Looking out: Thanks"I know Glenys will fill you in on the news from her [and] from me ... I first heard you were in Reidsville from ... who left a message on my tape machine on Thursday morning." — Diane L. Post
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This is an open letter to my grand-daughters. I feel it is both my duty and a privilege to be able to write and leave letters like this one, for all of you. As the subtitle suggests, the basic message here will be music, but
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Two short essays shared By Brandon Astor Jones and Stephanie M. Wilkinson "I once took for granted eating lunch with a friend, scratching my cat Muffet's ears and listening for his purrs, the company of my wife, reading a book or magazine in the
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The need to forgive"We are not taking about a few months of indiscriminate law breaking. Slavery in America involved centuries of every manner of murder, rape, torture and evil one can imagine — being foisted up an
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'Gethin, please remember me'This essay was tearfully written for Gethin Bryn Roberts, a six-year-old Welsh boy. I hope that one day he will fully understand the meaning in each word. Weekends are especially difficult
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The shame of it all"Who cares if the bullet that killed the police officer was of a different caliber than Jamal's gun? So what if an NABJ luminary is snuffed out without a fair trial? The NABJ has more
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In good conscience@outdent = "My sense is that a majority of Southern Baptists would approve of capital punishment." — C. Ben Mitchell, Southern Baptist minister. @outdent = The Southern
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The killing venue@outdent = "I am a product of your creation. I responded as programmed ... You seem to think that executing criminals is the answer, but an overhauling of our entire society is the real
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Soul writing (8:01am)It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time. — Francis J. Grimke (1850-1937) People often ask, "What is a day on death row like?" Knowing that the
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An open letterLiberation is a dialectical movement ... women's liberation in the revolution is inseparable from the liberation of [men]. — Angela Davis. Your letter arrived yesterday. Thank you. I am glad to
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A brave little boy"If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or country with them." — Richard Allen (1760-1831), former
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Persuasion"Letters have always been serious business ... they can bring a smile, they can bring a tear ... they can do much. Letters are an act of faith." — Robert Epstein. I was pleasantly surprised a while