Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime performance; brilliant. Alas, that is not an shared view. My response to those who emphasized this was the worst Super
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The February Thing: A Family Birthday and History
There was a moment when my mother, pregnant with me, hears of the 1958 world’s fair human zoo of an African village populated with Congolese.
Juneteenth: News, History and Bite Size
Snacks exist to ease hunger between meals, but, snacks are not a meal. Snacks aren’t the healthiest of foods; loaded with sugar, salt and fat,
Balancing on Unstable Surfaces: Phillis in Boston, The Real James Bond was Dominican and A Beautiful Resistance
I was born in 1958, the same year China Achebe, a Nigerian novelist wrote “Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify
Deconstructing Deconstruction: Food, Music and the Police
It’s popular in the culinary world; deconstructed. Visually stunning servings that evoke the tastes, smells and texture of familiar foods. Each component visible on the
Balancing History: Mob Rules by the Month
Here it is, the kind of obligatory Black history month blog post. The month was proposed by in 1926 by black historian, Carter G Woodson;
Balancing on Unstable Surfaces 