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		<title>Sending Etta James Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Highlights from the funeral of Jamesetta Hawkins, professionally and popularly known as Etta James.  The Reverend Al Sharpton before his eulogy: And during his eulogy, which was prefaced by a note of condolence from the President and the First Lady: Christina Aguilera horning in on the legacy.  Sorry, but I think that she made it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6814425&amp;post=14146&amp;subd=thisblksistaspage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some Saturday Love: Prestia, Garibaldi, Pickett, and Tamalier of &#8220;Tower of Power&#8221; Do &#8220;Squib Cakes/What Is Hip?&#8221; Without the Horn Section, 1998</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE (1/28/12, 3:51 p.m.): Okay, I made a boo-boo. It&#8217;s not &#8220;Squib Cakes,&#8221; it is &#8220;Oakland Stroke.&#8221; Sooooo, sorry. I was actually looking for a video studio version of &#8220;Can&#8217;t You See?&#8221; from 1974&#8242;s Back to Oakland, which, next to their debut album, is one of my favorites from Tower of Power.  It&#8217;s possibly their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6814425&amp;post=14131&amp;subd=thisblksistaspage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Etta &#8220;Miss Peaches&#8221; James&#8217; Viewing and Funeral Plans Announced</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For all you gospel lovers&#8230;she got her start in church, after all. Again, sorry that I haven&#8217;t been on this death and that of Johnny Otis as well only a few days later last week.  Johnny Otis helped to give Etta her start.  But I have a lot on my plate at this moment. Here [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6814425&amp;post=14115&amp;subd=thisblksistaspage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Those Posters From Facebook, &#8220;One Love, One Marriage&#8221; and &#8220;Family Values&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This one above came from the Keith Olbermann Fan Page. And this one immediately above came from Thulani Davis&#8217; feed from a Texas friend of hers. What gets me is that yesterday, very right-wing Christian South Carolinians were willing to excuse a man, Newt Gingrich, whose third wife was sleeping with him before his second [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6814425&amp;post=14091&amp;subd=thisblksistaspage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Louis and &#8220;Louis&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kalamu&#8216;s NeoGriot turned me onto both of these films, although I&#8217;ve already seen Satchmo on educational TV in California long ago. Apparently, the recent move towards making some silent films like The Artist and Silent Movie is not something new. This is a trailer from a silent film called Louis that was released in 2010. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6814425&amp;post=14081&amp;subd=thisblksistaspage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Million Signatures to Recall Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was thrilled to hear about this on Tuesday.  I&#8217;m sure hundreds of thousands of other Wisconsinites were thrilled as well.   The last time I heard they wanted to have a little over 750,000 signatures to make it right. But 1.9 million signatures makes it spectacular. When the election is certified, it will mark the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6814425&amp;post=14051&amp;subd=thisblksistaspage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>That Cartoon from Facebook: &#8220;Who Increased the National Debt?&#8221; (w/Update)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, there is always a first time for an Internet scam. The chart below IS a scam. I was scammed. I&#8217;ve removed my original comment about this chart after a frequent commenter below suggested that it may not be what many people think that it is. The correction, from Dem leader Pelosi&#8216;s office, is this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6814425&amp;post=14045&amp;subd=thisblksistaspage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The President at The Apollo Theatre in Harlem, New York, January 19, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, Obamaholics, this is the full speech above. And immediately above, this is the video of that particular bit of a song made famous by Al Green, before he met with those hot grits and later, the ministry. Later, Angry Black Lady via TalkingPointsMemo introduced us all to two more previous Obama croons, one when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6814425&amp;post=14031&amp;subd=thisblksistaspage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Surprise: Baby Daddy Antwaun Cook Betraying Fantasia With Other Jumpoffs, and Trying to Get Back With His Wife</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wendy Williams has her nerve excusing women like Alicia Keys for pursuing a man to the detriment of his marriage.  It&#8217;s been alleged that some of this kind of criticism is color-based: Fantasia Barrino is a dark-skinned woman chasing a light-skinned man&#8212;-Antwaun Cook.  That being said, what Wendy said upwind does have the ring of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6814425&amp;post=14021&amp;subd=thisblksistaspage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Will You Celebrate The King Holiday?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They are going to fix a quote on the new memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The one to which Maya Angelou particularly took umbrage. The correct quote from the Saint of the Sixties is, &#8220;Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6814425&amp;post=14005&amp;subd=thisblksistaspage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some Monday Love: &#8220;Doc Martin Theme,&#8221; Brit TV and &#8220;Doc Martin,&#8221; and Being Multiregion</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First of all, the composer of the Doc Martin theme is Colin Towns.  Whenever the show comes on, I turn up the volume on my headphones to catch every nuance.  I love it. Towns is 63, and began his career as a composer and songwriter when he was a 13-year-old pianist playing at weddings and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6814425&amp;post=13985&amp;subd=thisblksistaspage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Boy, That Was a Short Vacay: Eddie Long Back at New Birth, and a New Video Shows Vanessa in the Audience with Their Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was checking earlier this week about anything on Eddie Long, but it didn&#8217;t come until Thursday&#8212;-when I wasn&#8217;t checking.  Can you believe this video commercial above that is running in the Atlanta area?  Apparently he showed for the New Year&#8216;s services and proclaimed that he was back. Oretha Williams over at Elev8 has the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6814425&amp;post=13977&amp;subd=thisblksistaspage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some Saturday Love: Eric Clapton, &#8220;Change the World,&#8221; 1996</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was on the audio loop over at the local Starbucks, and immediately, my heart just went mooshy, mushy.  Both Clapton&#8216;s and BabyFace&#8216;s renditions are really good&#8212;-they were symbiotic together&#8212;-but Eric&#8217;s got me this morning.  I had to stand with my coffee and listen to the song to the very end before I could leave [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6814425&amp;post=13966&amp;subd=thisblksistaspage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Dark Girls&#8221; Documentary by Bill Duke and Channsin Berry Comes to the East Coast</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry that I am late for the train for this one.  Above is Bill Duke and Channsin Berry talking briefly about the flick. Straight from the Dark Girls official website, here are the dates, times and locations of where this documentary will be shown in the coming days and weeks. Jan 13th &#8211; Apollo Theater, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6814425&amp;post=13957&amp;subd=thisblksistaspage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Robert Champion FAMU Case:  It&#8217;s a Hate Crime Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t care what anyone says.  That it was &#8220;all in fun.&#8221;  That it &#8220;separates the men from the boys,&#8221;  even though young women were also included in beatdowns, and possibly even worse.  No, hazing is a crime. And now, I think that Robert Champion&#8217;s death was also a hate crime, because Robert&#8217;s parents have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6814425&amp;post=13945&amp;subd=thisblksistaspage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pat Buchanan: Gone At Last From MSNBC, Hopefully Forever</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Enough was enough.  Thank you, Color of Change, for putting the pressure on MSNBC to suspend this racist crank, in a campaign that&#8217;s been going on since October 2011.   However, Buchanan definitely merits firing, not suspension. Conservative commentator Pat Buchanan has been suspended indefinitely from MSNBC, according to a statement from that network’s President [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6814425&amp;post=13933&amp;subd=thisblksistaspage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Those Jennifer Hudson, Charles Barkley, and Janet Jackson Weight-Loss Commercials</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Companies targeting black folks using commercials is nothing new.  But for weight-loss products? Janet&#8216;s may be the sexiest one, but Charles is playing it strictly for laughs to get the guys getting up and getting it going.  And Jennifer?  Well, before and after always tells the tale, but this new version&#8212;-of Jennifer&#8217;s final weight&#8212;-is so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6814425&amp;post=13914&amp;subd=thisblksistaspage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>That Cartoon From Facebook, &#8220;Genius&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Facebook poster came from Julian Lennon&#8216;s Facebook feed.  He&#8217;s come up with some great ones in the past and probably will in the future.  One could say that Julian is a work in progress. Yes, this is the son of John and Cynthia Powell Lennon.   The Jude of &#8220;Hey Jude,&#8221; Julian is now 48.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6814425&amp;post=13906&amp;subd=thisblksistaspage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Olympic Sprinter Lee Evans, 63, Has a Brain Tumor and No Health Insurance (w/Update)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE (1/6/12): Two-time Olympic champion Lee Evans was released from Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley two days after undergoing surgery to remove a tumor in his brain. He plans to remain in the area for a month to recover before returning home with his wife to Nigeria, sister Rosemary Evans said Thursday. Evans, 63, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6814425&amp;post=13860&amp;subd=thisblksistaspage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>That Cartoon From Facebook: &#8220;Hershey Bar&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know the name of it, but I call it, &#8220;Hershey Bar&#8221; just the same. This particular cartoon came from George Takei. You know, Sulu from Star Trek: The Original Series.  That Takei. Well, if you don&#8217;t know, Takei sometimes drops some interesting knowledge on his FB feed.  This was one of his recent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6814425&amp;post=13845&amp;subd=thisblksistaspage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kimberly Anyadike Becomes The Youngest Black Woman To Fly Solo Across The U.S.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Sorry, but this video appears not to be working on this or the other couple of sites where it is located.  CNN does not possess or support any longer or has not yet put up the video of Kimberly&#8217;s feat this past December.  When I find one that works, I will post.) I wrote about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6814425&amp;post=13834&amp;subd=thisblksistaspage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got a few hundred &#8220;friends&#8221; (real friends and relatives) on Facebook that occasionally send me some great cartoons, &#8220;posters,&#8221; and photos with quotes, political and otherwise. So I&#8217;ve decided to inaugurate yet another feature called &#8220;That Cartoon From Facebook.&#8221; Normally, I would present the cartoon (photo, poster) and which group or individual (if possible) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6814425&amp;post=13824&amp;subd=thisblksistaspage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[A history that makes sense, I hope. Well, here I am on the third day of the New Year.  Frankly, it feels like Monday, when Monday itself felt like Saturday.  Whatever.  Next year, the holidays fall on a Monday, so I won&#8217;t be thrown off course like this time. I thought that I would start [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6814425&amp;post=13821&amp;subd=thisblksistaspage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 02:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[London from BBC One.  Fireworks display near the Millenium Wheel, against a silhouetted Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament (shades of V for Vendetta).  Unfortunately, by the time Queen and Freddie Mercury is highlighted, there&#8217;s a drop in volume that is remedied later. I&#8217;ve tried to find videos from other European countries, Asia and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6814425&amp;post=13806&amp;subd=thisblksistaspage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The New Year, 2012, Arrives</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This is the full fireworks display above; the first video was only a little over a minute long.) Above, this was in Sydney, Australia.  Leave it to the Aussies to do it right.  Of course, the Samoans were the first. The mood was festive in the South Pacific island nation of Samoa, where, for once, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6814425&amp;post=13802&amp;subd=thisblksistaspage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Songs:  ABBA, &#8220;Happy New Year&#8221; 1980</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This song was not released as a single from the album Super Trooper until 1999; ABBA had broken up in 1983.  At the time of this song, both marriages of Björn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Fältskog  and Anni-Frid Lyngstad with Benny Andersson had sundered or were on the verge of ending.  The mostly happy, infectious dance [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6814425&amp;post=13780&amp;subd=thisblksistaspage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eddie Long&#8217;s New Birth School to Close January 4; 221 Students Affected, But That&#8217;s Not All That&#8217;s Affected</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More bad news for Eddie Long and for New Birth.  The walls are tumbling down.  From The Root: Atlanta&#8216;s New Birth Christian Academy students are now scrambling for a new place in which to learn after they were informed that their school will be shut down Jan. 4. The school, founded by the controversial Bishop [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6814425&amp;post=13769&amp;subd=thisblksistaspage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rapper Heavy D Died of a Blood Clot After Long Transatlantic Plane Flight</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The news is more than two hours old.  From The L.A. Times: An autopsy performed on rapper Heavy D, who collapsed and died suddenly on Nov. 8, found that the cause of death was a pulmonary embolism, according to the report released Tuesday. The coroner&#8217;s office found that Dwight Arrington Myers, better known as Heavy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6814425&amp;post=13719&amp;subd=thisblksistaspage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Songs: Luther Vandross and Chaka Khan, &#8220;Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 05:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chaka herself shot this over the bow of her Facebook stream this Christmas Eve evening, mainly because of its quality, so I am sure that others are also grooving on this lovely walk back in time that looks as if it happened in the early 1990s.  This is big Luther, as opposed to svelte Luther, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6814425&amp;post=13705&amp;subd=thisblksistaspage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Songs: The Ramsey Lewis Trio, &#8220;Egg Nog,&#8221; 1964</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is possibly the only music on The Ramsey Lewis Trio&#8216;s second volume of jazz interpretations of Christmas songs and music isn&#8217;t laden with strings.   Additionally, this is an original Ramsey Lewis composition. It features Eldee Young on bass, Steve McCall on drums, and Ramsey Lewis on piano.  I am guessing that Lewis is also [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6814425&amp;post=13683&amp;subd=thisblksistaspage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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