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Lake Worth street painting festival: carnival vs official holiday

17th annual street painting in Lake Worth is a vivid example of popular culture with the most attractive feature it always permeates – lively...

Love is a dilemma!

Symptoms of Love - 1938by Robert Graves, 1895-1985Love is a universal migraine,A bright stain on the visionBlotting out reason. ...

LA Poetry Examiner Social Consciousness Poetry Pick:Naked Scanner Body Search

This poem is in response to a true story: - Pilot walks off job after refusing to go through full body X-ray scanner at airport By Daily Mail...

African-American History month part four Lucy Terry Prince

Lucy Terry (1730?-1821) is the author of the oldest known work of literature by an African American.Lucy Terry was born in Africa, and taken when...

African-American History month part three, Jupiter Hammon

Another not so well known name in history is African-American, Jupitor Hammon. Jupiter Hammon had been a slave his entire life for the Lloyd family...

African-American History month part two, Phillis Wheatley

Phillis Wheatley (1753 - 1784), Phillis Wheatley Tribute at the Boston Women’s Memorial Research tells us that Phillis Wheatley was brought...

African-American History month a look at African-American authors

February is African-American History Month and has been recognized as such since 1926. Established by Dr. Carter G. Woodson whose parents had been...

J.D. Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye, will not be forgotten

Ninety-one-year-old Author J.D. Salinger, died of natural causes at his home on Wednesday. Salinger was best known for his novel The Catcher in the...