Abagond

1 min read 2023-02-05 19:00:08

Jimmy Eat World: The Middle

Remarks: In 2002 in Canada this was the most played song on the radio. It does have a video that appeared on MTV, but from what I can tell it does

2 min read 2023-02-04 19:00:17

Image from xoomer.virgilio.it. Note: This is so far back in time that dates can be off by up to 100 years or so. I follow the dates in “The

1 min read 2023-02-02 19:00:12

The map of Black people February is Black History Month in the US and on this blog. Below are some posts I am thinking of doing or have done this

2 min read 2023-01-31 20:00:59

Tyre Nichols (1993-2023) was an unarmed Black man killed by police in the US on January 7th 2023. This time the Routine Traffic Stop was beyond the

1 min read 2023-01-29 19:00:22

Remarks: This is my favourite Toni Braxton song. It came out in 1996, going to #2 on the US R&B chart and the top ten on pop charts throughout

2 min read 2023-01-28 19:00:27

GBHTR_044 Note: This is so far back in time that dates can be off by up to 100 years or so. I follow the dates in “The Princeton Dictionary of

3 min read 2023-01-27 19:00:12

If all of human history took place in one year, from the invention of Egyptian hieroglyphics in -3200 to just now in 2023, that would come to 435

2 min read 2023-01-25 19:00:07

Every version of the Bible has pros and cons, unfortunately. The King James or Authorized Version (KJV/AV) is no different: Pro: The best English

2 min read 2023-01-24 19:00:31

Note: This is my summary of chapter 2 of “The 1619 Project” (2021) – the book, not the television show. As in the book, “America” means US

1 min read 2023-01-22 19:00:05

Remarks: This is my favourite Natalie Cole song. It went to #1 on the US R&B chart in 1978. It did not chart outside of North America. Hard to

2 min read 2023-01-21 19:00:56

Pharaoh Den smiting Asiatics in the First Dynasty, -2900s. (British Museum) Note: This is so far back in time that dates can be off by up to 100

3 min read 2023-01-20 19:00:35

Not a picture of a dismembered fetus. Abortion is the killing of an unborn child, legal from coast to coast in the US from 1973 to

2 min read 2023-01-19 19:00:41

Note: This is my summary of chapter 1 of “The 1619 Project” (2021) – the book, not the television show. As in the book, “America” means US

2 min read 2023-01-18 19:00:59

From the post of the same name on Womanist Musings, July 13th 2008, before it compleyely disappears from the Internet: Abagond: ..Homosexuality is a

2 min read 2023-01-16 19:00:56

I was on an 1851 media diet in late 2021 and early 2022. I was reading “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, (1852), a chapter a week to match its