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Birmingham, 1963

I am in the process of reading Condoleezza Rice’s memoir, Extraordinary, Ordinary People. Although Ms. Rice spent four years in America’s highest cabinet post as the nation’s first black (her preferred term, rather than African-American) female Secretary of State, this … Continue reading

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So What Does It Matter?

The newly-crowned Miss USA is an Arabic-American young woman from Michigan. She is the first Muslim to wear that particular beauty pageant crown. I am not a fan of beauty pageants. I have not watched any of these programs on … Continue reading

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