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In 1961 District Judge Harold Cox was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. He was known as a raci...
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Prince George’s County needs to invest in itself. As our elected officials, you are charged to lead this effort for the betterment of our c...
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This weekend, I was watching a movie on TV and was struck by how many commercials aired during the course of the film. I did some light res...
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I'm lonely. No matter where I am or who I'm with - both in a given moment or in the larger scheme of life - I can be lonely. And you... -
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I'm in the process of reading Fraternity by Diane Brady. I find the subject matter largely uninteresting - the book relays College of ... -
Today, I finished reading Evita: In My Own Words , an autobiography of Eva Perón, former First Lady of Argentina . And while I loved its i...
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Sometimes the easist way to define something is to list every thing it's not. So here goes. Having just entered my 32nd year of life,... -
Since I've entered my end of the semester crunch time, I've been on the train at all hours of the night trying to get home from scho...
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Archive for 2012
Placing Blame
This will be a brief reaction to responses I've heard to the Sandy Hook Elementary tragedy questioning.
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free think
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Insomnia Ponderings
I ran across this when I was up reading one sleepless night:
Our intuition is.
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free think
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I Heart DC
Having a large metropolitan area as a “hometown” comes with many headaches. For instance,.
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community
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free think
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Question 7 Revealed
Election season has ended and with its conclusion, the
promises that politicians courted voters.
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community
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free think
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Permission to Love the Black Woman
I just got home from vacationing in Miami which is always an enjoyable experience, but this trip solidified.
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free think
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Why I'm Voting No On Question 7
Earlier this week, I was on Twitter (@MidnyteBloom) railing against Question 7 on Prince George's.
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community
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free think
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Is Better Always Better??
Lately, I've been contemplating the point at which wanting better becomes detrimental. While.
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free think
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Nature vs. Nurture? I Choose Nature.
Many people who know me know I've been having some difficulty with my supervisor of the past nine.
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free think
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Taking the Charge
I’m officially relaxing my stance on something I firmly believed. I was recently having a conversation.
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free think
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Hoping It's Truly Darkest Right Before Dawn
The past couple of weeks I've been bouncing between feeling like everything's on the brink of coming.
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free think
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Quartz Crystal
So, after 33 attempts, I was finally able to capture the effect I was going for. The backstory.
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Crafts
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Halima's Faves
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New Ventures: Photography
Back in May, I wrote a Memorial Day post in which I mentioned my desire to post photos I took.
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Crafts
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Halima's Faves
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Pro-Black: A Positive or Another Adopted Label??
I find it unsettling that I can't locate information on the origin of the term, pro-black. A.
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free think
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Paying for the Sins of Their Father
I've been fortunate to have come across and/or been recommended amazing novels over the past.
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Book Reviews
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Connections and Understanding: Review of 'A Thousand Splendid Suns'
As I closed the back cover to A Thousand Splendid Suns, I had to say "That was a good book" even.
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Book Reviews
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Taking the Time
Yesterday, I stayed home from work to think and to write. I'm not entirely sure what I'm writing.
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free think
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Living in the Gray
On the subway this morning, I was sitting behind a woman who was wearing clip-on earrings and.
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free think
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The Places We Go
Earlier this week, I became consciously aware that if I do my best to avoid bad situations, I don't.
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free think
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Mob Mentality
I’m in the midst of a love-hate relationship with Ayn Rand’s The Virtue of Selfishness. This.
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Book Reviews
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Sacrifices
Recently, I was thinking about the nature of change. Missing some people and things from my past and.
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free think
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Better Late Than Never
So, last week's time of reflection threw off my posting flow a little bit, but it's okay, sometimes.
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Book Reviews
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Boundaries...the Good Kind
I've neglected to update my blog this week because I've been even more lost in thought than usual. .
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free think
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Our Culture of Change
This weekend, I was watching a movie on TV and was struck by how many commercials aired during the.
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free think
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Ownership
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking recently about what it means to take responsibility for my thoughts.
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free think
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The Illusion of Progression
I'm in the process of reading Fraternity by Diane Brady. I find the subject matter largely uninteresting.
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Book Reviews
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Another Great White Hope??
When I began reading Three Cups of Tea, I made a
prediction that I’d either love the book because.
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Book Reviews
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Bittersweet Holiday
This Memorial Day weekend, my family honored my cousin by having the road my Grandmother, Aunt and.
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Crafts
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Halima's Faves
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Follow-up: Open Letter to Elected PG County Officials
On Monday, Newsweek released a list of the top 1000 public schools in the nation.
Twenty-three Maryland.
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community
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free think
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Open Letter to Elected PG County Officials
Prince George’s County needs to invest in itself. As our elected officials, you are charged to lead.
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community
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free think
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Playing the Race Card
As humans, part of our social nature is to search for similarities in each other; something in another.
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community
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free think
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Too Good to Wait
In the past, I've usually held off on reviewing a book until I've completed it. This is because, in.
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Book Reviews
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Wanted: The “Conscious’ Community’s Awakening
Too many in the so-called conscious community have lost sight of what consciousness means. In the.
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community
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free think
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Relearning Behavior
“…life had begun to go so fast that accepting would take the place of knowing and believing”
I ran.
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free think
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Is It Only Entertainment??
I was recently having a discussion with a co-worker about how entertainment constantly bombards us.
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free think
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Solitude
Originally posted on Tumblr September 24, 2011:
To some it may appear as though I’m sitting around.
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free think
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The Collective "We"
After recently spending time studying Rastafari, one of the many things that struck a chord with me.
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free think
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Don't Pee On My Head and Call It Rain
Originally published on Tumblr on October24, 2011.
I try to keep my energy positive, but occasionally.
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free think
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Things That Make My Soul Cry: Schoolyard Games
Originally published on Tumblr November 4, 2011:
I fell asleep this morning and found myself caught.
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free think
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Soapbox Days: Same Shyt Different Toilet
This article gave me a headache, but please read it if you get the chance:
Two years after BP oil.
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free think
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Things that Make My Soul Sad: Lack of Self Love
During my hiatus from Blogger, I was on Tumblr, but that forum didn’t work well for my purposes. Because.
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free think
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