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QUIT PLAYIN’: We need Some New Farmers! - Texas Metro News
Black History comes in chapters, but the best of it is unwritten and cultural. It has always been how we do, what we do, when forced to do it that makes the Black experience unique. Long sentence, but you get the message! During and before the “Modern Age,” we as a people had a footprint
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Quit Playin: Shine Darrell, Shine!
By Vincent L. HallColumnist The 12th of May was one hell of a day When the news got around To all the seaport towns That the great Titanic was sinking …
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Quit playin': Time to “Talk Shop!” - Texas Metro News
I said I wasn’t gonna talk about “Black-on-Black” crime ever again. Not because it doesn’t happen. Not because it’s not an issue that we need to address internally. Not because some white folks use it as a red herring. Anytime you talk about police murders, Republicans want to talk about how Black
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Quit Playin: Vote for Them!
By Vincent L. HallColumnist Sunday, September 15, 1963, was just another day in the life of four little African American girls at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. …
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Quit Playin: Shine Darrell, Shine!
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Quit Playin': American Court Injustice - A Long Dirty History! - Garland Journal
“Turning Ahmaud Arbery into a victim after the choices that he made does not reflect the reality of what brought Ahmaud Arbery to Satilla Shores in his khaki shorts with no socks to cover his long, dirty toenails,” Laura Hogue told
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Quit Playin: Brothers…Where You At?
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QUIT PLAYIN’: May 11th – A National Day of Respect! – Texas Metro News
Asalam-Alakum! It was a moment I will remember for as long as I am Black. It was springtime, and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan was on his way to our church in South Dallas. New Hope Baptist Church is probably Dallas's most historic church, but on this day, it was about the upcoming Million
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QUIT PLAYIN: More Democrats, Less Hershey Kisses! - Texas Metro News
This editorial is a shameless plug for the Democratic Party. I'm not going to lie; I'm asking you to vote straight Democrat. The Texas Republican Legislature fixed it so you can't vote a straight ticket easily, but you can still do it. My previous plans for this week were scrapped after watching
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COMMENTARY: Always Right to Fight! - Voice and Viewpoint
After the horrific murders of some of our Asian sisters in Georgia, the press started asking whether or not the Black community would align with them to stop the senseless racist attacks against them spurred on by Trump and his merry band of White Supremacists. It was devastating to me to read many
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QUIT PLAYIN: It’s Tick-Tock Dummy! - Texas Metro News
By Vincent L. Hall Sunday, September 15, 1963, was just another day in the life of four little African American girls at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL. […] The post QUIT PLAYIN: It’s Tick-Tock Dummy! appeared first on Texas Metro News.
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QUIT PLAYIN: Will it Go Round in Circles? - Texas Metro News
The online magazine “Stereogum” posted a June 2019 article about one of my favorite musicians. Reading it led to me going back to do a review of the late Billy Preston and his moving musical catalog. His 1973 #1 hit is still in my groove cycle. “Will it Go Round in Circles' is almost 50
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Quit Playin: 2020: A Blurry Vision!
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QUIT PLAYIN: History: Best and Worst! - Texas Metro News
It was one of the proudest moments of my life. But, of course, all the proud moments in my life have been watching either of my three daughters navigate life and separate it from bullshit. The one thing that I never wanted to do was to raise clueless women! And to parents, parenthetically. If the
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QUIT PLAYIN’: Look at The Signs! - Texas Metro News
As we stand on the precipice of yet another Black History Month, I would desire that we as a people Quit Playin’ like so much has changed. Someone removed the “White Only” signs, but they left you the signals. Last week the Dallas Republican Party shuttled out their handpicked
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QUIT PLAYIN: Will it Go Round in Circles? - Garland Journal
By Vincent L. Hall The online magazine “Stereogum” posted a June 2019 article about one of my favorite musicians. Reading it led to me going back to do a review […] The post QUIT PLAYIN: Will it Go Round in Circles? appeared first on Garland Journal.
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QUIT PLAYIN’: Blowing Smoke…Again! - Garland Journal
By Vincent L. Hall It is far from a revelation to say that Americans are hurting right now. Between the pandemic and the ensuing economic hardships, people across the country […] The post QUIT PLAYIN’: Blowing Smoke…Again! appeared first on Garland Journal.
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QUIT PLAYIN’: 50th L-S-U-O R-I-T-N-A ? - Texas Metro News
Don’t feel language deficient or outside the loop if you can’t discern this title. If you were born in my generation, you knew to go to the Soul Train Scramble Board. It always unveiled the names of places, stars, or icons. SOUL TRAIN! That was easy. This October marks the 50th anniversary of
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QUIT PLAYIN’: A Black Brown Coalition! - Texas Metro News
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Black Press: Continuing A Legacy - Texas Metro News
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Fred Hammond – “Way Back When!” - Texas Metro News
June is Black Music Month, and all the melodies of life are converging to remind us how we got over. In the Black Church, those melodies envelop the songs of Zion, from the hymn book to the Good book. This Black History Month, you must check out Fred Hammond’s recent gospel medley “Way Back
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QUIT PLAYIN’: If She was Still Alive… - Texas Metro News
…Your Great Grandmo- ther would whip your ass! And if she didn’t, somebody else’s grandma might do it in her absence. Comedian and Oscar award winner Monique, has a niche for grabbing the spotlight. She speaks boldly, and in some cases, out of order, but her citations are anything but
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COMMENTARY: Always Right to Fight! | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — After the horrific murders of some of our Asian sisters in Georgia, the press started asking whether or not the Black community would align with them to stop the senseless racist attacks against them spurred on by Trump and his merry band of White Supremacists. It was devastating
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QUIT PLAYIN: More Democrats, Less Hershey Kisses! - Garland Journal
By Vincent L. Hall This editorial is a shameless plug for the Democratic Party. I'm not going to lie; I'm asking you to vote straight Democrat. The Texas Republican Legislature […] The post QUIT PLAYIN: More Democrats, Less Hershey Kisses! appeared first on Garland Journal.
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QUIT PLAYIN: Jose-Campos-Torres-Tyre-Nichols… - Garland Journal
By Vincent L. Hall “I had said I wasn't going to write no more poems like this.I had confessed to myself all along, tracer of life, poetry trends, That awareness, consciousness,poems that screamed of pain and the origins of pain and death had blanketed my tablets. But brother Torres, common ancient
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Quit Playin: Brothers…Where You At?
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QUIT PLAYIN’: Buy Bailey’s Book Because! - Texas Metro News
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