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Black Christmas

The New Pharaohs?

William H. Lamar IV | Posted 05.09.2013 | Religion
Read More: African-American, Jews, Religion, Church, Sermons, Blacks, Slavery, Black Churches, Whiteness, Alliance-of-Black-Jews, Black Christmas, American Jews, American Judy, Exodus, Book of Exodus, African-American Issues, Scripture Commentary, Scripture Study, Martin Luther King Jr., Christianity, Judaism, Religion News
William H. Lamar IV

Here we are, Black American church folk and Shabbat observing Jews. We are the children of those who suffered in the sweltering house of bondage. And many of us have become Pharaohs.

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YouTube Horror Directors Share Top Creepy Holiday Movies (VIDEO)

Shira Lazar | Posted 02.11.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Black Christmas, Creepy, Gremlins, Michael Gallagher, Holiday, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Silent Night, Christmas, Deadly Night, Top, Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer, Home Alone, Comedy, Tony V, Horror, Directors, Totally Sketch, Youtube, What's Trending, Video, Entertainment News
Shira Lazar

YouTube's favorite horror directors Michael Gallagher (Totally Sketch, "Smiley") and Tony V (BlackBoxTV) dish on the scariest horror movies of all ...

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Poly Styrene Returns With New Album, Generation Indigo

Holly Cara Price | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Mixed Race, Misogyny, Poly Styrene, Oh Bondage Up Yours, Youth, Thrash Punk, Kathleen Hanna, Punk Rock, Michael Rendall, Sid Vicious, Brother Culture, Viv Albertine, Bipolar, Marian Elliott-Said, Celeste Bell Dos-Santos, Sex Pistols, Black Christmas, Feminism, Generation Indigo, Breast Cancer, 1970?S, Martin Glover, Kim Gordon, Virtual Boyfriend, John Lydon, Future Noise Music, X Ray Spex, Ghoulish, Aor, Entertainment News
Holly Cara Price

"Some people think little girls should be seen and not heard. But I think....OH BONDAGE UP YOURS!" ~ X-Ray Spex, 1977 Photo Credit: Fabrizio Rainone...

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The Black Magi And Other Black Figures In European Christmas Art

theroot.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Read More: Christmas, Black Saints, Wise Men, Religous Art, Black Magi, Black Christmas, Skip Gates, The Root, David Bindam, Henry Louis Gates, Religion News

Over the centuries, European artists depicted a variety of religious figures as black, most notably one of the Three Kings, or Magi, bearing gifts for...

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The Agenda: DC Comics, Holiday Horror, And Wendell Potter

Huffington Post | Anna Almendrala | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: DC Comics, David Haskell, Wendell Potter Deadly Spin, Black Christmas, Slidepollajax, Joseph Mahon, Wendell Potter, Silent Night Bloody Night, Henry Jacobs, LA Events, Los Angeles News

Indulge in childhood pleasures this evening with a panel on DC Comics (Superman, Wonder Woman, and The Flash) or a holiday horror double bill at the N...

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The Best Under-Exposed Horror Movies by Farr

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: A Tale of Two Sisters, Seance on a Wet Afternoon, The Body Snatcher, I Walked With a Zombie, The Devil's Backbone, Fiend Without a Face, Witchfinder General, Horror Movies, Halloween Movies, Black Christmas, Images, Movies, Entertainment News
John Farr

As October moves inexorably to its close, my thoughts turn to Halloween and all things scary, not counting Sarah Palin and Wall Street.

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