My Talks With Ex-Slaves by Dr. Joseph Bailey
What most impressed me was listening to their real, plain, and simple Common Sense principles of “Right” living they gained through observation, trial and tribulations, and reflection.
This is not a temporary drought. California’s climate is changing, and according to some sources the previous long-term climate change in California lasted 200 years or more. The solution is a systemic readjustment of California’s agriculture industry.
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To ancient Eastern Philosophers, “Vivid” referred to the Cosmic-Spirit—the life-force energy (Universal Energy or Ch’i, Ether, Prana) that penetrates, pervades, and enlivens all things. By being essential to life it conveys the idea of freshness in whatever is full of life inside or outside the mind.
Continue reading …It snowed in Cairo for the first time in 100 years. The United Kingdom had the strongest tidal surge in 60 years. In January, Alaskans mothballed their jackets, and bears, like little children, refused to go to sleep.
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The expression: “It is darkest before the dawn” characterizes my sense of what is now nationally going on in the Selfhoods of many Black Americans. This sense is drawn out of the atmosphere of something drastic happening, of which most are at a loss to pin-point what it is. Contributing to this sense are rumblings of USA people’s dissatisfaction and from increasing numbers of telephone calls and visits to my home from those I have not heard from in years.
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The American Winter is reshaping America just as the Arab Spring reshaped Egypt and Tunisia. One-by-one corrupt politicians have been driven out of office, just like the Arab Spring, and a populist attitude has taken command with the view that the old way of governing must die.
Continue reading …Though their mediums of exchange were material objects (“Value”), their focus was to satisfy basic needs (“Values”). But then things of “Value” (objects to which a ‘price tag’ can be placed) began being viewed for their ability to satisfy their confused ideas of “Worth” (beauty) inside “Values”
Continue reading …What Can the New Black Church Learn From the Funeral Ceremony of Nelson Mandela? By Dr. Salim Faraji
January 12, 2014 2 Comments
What meaning does Mandela’s ancestral funerary rites have for the North American context specifically African American religion and the Black Church tradition?
Continue reading …“The NSA threw the kitchen sink at the FATA,” one former intelligence official told the Post. “But if you wanted huge coverage of the FATA, NSA had 10 times the manpower, 20 times the budget, and 100 times the brainpower” of smaller intelligence units.
Continue reading …Millions of Americans Are Ineligible for Healthcare Coverage Under Obamacare — Why?
October 17, 2013 No CommentMillions of Americans who have been waiting to apply for healthcare insurance under the new Obamacare program were shocked this week when they applied for benefits through the new health insurance exchanges and were denied. These are the same people that the new healthcare reform is supposed to help
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