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Flyin’ Around The Net: Letter From A Freed Slave To His Former Master

By derrick920 on  From renwl.org
From Letters Of Note: In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdan Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdan — who, since being emancipated , had moved to Ohio, found paid work, and was now supporting his family — responded spectacularly by way of the letter seen below (a letter which, according to newspapers at the time , he dictated). Rather than quote the numerous highlights in this letter, I’ll...Read Full Story

The Trouble With The Black Church: Maybe God Is Trying To Tell You Something

By derrick920 on  From renwl.org
Black Churches: Are They Addressing Our Concerns? From  LOOP 21 : Church used to be the cornstone of all activity, what is it now? In the past decade the black church’s image has been one of mega churches with its Bentley driving pastors. In addition to saving the souls of thousands, pastors branched out to embark on other endeavors outside of the church such as books, production companies, movies and columns in popular Black magazines. The visibility of the Pastor’s brand took...Read Full Story

The Object of My Affections (An End to Google Stalking TJ Holmes)

By blacksnob on  From blacksnob.com
For those who don't realize this, my fair Reese Peanut Butter Cup of the TV News aka "The Prince of West Memphis," Sir TJ Holmes got all kinds of married this month to a lovely woman who WAS NOT ME. I was crestfallen. There was a lot of me wandering around the Bat Cave singing Vesta's "Congratulations" while swilling the second cheapest bottle of halfway decent white wine I could find at Schnieder's on The Hill. Because TJ Holmes is now off the market and far, far away from my clutches (and...Read Full Story

The Root 100 Is Back! (Featuring Toure, TJ Holmes and Melissa Harris Perry)

By blacksnob on  From blacksnob.com
Toure Newark, NJ Mayor Cory Booker , musician Esperanza Spalding and writer Toure made The Root 100 list of influencers today. The annual rundown of movers and shakers this year includes a lot of folks I've written about here at The Snob over the past four years, including the prolific Melissa Harris Perry , TV show host and author  Marc Lamont Hill , my not-boyfriend on The Daily Show Wyatt Cenac , my other not-boyfriend who married some woman who wasn't me CNN's TJ Holmes , the best haircut...Read Full Story

Lost and Forgotten The Most Beautiful African-American Pinup of the 1950s?

By Artsuggest on
She appears on the cover of "Tawny Models" in the early 1950s, a smut digest pretending to be "figure studies for artists" to avoid censors. She appears in 4" x 5" photo sets sold from the back of magazines...and was photographed at the same sessions which produced the most famous pinup model of all, Bettie Page. Fifty years later, she appears on the cover of my book which could tell the story of every African-American model trying to find a place in front of the camera during the second half...Read Full Story
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