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November 1, 2009
Three Great Movies to Tag for Holiday Viewing
What movies are you watching for the holidays? Most people are more likely to think along the lines of movie classics like It's a Wonderful Life (1947) or the more modern The Preacher's Wife (1996) and megastar Jim Carrey's forthcoming Walt Disney blockbuster, A Christmas Carol when it comes to considering films to enjoy with one's family during the holidays. However, a number of films do a ...
October 26, 2009
Savannah State Continues Fine Art Series with Phil Starks' "Gaia Earth Goddess" Exhibit
The ancient stories told through the work of Savannah, Georgia, artist Phil Starks unfolded in a very modern setting with the opening of his Gaia Earth Goddess and Her 7 Matriarchal Daughters exhibition, scheduled to run from October 23 to November 19, 2009, at the Savannah State University (SSU) Art Gallery. Starks has participated in a number of group shows over the past few years, including ...
October 11, 2009
Two Literary Laureates Celebrated: Herta Mϋller and Amiri Baraka
The celebration of one literary laureate kicked off when the Swedish Academy in Stockholm awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature to German-Romanian Herta Mϋller October 8, 2009. The celebration of another literary laureate got underway October 7, when Amiri Baraka, one of African America's greatest statesmen of letters, turned 75, and plans were announced to honor the venerable author ...
September 24, 2009
The Last of the Seven
On the same day that Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson died, my Uncle Lendward Griffin, Sr., also left this world for greener spiritual pastures. Once the news of his death sunk all the way in, I thought to myself, Wow, he left this world in some really fantastic company. Uncle Len was not a public megastar like Fawcett and Jackson but in his own way he was as unique and worthy of ...
September 17, 2009
Forgiveness off the Top of My Head
I have watched a number of friends, family members, and public officials over the past few years argue with themselves about how much they do or do not believe in love because they, in some terrified hour, had reached the conclusion that without forgiveness there can be no love and forgiveness is not always an easy thing to give. What, after all, does one do with the pain as yet lingering ...
September 12, 2009
Musician-Artist Don Dean's Eclectic Human Condition
Popular media references to the 1960s musical British Invasion headed by history-changing acts like the Beatles and Rolling Stones are far more common--at least on the U.S. side of the planet--than references to the corresponding African America's Rhythm and Blues invasion of the United Kingdom that took place during the same period. That was when classic giants of the genre--think Otis ...
Reading Rumi after 9/11
"The lovers crawl in and out of your alley,They bathe in drips of blood; and not finding you, they give up and leave.I am forever stationed at your door like the earth,While others come and go like the wind."--Jelaluddin Rumi Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual Jelaluddin Rumi during the early ...
September 6, 2009
The Unique Genius of Gullah Artist Allen Fireall
When considering that an artist for the past twenty years has been producing and selling more than 100 original paintings per year, it becomes difficult to think of the individual as one of the South's best kept brilliant secrets. Yet, despite the fact that he was selected one of the "top five collectible artists in the region" by Coastal Arts and Antiques Magazine and that ...
September 5, 2009
Michael Jackson: A Moonwalking Giant Lies Down to Rest
While investigations surrounding the death of Michael Jackson steadily progressed and media frenzy over different facets of his life continued, the great entertainer and philanthropist himself was laid to rest September 3, 2009, at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. Jackson's funeral came just over two months, and two unsettling autopsies, after his death on June 25, 2009. ...
September 1, 2009
Days to Remember in September 2009
Before the hours of insanity and annihilation that changed world history on September 11, 2001, the month of September was noted by members of my family primarily as the birth month for at least a half dozen individuals. It remained, of course, their month after 9/11, but the shadow of that event tends to lessen the glow of birthday candles and soften the volume of songs and laughter. ...
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