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Keith Josef Adkins
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Dec 31, 2008 08:55 AM
If you talk to most Christians [and most of them, in my experience, lean toward conservative], ending a prayer, sermon, benediction, or a holiday blessing in Jesus' name is paramount and without question, mandatory. It is, more or less, the Christian...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Dec 30, 2008 09:44 AM
Grammy-award winner Freddie Hubbard passed away after suffering a heart attack. He was 70. In most jazz circles, Hubbard was considered one of the best trumpeters on the planet. In fact, many considered Hubbard the equal contender to Miles Davis. Now...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Dec 29, 2008 09:10 AM
James Alan Fox of Northeastern University released a devastating report today: murder among black teenage boys is on the rise. In most enlightened corners the topic of black on black violence remains front and center. From Haki Madhubuti to Sonia Sanchez...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Dec 26, 2008 01:46 PM
The Legend. The Sizzle. The Woman. Singer/Actress Eartha Kitt passed away on December 25. During the Thanksgiving holiday a friend of a friend was in New York City and mentioned Ms. Kitt was battling cancer and was no longer interested in chemo and treatment....
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Dec 23, 2008 03:00 PM
They say this is the season for giving, well, I have a few special requests for a few holiday givers. 1. Stress not!!! 2. Support films [or in most corners, movies] on Christmas day that illuminate the complexity of all people. Here's some suggestions:...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Dec 19, 2008 07:38 AM
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Dec 18, 2008 08:06 AM
Most of the actors I know are knocking heads about the possibility of a Screen Actors Guild strike . And most of them, the celebrity version too, feel a strike is a bad idea during this Economic Uncertainty. Look, SAG has its right to demand a better...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Dec 17, 2008 08:19 AM
According to a NYTimes piece by Sam Roberts , two-parent households in the black community are on the rise. [Thanks to the middle-class and an influx of "black" immigrants from the Caribbean, Mali, Sudan, etc.] The increase is also due to an official...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Dec 15, 2008 11:47 AM
New York Governor David Patterson is peeved. He's confessed that the Saturday Night Live skit that mocked his blindness and cocaine history as well as his inability to properly govern a state was in poor taste. Spoofing politicians isn't a foreign entity...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Dec 12, 2008 08:10 AM
President George W. Bush. Photo Credit: Scholars & Rogues If you frequent my blog you know I'm a product and survivor of the Midwest and its bible-thumping trenches. And I've heard it all when it comes to Christian faith: Jesus' Second Coming would...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Dec 11, 2008 09:58 AM
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Photo Credit: ifilmpro.com Last night my friend Claire called with an urgent invite to a screening of David Fincher 's Golden Globe-nominated Benjamin Button . Claire had a sizable part in the beginning of the film...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Dec 10, 2008 07:48 AM
photo credit: claytonboen.com Everyone knows by now that Jay Leno will be stepping into the NBC 10 pm weekly spot and he's expected to make $30 million dollars a years. Hey, I'm not hating, in these troubling [or should I say reality-checking] times any...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Dec 8, 2008 07:49 AM
Mike Leigh's film HAPPY GO LUCKY. Photo credit: IGN.com Over the weekend I saw Mike Leigh 's [Secrets and Lies and Vera Drake] Happy Go Lucky . I'm not sure if I would have sought out the film by natural curiosity, but it's Writers Guild free screenings...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Dec 5, 2008 09:48 AM
Barack Hussein Obama's Hawaiian official birth certificate. I have to be honest: I didn't want to blog about the latest crazy regarding Obama's official birthplace and the possibility he may not be eligible for president. I thought I'd be feeding into...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Dec 4, 2008 08:26 AM
So the economy is in a serious slump. I receive calls and emails nearly every day from friends and fam who are worried about mortgage payments, car notes, gas, groceries... and there's an increasing number of folks looking for roommates. You name it,...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Dec 3, 2008 08:32 AM
Odetta. During my "real education" years, you know, post-undergrad and confused, there were five major players in the shaping of my consciousness: Malcolm X, James Baldwin, Henry Dumas, Toni Morrison and Odetta . I would sit in my living room in San Francisco,...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Dec 1, 2008 11:04 AM
Nassau County Walmart. Photo Credit: AP I'm sure I'm one of millions who hit the stores early on Friday to partake in low cost goodies. I'm sure I'm one of millions who are concerned or directly affected by the sinking economy and the idea of Sony plasma...
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