her 1975 country-pop crossover hit “I’m Not Lisa“. Colter was one of the few female artists to emerge from the…
#FF — Mysterious Benefactor
PHOTO PROMPT © Roger Bultot Once a month for ten years, each of the six received a plain white envelope with two-hundred in twenties. It had gotten them by in thin times and made possible a few extras in good times – until their neighborhood’s gentrification meant others’ envelopes with eviction notices. Impending homelessness had…
k.d. lang — Women Music March 2021 – Day 3
k. d. lang Kathryn Dawn Lang OC AOE (born November 2, 1961), known by her stylized stage name k.d. lang, is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress. lang has won Juno Awards and Grammy Awards for her musical performances. Hits include the songs “Constant Craving” and “Miss Chatelaine“. A mezzo-soprano, lang has…
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