Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Checking in

Sorry I've been so quiet of late. It's because I've been laid up. I suffered a perforated gut muscle after hearing John Kerry tell Edward Snowden to "man up."

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The FBI spied on Nelson Mandela when he visited the United States a year after his release from prison. We know this thanks to the investigative work of Al Jazeera America and an MIT graduate student named Ryan Shapiro. Just one episode in a long story about Mandela and the U.S. intelligence community.

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Maya Angelou, a native St. Louisan, was an activist, poet, and author. She was also a musician, actress, and monologist. Here she is performing a soliloquy on the short-lived Richard Pryor Show in 1977.

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