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Ramona Hyman Hosts Discussion for Oakwood University Church

Ramona Hyman Hosts Discussion for Oakwood University Church
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In May of 1978, the first time I, a Middle Georgia Girl, crossed the two-lane causeway connecting St. Simons Island to the Georgia mainland with my ne ....

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Eight must-read novels: The enduring contributions of African American women writers


Eight must-read novels: The enduring contributions of African American women writers
African American women writers have tackled the hard work of representing a diverse spectrum of lived and imagined experiences, including their own.
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Mules and Men (1935), anthropologist, creative writer and Harlem Renaissance upstart Zora Neale Hurston relays the evocative folktale “Why the Sister in Black Works Hardest.” Fatigued after the work of creation, god casts a massive bundle onto the earth. Intrigued by the mysterious object, a white Southern woman during the antebellum era asks her husband to retrieve it. Reluctant to tote the load himself, the master instructs a slave to fetch it. ....

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Allowed individuals sleeping outside to be prosecuted even when no other shelter was available the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals called this cruel and unusual punishment and a violation of the Constitution a number of communities trying to deal with their own homelessness problems had urged the Supreme Court to take up the case which it has declined to do leaving the fate of other anti homeless laws in doubt Pam Fessler n.p.r. News Washington awakes being held today in New Jersey for the police detective killed in last week s shooting in Jersey City N.P.R. s Jeff Brady says the detective was killed at a cemetery by 2 armed suspects who killed 3 other people at a kosher grocery store Jersey City police detective Joseph seals is being remembered for his work trying to get illegal guns off the streets tomorrow a procession is planned from the funeral home to a local church over the weekend a memorial service was held for Douglas Rodriquez an employee of the market he ll be buried this wee ....

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The gaijin of a Democratic rival as efforts to block government officials from cooperation with the investigation they are a peon Union is bracing for the United Kingdom s exit now that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson s Conservative Party has done well the national elections as Teri Schultz reports Bracks it was one of the top issues raised at a 2 day summit hosted by the e.u. Which Johnson did not attend e.u. Leaders were not in favor of Britain leaving the block and the years of negotiating a Breck s it deal and delaying its implementation have been frustrating for both sides now that Johnson has been reelected with a pledge to get Bracks it done the e.u. Says it expects that to happen sooner rather than later the E.U. s current president and his prime minister s son a modern welcome which he calls the clarity brought by the British vote we have all been waiting for a solution and a step forward to get out of this mess and I think now is a real chance to do this European Counci ....

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