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One should never forfeit any parts of their identity to qualify for full transaction of citizenship.

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Re: Projects

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African Americans were adding lightening to the thunder of a voice that was objecting to abjection.

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Africans in America presented clear physical and cultural opposition to the proprietors of the slave trade, Europeans.

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Re: God’s children

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Re: New lovers

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August 10, 2015 Jewel Brooks

The sun on summer is setting. I have taken a beautiful sabbatical but the dead hath risen. New works on Death and the Black male imagination, Hip Hop, and the premiere of a photography blog. Stay put! Continue reading

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African-Americans didn’t want to finagle forks and knives or sharecrop their lives away with a cutlass in hand, they wanted books.

May 11, 2015 Jewel Brooks

Continue reading African-Americans didn’t want to finagle forks and knives or sharecrop their lives away with a cutlass in hand, they wanted books.

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Re: Emancipation

May 11, 2015 Jewel Brooks

Before Lincoln’s signature had even dried on the Emancipation Proclamation, African-Americans were starting schools public and private. Education, no matter how remedial meant freedom for African-Americans because it was one step closer to be put on level ground with their … Continue reading Re: Emancipation

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As the thief unburdens, Christ simply reminds him “thou shalt not steal.”

May 11, 2015 Jewel Brooks

Continue reading As the thief unburdens, Christ simply reminds him “thou shalt not steal.”

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Christ doesn’t conceal His identity, man fails to recognize Him.

May 11, 2015 Jewel Brooks

Continue reading Christ doesn’t conceal His identity, man fails to recognize Him.

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Re: Grounds for rebellion

May 11, 2015May 11, 2015 Jewel Brooks

Cities have a difference of industry than the rural antebellum. A city is where raw material and natural resources were sent to be refined and sold to mass market. Instead of cutlasses, sacks of cotton, and shackles, African slaves had … Continue reading Re: Grounds for rebellion

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A true student doesn’t ask permission to ask questions.

May 11, 2015May 11, 2015 Jewel Brooks

Continue reading A true student doesn’t ask permission to ask questions.

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To live and die in colonialist America as an African is testimony of the elasticity of a people.

May 11, 2015 Jewel Brooks

Continue reading To live and die in colonialist America as an African is testimony of the elasticity of a people.

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Re: More loving

May 11, 2015May 11, 2015 Jewel Brooks

In the pew hate and jealousy can rise to the surface like grease in a pot full of dish water. Once a poisonous atmosphere takes hold and the church ceases to do what it was erected for, to spread a message … Continue reading Re: More loving

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In the slums and ghettoes the church and the mosque have proven to give laymen powers miraculous 

May 11, 2015 Jewel Brooks

Continue reading In the slums and ghettoes the church and the mosque have proven to give laymen powers miraculous 

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