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  • AF-AM NEWS bits June 2023

    This bit was taken from the October 1, 2021 issue of POV EDITORS CAN BE FUNNY Writing is a flawed art. And if you take your mistakes personally, you’ll become creatively paralyzed which is why I so much appreciated a piece in a recent Barbara Bernard article in The Republican that my wife and editor…


  • AF-AM NEWS bits

    WHITENESS AS A COLLECTION OF HABITS The comments by Savala Nolan in a Time article (February 14/February 21, 2022) on White folks titled “Antiracists Can’t Work Alone,” were revealing. She wrote: “I think of whiteness primarily as a collection of habits and behaviors premised on the assumption that dealing with race is optional, and can…


  • AFAM NEWS bits- April 2023

    ALL IT TAKES IS VISION AND THE WILLINGNESS TO CHANGE Although “My Point of View” article on page 24 sums up my thoughts and feelings about the Springfield Symphony Orchestra, it is important that readers know I am not alone as the author of a recent Time article confirmed.


  • AFAM-NEWS bits March-2023

    MONEY CAN’T BUY ME LOVE Somebody should tell Springfield’s Mayor Domenic Sarno the meaning of that old 1964 song, attributed to the Beatles’ Paul McCartney, “Money Can’t Buy Me Love.”


  • AF-AM NEWS bits – February 2023

    If you really believe that Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno is planning to lower your taxes next year by putting your $45 million that he loosely labeled a “surplus” into a treasury account as reported in a January 13, 2023 article in The Republican, then I know of a bridge in Brooklyn that I would be…


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