Tag: North Carolina
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Charles Brantley Aycock: A Monumental Lie
To make a point, I’ve tweaked one line from the glowing write-up Charles Brantley Aycock received at The Architect Of The Capitol site, which proudly displays his memorial bronze, to read: Charles Brantley Aycock was born on November 1, 1859, on a farm near Fremont in Wayne County, North Carolina. Though his father died when […]
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The Greensboro Massacre On Steroids
Exactly eighty-one years before the mess of 11/3/1979, a coalition of white leaders and white supremacists took to the streets in Wilmington, North Carolina, killing over a hundred African-Americans in the process of performing a coup d’etat. The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 was tragic on three distinct levels: A group of white political and […]
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GZA (The Genius) & DJ Muggs In Powder Blue
That’s right, I said powder blue. Saturday night, I caught the Grandmaster show at Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, NC. I hadn’t experienced DJ Muggs live before, so I didn’t know what to expect from him other than some bumping bass and high pitched wails. I mean, basically, could he move the crowd in unexpected ways? […]
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2005: A Year For Change
The funny thing about running into the posting wall, is that it almost always comes out of the blue, often at the most random of times. Well, unlike past years, in 2005 I hit the wall at the most appropriate time of the year. So in order to get back up on the blogging horse, […]
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Little Bro, Big B
When I walked into the Jersey City office of Big Brothers/Big Sisters in the Spring of ’04, I had no idea what to expect. I had tossed around the idea of becoming a Big Brother ever since my college roommate did it a few years after we left the ‘cuse, but I kept rationalizing my […]
You Are Standing In An Open Field 