I have been blogging now for several years. It has been an interesting endeavor that has has its high moments of reward as well as its times when it has seemed not only a waste of time, but in complete opposition to the benefit I thought it might once bring. I have experienced the latter [...]
:: February 16, 2010 ::
Return On Investment
:: January 14, 2010 ::
Emergency Funds For Haiti
Haitians are in desperate need for support after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake rocked their island nation on Tuesday. An estimated 3 million people were affected by the quake, which was the worst in the region in 200 years. “More than 100,000 are dead,” the Haitian Consul General to the United Nations, Felix Augustin, estimated on Wednesday. [...]
:: January 6, 2010 ::
The Crisis of the American Muslim Part 1
The following post is the first in a new post-series which will look at current conditions of Muslim thought, process, and social development in the American context, through the reading of a number of texts. The first of which is The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, by Harold Cruse. I believe Dr. Cruse’s work to [...]
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:: December 2, 2009 ::
To Be Or Not To Bop
An excerpt from To Be or Not to Bop, Beboppers… The Cult [pp. 291-3]
Number seven: that “beboppers” expressed a preference for religions other than Christianity may be considered only a half-truth, because most black musicians, including those from the bebop era, received their initial exposure and influence in music through the black church. And [...]
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