Ancestry DNA testing: Should the buyer beware?
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Have questions about medical marijuana?
Once upon a time, marijuana was all about getting high just for the hell of it. Now, medical marijuana gives cannabis a whole new...
We love poetry by Dr. Patricia Williams Diaw
Lamentations
Saga of pain and woe
Song of despair
Solemn moods
Melancholy days go by
Wounds that will not heal
Bondage real
Longing and waiting
To be set free
You
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Just have the party!
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We love books… Peggy Cooper Cafritz’s Fired Up! Ready to Go!
Fired Up! Ready to Go! Finding Beauty, Demanding Equity: An African American Life in Art, The Collections of Peggy Cooper Cafritz, (RizzoliElecta)
If you want to...
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The real man behind Stepin Fetchit
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We love… peach cobbler!
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Legendary fashion guru Audrey Smaltz talks shop
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The well-dressed man sports a stylish watch
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