My fellow AfroSpear blogger, Kevin Myles is the director of the Wichita NAACP branch. On Saturday, August 9th, they are celebrating the courageous efforts of two dozen young members of the Wichita Branch NAACP Youth Council who in the summer of 1958 held a historic lunch counter sit in at a local drug store.
Sit ins […]

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Pack 373 broke camp last weekend and I now have at least two solid outdoorsmen under my tutelage. They had a great time and learned a lot. The Webelos earned all or part of four or five belt loops and pins. We did BB Shooting, Archery, Citizenship and Smimming as advancements. We did rappelling off […]

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The Kansas City Royals honored Jackie Robinson’s last Negro Leagues team by wearing the old school uniform as their latest throwback uniform on Sunday. Check the link.
If you’re a baseball fan you know that during the season all the teams in Major League Baseball (MLB) wear any number of past versions of their team gear […]

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I did my blood test on Monday morning of last week for my first ever PSA exam. PSA stands for prostate-specific antigen. I turned 40 this year and it’s time to see if the family tendency for prostate problems is trying to minifest itself in me. Our old perceptions and taboos that we historically haven’t […]

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Wayne at the Electronic Village has a good “things that make you go humm” post. Take a gander and drop a comment to him.

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It is the 40th anniversary of the assasination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King. There won’t be a day as historically significant as this one any time soon with the exception potentially of the innauguaration early next year. I don’t even know how to start or structure this post just with everything swirling thru my […]

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More importantly, is your family ready for you to die? If God called you home right now would everyone concerned be ready for the event? There are a number of practical matters to keep in mind as relates to leaving your family on solid footing when you die. Recent deaths in the family just bring […]

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If you see a video on somebody’s blog that you want to copy to your own, here’s an easy way to do it. Just click on the “menu” button at the bottm right corner of the video player. You’ll see a section on the next screen on the right side that reads “ embed”. Just […]

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Today we honor the single greatest American of the 20th century. The one person with the vision and force of will to actually make the country be in fact what it could only claim in principle.
I am of that generation who have been able to take advantage of the gains of the classic civil rights […]

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The current rave is about Denzell’s recently released “American Gangster” but I’m giving an early pitch for his upcoming December release. Check out the Youtube preview with the great old school/new school cast on one screen.
I’m saving up a few dollars to see this one and I think you should too.

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