In so many ways, Dr. Damon Tweedy was fortunate. He grew up in an intact home with loving, strict, and steeped-in-the-church parents who were gainfully employed and taught him to aim high. Tweedy’s parents did not even finish high...
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23 December 2015
Christmas is traditionally a popular time to open a film, so it’s no surprise that a slew of new releases are hitting the multiplex this week.
Will any of them be able to gain a foothold following last week’s record-breaking...
09 October 2015
Thurgood Marshall is one of the most overlooked and underappreciated freedom fighters of the twentieth century. For more than two decades he was the preeminent lawyer for the National Association for the Advancement of...
14 August 2015
Book Review: This Non-Violent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made The Civil Rights Movement Possible
By Charles E. Cobb, Jr.
In my mind few American social movements have the gravitas and drama of...
08 July 2015
If you ever doubt the importance of good fathering, see Amy.
The documentary is about the sad life of Amy Winehouse (1983-2011), a British singer-songwriter whose name was almost synonymous with “self-destructive genius...
04 June 2015
One may wonder what there is new to say about the civil rights movement. In the immediate aftermath of Barack Obama’s first election it seemed to some as though the entire movement completed its mission and could be summed...
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