Eclectique News and the 200th post

Thursday, 11 June 2009, 11:14 | Category : African American, Books, Culture, Dance, DC, Healthcare, Hispanic, Movies, People, Poetry, Politics, The Arts, Youth
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Note: This is my 200th post. Just thought I’d share that. HEALTH CARE REFORM ON THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION’S WATCH See where the Obama administration is going with health care reform; submit your stories; read the reports. The healthreform.gov site is user friendly. President Obama will appear in Green Bay, Wisconsin today to discuss health care [...]

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Will there be cake in the Langston Room Sunday?

Friday, 30 January 2009, 22:39 | Category : African American, DC, History, Music, People, Poetry, The Arts, Washington
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Sunday February 1 will be Langston Hughes’s birthday. He would’ve been 107 years old. My how time flies. In The Big Sea, Langston articulated the real deal about Washington’s black bourgeoisie of the 1920s. The chapter is titled “Washington Society.” These upper class colored people consisted largely of government workers, professors and teachers, doctors, lawyers, [...]

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