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  1. "Soul Train" Creator Don Cornelius Dead at 75

    2/1/12 10:09am by Nordette Adams
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    Don Cornelius

    In the below video of a 1974 Soul Train show, Soul Train creator Don Cornelius is interviewing the Godfather of Soul James Brown, and the clip includes a young Al Sharpton presenting Brown with an award. I thought this clip would be appropriate upon hearing that Don Cornelius has passed away at age of 75 because Soul Train did so much more for the black community than feature music.  Read more >

  2. Downloading Dad: Searching for Black History

    11/23/11 5:04pm by Nordette Adams
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    Slave cabins, by John Parsons via Flickr

    When my father, age 91, told me a few weeks ago that a woman, born Augustine Lemieux Stevens (a.k.a. Gussie), had died, I shuddered for moment in a spasm of grief. I grieved not because I knew Ms. Gussie but because I did not know her.  Read more >

  3. (UPDATE) Slavery: The Game a Teaser for a Dutch Documentary

    9/7/11 4:11pm by Nordette Adams
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    Slavery the Game video

    Editor's note: News sources are now reporting that the video fro "Slavery: The Game" is a promotion for a Dutch documentary series about slavery. -- Julie  Read more >

  4. Norway's Alleged Bomber and the Dangers of Racial Profiling

    7/30/11 4:24pm by Nordette Adams
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    Anders Breivik, Zumapress

    The bombing and shootings in Norway made me remember an experience I had with racial profiling in 2003, when I worked at an airport kiosk and encountered a Norwegian man taking pictures of workers loading a passenger plane. I wrote about the incident at my old blog, Confessions of a Jersey Goddess, in 2007.  Read more >

  5. (VIDEO) Big Fat Personal Data Leaks: Privacy and Controlling Your Personal Narrative

    2/1/11 9:00am by Nordette Adams
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    Gene Cooley

    "Show me your friends and I'll tell you who you are." That's one of those sayings we hear repeated and consider wise. You could probably come up with any number of similar quotes that suggest we can discern the nature and character of a person by what they say, do, wear, and even who they marry. Common sense right? But what if the person judging who you are is not looking at you in the real world but the virtual world?  Read more >

  6. Move Forward Because the World Has Changed: Obama's State of the Union

    1/25/11 10:36pm by Nordette Adams
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    Obama 2011 State of the Union Address

    It's time for Americans and our politicians to seek unity for the sake of the nation, and "instead of re-fighting the battles of the last two years, let's fix what needs fixing and move forward." That was the theme of President Barack Obama's second State of the Union address that he delivered to the nation tonight. More than once he used the phrase "move forward," appealing to Democratic and Republican Party legislators to work together, and finally, invoking the American Dream, he relayed a stream of images designed to inspire striving for our ideals.  Read more >

  7. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Intellectual Property, and Us

    1/17/11 12:35pm by Nordette Adams
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    Martin Luther King, Jr.

    This MLK day, I am sharing a public radio broadcast I heard on WWNO in New Orleans Saturday, "Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Public Imagination."  Read more >

  8. Official: Tell Your Children Fake Bath Salts Cause Death (Video)

    1/9/11 3:00pm by Nordette Adams
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    Ivory Wave "bath salts"

    Flourishing on the heels of the illegalization of synthetic marijuana, fake bath salts, often referred to as synthetic cocaine, have been sending young people to the hospital and the morgue across the United States. Doctors and law enforcement officers in Louisiana report that they are getting emergency calls from parents and sometimes the victims themselves saying, "Something is wrong. Help!" Users hallucinate and sometimes become paranoid and violent.  Read more >

  9. Haley Barbour to Free Scott Sisters: Beyond Race to the Bitter Aftertaste

    1/5/11 5:49pm by Nordette Adams
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    Jamie Scott

    Editor's update: A spokesperson for the Scott Sisters, Nancy Lockhart, announced tonight, Wednesday, January 5, that the Scott Sisters will be released from prison on Friday to start their lives on parole. By now you may have heard that on December 29, 2010, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, possibly a Republican contender for the presidency in 2012, has suspended indefinitely the life sentences of Jamie and Gladys Scott. You've probably also heard that Jamie Scott was on dialysis in prison and that a condition of her sister's release is Gladys must donate a kidney to Jamie as soon as possible by decree of Gov. Barbour. That condition is only one of many disturbing elements in the sisters' journey through hell to freedom.  Read more >

  10. (VIDEO) Prayers and Hopes Rise for Aretha Franklin

    12/10/10 3:25pm by Nordette Adams
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    Aretha Franklin

    The news about Aretha Franklin isn't good. It's not good at all. Reports from her family earlier this week say the 68-year-old singer, pop culture icon, Detroit resident, and first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has pancreatic cancer  Read more >

Nordette Adams

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Nordette Adams
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Nordette is a freelance journalist, published fiction writer, poet, and the mother of two children. She is also a BlogHer.com Contributing Editor and the African-American Books Examiner for Examiner.com. In addition, she covers literature about or related to her hometown, New Orleans. She has two personal blogs, WSATA and The Urban Mother's Book of Prayers.  ... She likes chatter.

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