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Gaslighting Another Black Community For Fun & Profit

Scratch beneath any story in Coconut Grove and you’ll discover the issue of race lurking. We’ll get to that eventually, but this true fable — with a twist on the race issue — starts with the approval of a Wawa gas station in the City of Coral Gables. So what? Cities approve gas stations all the time. However, this approval didn’t have any public consultation with the community, nor public hearings, both of which would normally have taken place. And, that’s ...

Watergate ► The End of the End

Dateline August 8, 1974 – President Richard Milhous Nixon tenders his resignation, effective noon the following day, and becomes the first — and so far only — President of the ...

Stan Freberg ► Nostalgia Ain’t What It Used To Be

Dateline August 7, 1926 – Born Stanley Victor Freberg in a manger in a hospital in Pasadena, California, the newborn “Stan” (as his Baptist minister father improbably nicknamed him) waited ...

Big Up, Jamaica!!! Happy 50th!!!

Let’s face facts: Jamaica is probably the closest Christopher Columbus ever came to what was later called the United States of ‘Merka, the country he is alleged to have ‘discovered.’ ...

A Musical Appreciation ► Louis Armstrong

Dateline August 4, 1901 – A Black boy is born into a world of extreme poverty and Jim Crow laws in New Orleans, Louisiana. By the time Louis Armstrong died ...

Watergate ► The Beginning of the End

Then It hardly seems like 40 years. However, four decades ago today the Washington Post published the first article by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on what was to become known ...

Unpacking The Aunty Em Ericann Blog ► Part New

A moment in time While I use this occasional series to peel back the layers and reveal some of the behind-the-scenes aspects of my blog, the more astute among my readers ...

The Day I Shook Hands With Glenn Beck ► Nostalgia Ain’t What It Used To Be

Glenn Beck. Picture by author. Eyes by Crazy. In November 2009, not quite three years ago, I was still in the middle of my Performance Art project that began in ’07. ...

I’ll Take Game Shows Hosts For 200

Who began his career on a televised sock hop in Canada in 1963? Need another clue? It was called Music Hop. Another clue? Are you brain dead? Okay. he hosted the following exciting ...

Happy Birthday Nelson Mandela ► Dance Music To Change The World

Set your non-violent revolution to dance rhythmsand you can change the world. Happy Birthday Nelson Mandela!!! As always, crank it up!!!

Perry Mason and Me ► The Case of the Growing Child

Erle Stanley Gardiner (L) with Luther S. Cressman, “father of Oregon archaeology” in 1966 Perry Mason transformed me from a child into a young adult. Let me explain. A Perry Mason novel ...

Desmond Dekker ► A Musical Appreciation

Desmond Dekker, who passed away just 6 years ago, had the prettiest voice in all of Reggae music. On what would have been his 71st birthday, let’s take a moment ...

Musical Appreciation ► Woody Guthrie’s Centennial

If ‘Merka ever had a national troubadour, it would have been Woody Guthrie. Among his legacy of hundreds — some say thousands — of songs include “This Land Is Your ...

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