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Aug 25 – Sep 07, 2022
- Sexual Freedom Summit: It's about Males, Females, and X Controlling Their Bodies
"I was in a Swedish home watching TV with a family including their five-year-old child and when nudity came on the screen. They thought nothing of the nudity. However, when violence came on, the mother grabbed the child and put her hands over his eyes," says sexual literacy expert Dr. Mark Schoen.
- American Prophet (Frederick Douglass) – Entertaining, not Liberating
The thoughts of historian and Port of Harlem contributor CR Gibbs rushed to my forethoughts. An imaginary Gibbs appeared on my shoulder and reminded me: TV shows, movies, and plays are for entertainment, if you want facts and a balanced story, read some books, bro.
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- Anything's Possible
I wrongly assumed the movie would mirror Billy Porter's persona and tremendously overload my senses. However, in his directing debut, the Pittsburgh native presents a story that is refreshingly fresh.
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Jul 28 – Aug 10, 2022
- My First Thirty Days Out of Prison
Though I was absent for over three decades, it felt so natural being with them emotionally and mentally; it was as if I had never left home. I listened to family members engage in frivolous and at times ridiculous arguments. All I could do is take it all in with a slight smile and thank God I’m finally home.
- Multiple Sclerosis Has Been my Blessing
My name is Kori. I am 39-years-old, from Indiana, and living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Before you even get that thought out: “I’m so sorry to hear that.” STOP! Multiple Sclerosis has been my blessing.
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- POH at APPEAL Market in DC - New Longer Hours
Every first and third Saturdays of each month for about the past six years, shoppers stroll into the APPEAL office in Northeast Washington to buy goods “produced by Black people." The market now opens one hour earlier at 1p starting Sat, Aug 6.
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Jul 14 – Jul 27, 2022
- Pro-Life, Pro-Birth, Pro-Choice, Pro-Abortion, and The Bible: You Decide
When it comes to abortion, both sides have cherry picked Bible verses that they believe validates their point of view.
Image: Nigerian Chidiebere Sunday Ibe created the image when he was a first-year student at Ukraine’s Kyiv Medical University.
- Monkeypox Spreads in US, Vaccine Limited, is it Like HIV?
Statistics picturing the spread on monkeypox as heterosexual in Africa, but gay in the rest of the world is reminiscent of the spread of HIV. Theo W. Hodge, Jr., MD, explained, “Certainly, the notation of women in Africa versus men who have sex with men (MSM) in Europe and the USA is reminiscent of the HIV epidemic. That is where it stops . . ."
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- Activities
Under Religion see the mass baptismal in Gary and Exonerated Five’s Yusef Salaam’s “I was closest to God in prison” online. Under Music, see the slew of music programs on the Bladensburg waterfront. On POH Talk Radio, we talk with Sheryll Cashin about her latest book “White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality.”
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Jun 30 – Jul 13, 2022
- Supreme Court on Abortion: Women Cannot Be in Control
Our second peeve related to this issue: One of 7 Black men voted for trump. How many of those men will now face paternity lawsuits and child support hearings? How many will now face jail time or prison records for activities birthed from dealing with child support issues? How many will say, “that B should have gotten an abortion?”
- Museum Changes Name from African-American to Black
The move to replace “African American” with “Black” as part of the name change has met some critiquing. Before the founding of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in 2016, the Southside Chicago institution had been the largest caretaker of African-American culture in the United States.
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- How Did Moses Hide Amongst the Egyptians?
An Israelite baby named Moses (Muslims call him Musa) was raised in the Pharaoh’s house. He was raised right under the Egyptian leader’s nose. Yet, the Pharaoh had no idea that he wasn’t Egyptian. Hmmm! How was that even possible?
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Jun 16 – Jun 29, 2022
- Reparations Interim Report Released
The proposed remedies range from the specific to the vague. One specific remedy by would “prohibit for-profit prison companies from operating within the system (i.e. companies that control phone calls, emails, and other communications)” and another to “provide funding for free tuition to California colleges and universities.”
- A South African Liberator’s Story in His Own Language
Now in 2022, the 90th year since Plaatje died, the biography “Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje - Morata Baabo” by Modiri Molema is being published for the first time in the language in which it was written. Plaatje traveled in Europe and North America, and exchanged letters with WEB Du Bois and Tuskegee Institute's Robert Russa Moton.
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- International Conference on James Baldwin
La Maison Baldwin’s International Conference on James Baldwin proceedings will be recorded for the creation of a post-conference archive of contemporary thinking on James Baldwin, to be made available to the public by subscription and free to high schools and universities worldwide.
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