For MumiaAbu-Jamal, I am Ron Kovic author of Born on the Fourth of July. According to recent news accounts, shattered and shredded body parts and remains of U.S. servicemen were found in a landfill. Despite political spins, this sobering image is a telling, true-life metaphor... Read more...
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03/02/2012,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in African-American Awareness,
Black People,
Blair History Month,
Books/Magazine,
Do The Knowledge,
E-Book,
Edu-tainment
LIBRARIES MAY seem obsolete when compared with digital media but there are still many who believe that giving a child a real book can make a difference in his life. Of those people, Vanesse Lloyd-Sgambati stands proudly as the founder of a once small book fair that is celebrating its 20th yea... Read more...
' Rosa Our Rosa by Mumia Abu-Jamal For Mumia Abu-Jamal, I am Goldie, his daughter. For Mumia Abu-Jamal, I am Frances Goldin. We gather today over 140 years after the birthday of Rosa Luxemburg – The brilliant thinker, writer, activist and ... Read more...
Apple's iMessage is killing off the overpriced text message, at least for a narrow group of iPhone owners. Graphic designer Neven Mrgan posted this chart showing how his text messaging use changed after Apple released iOS 5 with iMessage. As you can see, it dropped dramatically. Most of Mrgan'... Read more...
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19/01/2012,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News,
Stupititity All Stars,
Technology,
World News
Google VP and Internet evangelist Dr. Vinton Cerf writes in the New York Times that Internet access isn’t a right - it’s just a tool towards enabling free speech. Dr. Vinton Cerf, a Google VP and its chief Internet evangelist, took to the pages of the New York Times late last week with a opinion... Read more...
I write about a lot of things and lately I have been writing heavy but today I actually don’t want to write about one particular topic. I just want to free write and reflect on a few things in my life, if you don’t mind. One of my earliest memories as a human being/child was my grandmother com... Read more...
Ok So as promised we're giving away 2 tickets to see Idle Warship @WorldCafeLive this Thursday January 19th...for free. All the lucky party who wants & has the knowledge (read as: does the googling) to go has to do is... answer these 3 questions. 1. When & by whom was Idle Warship created? ... Read more...
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10/01/2012,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Do The Knowledge,
Factoid,
Freeing Slaves,
From The Vault,
News
Whether It Is New Year's Eve or "Watch Night" or "Freedom's Eve", the Black Community in America Celebrates Freedom from Slavery as of 11:59 pm, December 31, 1862. "On that night, Blacks came together in churches and private homes all across the nation, anxiously awaiting news that the Emancipati... Read more...
There are two types of people in this world: the ones who share videogame controllers and the ones who don’t. Which one are you? It came up again today, the old argument. My husband, David, and I were shopping at the GameStop, intending to take advantage of their buy-two-get-one-free-on-preo... Read more...