Malala Yousafzai’s Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
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Videos | Cory Nieves 10 Year Old Entrepenuer | Mr. Cory’s Cookies!
Thank you SG2 and Rikyrah for the video and the hat tip!
Check out mrcoryscookies.com for the 411 on Mr. Corys Cookies!
VIOREL FLORESCU /STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
This boy is too cute for words. SMART
Meet Cory Nieves, the 10 year old entrepenuer and CEO of Mr. Cory’s Cookies.
Great feature article: Cory Nieves, 10, of Englewood: ‘Regular kid’ — who just happens be a CEO
Cory Nieves started a cookie company so he could save up money to buy a car for his mom. Thanks to Ford and Ellen, Cory and his mom can now be seen driving around in style in their brand new 2015 Ford Escape!
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Sunday Open Thread | Praise & Worship
Good Morning!
Lifting up Michael Brown’s family along with Vonderrick Myers family in prayer. 3ChicsPolitico stand in solidarity with them as they seek justice for their children. Please feel free to drop your words of inspiration, encouragement, music, poems and prayers for them.
Black Life Matters! We won’t stop protesting and crying out until these victims receives equal justice under the law!
Happy Sunday, everyone!
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Happy Birthday Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. And Thank You.
Today is the official celebration of the birthday of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Google Doodle from today, and the explanation behind it.
Roxbury artist creates Google Doodle for MLK Day
By Linda Matchan
GLOBE STAFF JANUARY 19, 2015
One morning last month, Roxbury artist Ekua Holmes got an unexpected e-mail. The subject line: “Hello from the Google Doodle team!”She didn’t know what a Google Doodle was, let alone that it had a whole team behind it. “I’m sure I’d seen them, but I didn’t know it was a whole thing,” she said.
She does now. On Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Holmes’s Google Doodle illustration honoring the civil rights leader is the featured image on Google’s US homepage. The collage depicts King walking arm in arm with fellow activists in Selma, Ala.
Most artists could only dream of such exposure. Traffic to the page is typically in the many millions. “It’s pretty astronomical [and] jaw-dropping,” said Ryan Germick, who leads Google’s Doodle-making team.
Holmes, a painter and collage artist who is not represented by a gallery, was shocked to be tapped for the project. “He said he found me somewhere on the Internet. Somewhere on the Internet? That’s like somewhere in the Himalayas,” said Holmes, 59, whose Roxbury home is about five blocks from where she grew up.
Some little known speeches from Dr. King.
Hat tip: isonprize:
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Sunday Open Thread | Praise & Worship
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Sunday Open Thread | Praise & Worship
Alvin Slaughter is an American gospel musician, worship leader, singer-songwriter.
Slaughter is based out of New York City, where he was a member of the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir until the early 1990s,[1] when he was signed by Integrity Music and began his solo career.[2] He has been nominated for several Dove Awards and performed on the TBN television network. He is also the father of Christian rapper, Sean Slaughter.
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Videos & Photos | President Obama Selma Speech & The First Family In Selma
Update: Full Selma Speech
The sun sets over the Edmund Pettus Bridge where preparations for the 50th anniversary of the civil rights march with a visit Saturday with President Barack Obama and the first family, Friday, March. 6, 2015, in Selma, Ala. This weekend marks the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” a civil rights march in which protesters were beaten, trampled and tear-gassed by…Associated Press
The First Family is in Selma, Alabama today.
See schedule of events.
1:35: The President delivers remarks at the Edmund Pettus Bridge
Watch it live here:
3:20: First Family tours the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute, Selma
5:05: Depart Montgomery
Audio: President Obama Talks ‘Selma 50,’ Ferguson And The Legacy He Wants To Leave His Daughters
Full transcript of President Obama’s Selma speech
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Sunday Open Thread | Praise & Worship
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Sunday Open Thread | Praise & Worship
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“Minute Maid” Father’s Day Video |#doingood
Hat tip Rikyrah. Video got us all up in our FEELS.
Thought ya’ll might need these:
Smart marketing by Minute Maid. Did 21st century Don Draper have a hand in this ad? LOL
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Video & Photos | First Lady Michelle Obama Participates in a Discussion on “Let Girls Learn”
As part of the Let Girls Learn initiative and following her recent visits to Japan and Cambodia, the First Lady will meet with students and educators at the Mulberry School in London to discuss how the UK and the U.S. are working together to expand access to girls education around the world – supporting adolescent girls in completing their education.
Will post photos & full video of discussion when available.
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President Obama full Interview with Marc Maron | 10 Take-a-Ways & What we Learned
Now that we’ve tackled the jackals on President Obama’s use of the word NIGGER, let’s get down to the REST OF THE STORY, as the late Paul Harvey said. REAL TALK
President Barack Obama participates in a podcast with Marc Maron in Los Angeles, Calif., June 19, 2015.
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
You can read the top 10 things we learned here.
Here’s one, I found not surprising and powerful. Congress dropped the ball and really showed how cowardly they are that they would not get on board after the mass murders of our children. That said it all about where their allegiances truly are. And here we are numerous times later, having to burry our American citizens because of a certain segment of our country who CLING TO THEIR GUNS, shoot & kill with little to NO IMPUNITY.
Time: Starts@14:35 mark with gun violence. The media focused on the word Nigger to distract from the point of GUN VIOLENCE & how Congress really did commit a crime by not supporting gun safety law
2. He found Congress’ reaction to Newtown “disgusting”
Obama says the response to the shooting in Newtown was the closest he’s come to being disgusted as President. The fact that 20 six year olds were gunned down, and Congress did nothing, infuriated him. He notes, sadly, that real change to our gun laws won’t happen with this Congress. At least, not until the people’s voices are heard.
So yes; they are mad, and that’s too damned bad. listen to the full interview again, and comment on your take-a-ways. Thank you!
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3 Chics Celebrates SouthernGirl 2′ aka ‘SG2′ Birthday!
C’mon ya’ll we got to give it up for SG2, Devoted mother, friend & Ms TWITTER WARRIOR EXTRAORDINAIRE!
Happy Birthday, SG2!!!
I love your spirit, your loving soul, your fight, and that you hold it down for us not only in your posts, but also in the Twitter-verse.
Some music for you.
And that CowGirl SPIRIT…
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Sunday Open Thread | Praise & Worship
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Pope Francis Arrives in the United States of America
The First Family, VP Biden and Dr. Jill Biden greet Pope Francis.
An American flag, the Vatican City, and city of Washington flags are seen in front of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2015, in preparation for the upcoming visit by Pope Francis. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Pope Francis greets children as he is escorted by President Barack Obama after arriving at Andrews Air Force Base in Md., Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2015. The Pope is spending three days in Washington before heading to New York and Philadelphia. This is the Pope’s first visit to the United States. First lady Michelle Obama, second from right, and Sasha Obama, right, watch. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
More videos and photos to come
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Friday Open Thread | Photos From Pope Francis’ Visit
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Sunday Open Thread
Have a Blessed Sunday, Everyone.
Ms. Lemmie Battle, ya’ll.
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THE WIZ | 3 Chics Politico Live Blogging
Join 3 Chics for live blogging of The Wiz, Live tonight at 8pm EDT/7 CDT on NBC. Ease on down the road with us!
Watch it LIVE HERE. and also check out bios and behind-the-scenes interviews with the cast members.
If you find any great Tweets from Black Twitter, please post them.
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Sunday Open Thread | Holiday Music
O come, O come, Emmanuel is a translation of the Latin text (“Veni, veni, Emmanuel“) by John Mason Neale and Henry Sloane Coffin in the mid-19th century. It is a metrical version of a collation of various Advent Antiphons (the acrostic O Antiphons), which now serves as a popular Advent and Christmas hymn. Its origins are unclear, it is thought that the antiphons are from at least the 8th Century, but “Veni, veni Emmanuel” may well be 12th Century in origin.[3][4] The text is based on the biblical prophecy from Isaiah 7:14 that states that God will give Israel a sign that will be called Immanuel (Lit.: God with us). Matthew 1:23 states fulfillment of this prophecy in the birth of Jesus of Nazareth
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Sunday Open Thread | Holiday Music
“What Child Is This?” is a popular Christmas carol written in 1865. At the age of twenty-nine, English writer William Chatterton Dix was struck with a sudden near-fatal illness and confined to bedrest for several months, during which he went into a deep depression.[1][2] Yet out of his near-death experience, Dix wrote many hymns, including “What Child is This?”, later set to the traditional English tune “Greensleeves“ and retitled as “What Child Is This?”
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