“There is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and White America and Latino America and Asian America — there’s the United States of America.” — Barack Obama, 2004 Democratic National Convention
Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry now infamous since stacking the deck to make up partisan voting districts back in 1812
Right or wrong, Hattie McDaniel won an Academy Award in 1939 for her role in ‘Gone WIth The Wind’; in 2026, ‘Sinners’ earned fewer than ‘One Battle After Another’
Tupac Shakur was right, and the book ‘Mourner’s Bench’ Sanderia Faye emphasizes the importance of informed decisions while voting to this day; so vote
“I stumbled on this photograph,
it kind of made me laugh
It took me way back,
back down memory lane”
— Memory Lane, Minnie Ripperton
Our bus tour guide ignored the statue of him, but Octavius Catto deserves spot among greats of Philadelphia in American history like William Penn or Benjamin Franklin
Despite your views on preventive medicine, there’s a new and deadly syndrome that is sweeping the country. It is a psychological condition that creates a dependence on “likes, comments, and shares.”
Twenty years on from Hurricane Katrina, the betrayal of our most vulnerable continues today
“So, bye-bye, Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry
And them good ol’ boys were drinkin’ whiskey and rye
Singin’, “This’ll be the day that I die
This’ll be the day that I die”
— American Pie (Don McLean)
‘Once you learn to read, you will be forever free’ — Fredrick Douglass
Yes, reading broadens our horizons and embarks us on a life’s journey of endless possibilities
So, has the world changed, and what was lost now forgotten? Could those things have stayed the same and only forgotten? Maybe those things weren’t forgotten, only reimagined and introduced to a new generation.
