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AF-AM News bits – February 2018
TO MY MORE TIMID ASSOCIATES “If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.” – Frederick…
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TO DIG A DITCH
—-By Frederick A. Hurst—- “IT IS NOBLE TO WORK AND ALL WORK IS NOBLE” (This is the 5th reprinting of this article since it first appeared as a Father’s Day Tribute to my grandfather in our June 1, 2004 issue. Although my eldest son believes everyone has read it at least one time by now,…
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A SHOUT OUT TO LEONTYNE PRICE
—By Frederick A. Hurst— I wanted to give a special shout out to Leontyne Price because I recall hearing her name so many times in my youth. I always thought she was “great” but I really never knew for what. I was barely aware of who Marian Anderson, who inspired Price, was. At least Anderson…
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FORGET TRUMP!
Worry About The Compromisers —By Frederick A. Hurst— Yes, I voted. And I voted for Hillary Clinton although I didn’t want to vote for her. And, I didn’t particularly want her to win. It was the alternative that dragged my reluctant hand to pencil in a completed line for her on the ballot. But as…
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VISIONARY BLACK LEADERSHIP
—By Frederick A. Hurst (Reprinted from 2/1/2015)— Well, New Year’s has come and gone without me having written a word about the coming year which is unusual but deliberate because I’ve been contemplating a shift in emphasis that I really needed to think hard about. As I reflected on my past articles, I distinguished trends.…