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Introducing 'The Jazprose Diaries'
These diaries discuss Art, Culture, and Race with the mindful eye of a memoirist. Come on in. The water's fine.
 • Andrew Jazprose Hill
Tired of the Daily Upset? Sing, Sing, Sing!
There's something missing from the growing protests against ICE and the upside-down world of America's new global gangsterism. Music.
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Can Pope Leo XIV’s Recent Call for Hope Undo the Damage of Barack Obama’s?
The less than historic presidency of the nation’s first Black president ushered in a dark age the new pope has decided to confront.
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Kids Still Say the Darnedest Things
And whether funny or sad, life still makes the darnedest impression on them, and Anthony Rizzuto's photos make that perfectly clear..
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Is It Time to Lower the Age of Consent?
Epstein thought so. Now that others have chimed in, maybe it's time to debate the wisdom of making 14 & 15 year-olds sexually legal.
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What The Media Failed to Say about the Shooting of a Virginia School Teacher by a 6-Year-Old Boy
The backstory behind the trial's split screen reveals a troubling racial context the media prefers to ignore.
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When Divine Light Comes Calling
How an album of baroque music by Wynton Marsalis and Kathleen Battle became a catalyst for a surprising moment that triggered the musical equivalent of…
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Why Jamie Lee Curtis Is Still Not Dead Yet
Stalked, attacked, and killed twice in the 'Halloween' slasher movies, the actor and many others her age and older have found new life by reinventing…
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Don't Look Now, But You're Being Watched
A lesson from Isak Dinesen's 'Out of Africa' shows up in the lives of news anchors Felicia Jeter and Belva Davis, and cello-playing deacon Chester…
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What Would Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid Say about the Trouble We're In?
As America wrestles with polarization in the run up to its 250th anniversary, we can learn a lot from the films of Robert Redford about who we are and…
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'Hamilton' and the Rise of the Cheeky Americans
The hip-hop musical finally makes it to the big screen. But will it be enough to bring heart to an increasingly heartless America?
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Why the Slut-Shaming of Jack Kerouac's Black Lover Still Matters
After the Beat Generation writer trashed her in a novel, Alene Lee found revenge in an anonymity that stands as a cautionary tale for today's America.
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Difficult Times Call for Superman, Jesus, and Arthur Ashe
They may not be the most likely trio of superheroes, but I'll take all the help I can get.
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The Cruel Redeemer and the 'Slave Mistress' Great Grandmother of Julian Bond
It's a history many folks would like to forget, but what better time than Juneteenth to remember one of the stories that makes America what it is.
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