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In Case, You Are Wondering, It’s Thanksgivukkah…

• November 29, 2013 • Comments Off

Posted in American History, Class, Cultural History, Food, Holidays, Immigration, Jews, Religion, Russia, Scandal, Sports, Television Series, The Rest of the World
Tags: Christmas, Eastern Europe, Egg Nog, Festival of Lights, Hanukkah, Holidays, Jewish holidays, Jews, Kale, Menurkeys, Mustard Greens, Pumpkin Pie, Seleucid Empire, Thanksgiving, The Gilded Age, Turkey, United States, Wisconsin

Louis C.K. on Being a Dad

• June 16, 2013 • 1 Comment

Posted in Celebrities/Royals, Class, Comedy, Cultural History, Health, Holidays, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Public Intellectualism
Tags: Children, Common Sense, Daddy, Daughters, Divorced Father, Family, Father, Fatherhood, Fathers, Holidays, Louis, Louis C.K., Relationships, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Sex, Single Fatherhood, United States

Friday Night Music, December 22, 2012: “Blue Christmas/Xmas (To Whom It May Concern),” Miles Davis and Bob Dorough, 1962

• December 21, 2012 • Comments Off

Posted in Class, Cultural History, Holidays, Love, Miles Davis, Music
Tags: "Blue Xmas", "Mad at Miles", African Americans, Black Relationships, Black Women, Blacks, Blue Christmas, Bob Dorough, Business, Carmen McRae, Christmas, Facebook, Gil Evans, Herbie Hancock, Holidays, Love, Miles Davis, Music, New York City, Pearl Cleage, Santa Claus, Schoolhouse Rock, SGI Buddhism, Small Day Tomorrow, The Holidays, Wayne Shorter, Xmas

A Very Short History of Our Modern Calendar

• January 3, 2012 • Comments Off

Posted in American History, Cultural History, Documentary, European History, Film, History, Holidays, Who I Am
Tags: Arts, Audie Murphy, Calendar, Chinese New Year, Classroom, Gregorian Calendar, Holidays, Janus, Jeremiah Warren, Monday, Movies, New Year, NewYear, Vimeo

It’s Father’s Day, and Daughters Need Their Dads Just As Sons Need Their Dads

• June 19, 2011 • 2 Comments

Posted in Black People, Class, Cultural History, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, People of Color, Race, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: Adoptive Fathers, Adults, African Americans, Black Daddies, Black Dads, Black Fatherhood, Black Fathers, Blacks, Child, Children, Daddies, Dads, Family, Father, Fatherhood, Fathers, Fathers Day, Growing Up, Holidays, Home, Love, Mother, Papas, Parent, Parenthood, Raising Children, Raising Kids, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Single Fatherhood, Stepfathers, Teens, United States, You Tube

As You Prepare to Drive to Your Memorial Day Destination, Take Time to Check Out Mark Fiore’s “Oil Anthem”

• May 27, 2011 • Comments Off

Posted in American Foreign Policy, American History, American Politics, Class, Consumer Fraud, Cultural History, Environmental Crimes, Journalism and Ethics, Obama Administration, Travel
Tags: BP, Cartoonist, Conoco, Consumers, Exxon Mobil, First Holiday Season 2011, Gas, Gas Grass Ass, Gasoline, Gouging, Greed, Holiday, Holidays, Mark Fiore, Memorial Day, Oil Companies, Oil Industry, Political Cartoons, Summer Vacation, United States, Unofficial Start to Summer

Happy Birthday to Me, Happy Birthday to You

• March 19, 2011 • 2 Comments

Posted in Who I Am
Tags: "As", African Americans, Arts, Astronomy, Birth, Birthday, Birthdays, Blacks, Earth, Herbie Hancock, Holidays, Love, Planets, Self-Love, Solar System, Stevie Wonder, Television, The Beatles

Those TSA Security Measures: Why Not Submit to The Body Scanners Instead?

• November 22, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in Africans, American Foreign Policy, American Politics, Arabs, Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Black People, Class, Crime, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Domestic Terrorism, Holidays, Memoir, Obama Administration, People of Color, Race, The Clintons, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, Travel, Whoopi Goldberg
Tags: 9-11, Airline Security, Airlines, al Qaeda, Americans, Americans of Color, Bladder Cancer Survivor, Body Pat-Downs, Body Scanner, Bustiers, Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Christmas, Civil Rights, Complaining, Complaints, CSIS, Domestic Terrorism, Draconian Measures, El Al, FBI, Genital Area, Genitals, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Holidays, Hysteria, International Terrorism, Interpol, Intrusiveness, Invasion of Privacy, Israel, Israelis, Jews, Lane Bryant, Monitoring, NBC Nightly News, Necessary Evil, New York City, Normality, One-Way Ticket, Outrage, Planes, Racial Profiling, Safety, Scotland Yard, Screening Process, Security, Shin Bet, Terrorist Sympathizers, Thanksgiving, The Holy Land, The View, Tom Sawyer, Transportation Security Administration, TSAs, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Unconstitutional, Underwear Bomber, United States, Wands

Happy Mother’s Day (with The Intruders: “I’ll Always Love My Mama,” 1973)

• May 9, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in Black People, Chicanos/Latinos, Class, Consumerism, Cultural History, Holidays, Love, Music, People of Color, The Intruders, Wisconsin, Women
Tags: "I'll Always Love My Mama", "Respect", African Americans, Black Women, Blacks, Children, Common Sense, Disco, Grandmothers, Holidays, Love, Married, Mother's Day, Motherhood, Single Black Female, Single Black Woman, The Intruders, The Philadelphia Sound, The Seventies, The United States, Unmarried

It’s My Day, and I’m Making the Most of It

• March 19, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in Who I Am
Tags: Aunt, Birthday, Cake, Candles, Champagne!, Daily Life, Daughter, Friend, Girlfriend, Great-Aunt, Holidays, Ice Cream, Lover, Me Myself and I (Not the Movie), Movies, Sister, Sushi

Christmas Songs Finale: Nat King Cole, “The Christmas Song”

• December 25, 2009 • Comments Off

Posted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Holidays, Love, Music, Nat King Cole, Television
Tags: "The Christmas Song", Christmas Dinner, Christmas Songs, Holidays, Job, Laughter, Love, Mel Tormé, Movies, Nat King Cole

Merry Christmas, Joyeux Noel, Feliz Navidad…Etc. Et Al.

• December 25, 2009 • Comments Off

Posted in Holidays, Love, Music
Tags: "White Christmas", Children, Christmas Songs, Cool Santa, Holidays, Never Growing Up, Reindeer, Santa Claus, Singing, Songs, Xmas

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