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M.L. King Day 2023

Atlanta, Ga.Slideshow: :  …

Spike Lee 

On Thursday, (January 12, 2023)  the Academy Award-winning director, who graduated from Morehouse in 1979, and his agency, Gersh, announced the Spike Fellows Program that will support students from Morehouse, Spelman College, and Clark Atlanta University, as noted by The Hollywood…

This is a program that was recorded in 1992, some 31 years ago.  We have to ask ourselves how much have things

changed or how much are they the same as they were in 1619. How do we move forward if we never want to change the situation that help to keep many people marginalized.  Where do we go from here?  

As reported in The Daily Beast last week (and later in The New York Times), at Hamline University—a small, private

university in Saint Paul, Minnesota—a Muslim student objected…

Congratulations to the Honorable Judge Fatima El-Amin! The DeKalb County Superior Court judges have appointed Judge

Fatima A. El-Amin as the next chief judge of the DeKalb County Juvenile Court!



Judge El-Amin attended W.D. Mohammed High School in DeKalb County and completed her collegiate studies at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Judge El-Amin received her J.D. degree from Emory University…

News

WASHINGTON - The State Department said Thursday it has adopted Turkey’s preferred spelling for the name of the country, Turkiye, acceding to a request from the NATO ally after several months of hesitation.

The department has instructed that new official documents refer to Turkiye instead of Turkey, although the pronunciation will not change, officials said. But neither the State Department website nor the Foreign Affairs Manual, which guides US…

ظلم (لسان العرب)

Oppression is putting someone or something in other than where he/she belongs.  Oppression is not giving a person all that he/she is due. 

الظلم : وضع الشيء في غير موضعه .

انتقاص الحق.

They did not wrong him means they did not turn from him.

The source of oppression is injustice.

Whoever does more or less than required, is doing evil and…

★Pelé: “I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.

Pele

Pelé, one of soccer’s greatest players and a transformative figure in 20th-century sports who achieved a level of global celebrity few athletes have known, died on Thursday in São Paulo. He was 82.

His death was confirmed by his manager, Joe Fraga. The Hospital…

Nelson Mandela A Legacy In Music...

Joan Armatrading considers herself privileged to have met Nelson Mandela and to have written and performed a song for him - The Messenger. In this programme she traces Mandela's life through his all-important love of music, from his early days as a keen dancer to his maturity on the world stage as the first fully democratically elected President of South Africa - an event celebrated in music all over the world. In between,…

When we contrast the behavior of Arabs before and after Islam, we need to mention the positives as well as the negatives.

Some Arabs would resent a total focus on the negatives without mentioning the positives. One of the most positive features they were known for was their hospitality.

Some of their positives are mentioned below.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/CULTURE-MIDDLE EAST: Arab Hospitality Runs Deep

The genuine warmth…

A bronze statue of Henrietta Lacks – whose cells were taken from her body without her permission before they

Lacks’ cells were taken from her body without her permission and used for numerous medical advances

facilitated numerous medical advances – is taking the place of a monument to the Confederate general Robert E Lee that was removed from…