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Location: New York
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Earl Hazell is a bass-baritone singer, actor, poet, composer/arranger, native New Yorker, and the Founder, Executive and Artistic Director of JAZZOPERETRY, INC.: the Non-profit Arts Organization that produces Earl Hazell:OUR WOMEN NOW.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
As someone who gets to travel a great deal as part of my career, the first thing people should know about this book is not the opinions regarding the "left-wing" leanings of the author or the "right-wing" leanings of those who are offended by it, or see it as liberal fantasia. A person could easily be led astray as to what significance this book has by looking at it from that perspective without the clarity of context. In fact the three things people should know about this book by Linda McQuaig is the following, in order of importance: 3) The United States Freedom of Information Act of 1975 has made all kinds of otherwise classified documents of the Pentagon and earlier Presidential… Read more
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"2. Benjamin Banneker, a Negro astronomer, made the first clock made in America in 1754... "3. The word 'coffee' comes from Caffa, Ethiopia, where it was first used and where it still grows wild... "5. The Negro arrived in the New World free from tuberculosis and syphillis or other venereal disease...Syphillis originated in Europe in 1494, when there was a great epidemic of it... "14. The Ganges, the sacred river of India, is named after an Ethiopian king of that name who conquered Asia as far as this river... "42. Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States and father of the Declaration of Independence, was the father of a large number of mulatto children. His wife… Read more
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"Snowden approached...all of the writings of the 'classical writers' of Greece and Rome for the actual references made to Africa and Africans...Ethiopians were the yardstick by which blackness was measured...European family crests showing black faces and coarse hair are accompanied frequently by such African derivatives as Mawr, Moore, Moorehead, Morris, Morrison, Mora, Maurice, Mareau, Moretti, Muir, Mohr, meaning a person from Mauritania [the Moors]. Sometimes the label is more indirect with names such as Schwartz, Schwartzkopf, and Schwartzmann, which are German for Black, Blackhead and Blackman... "...the physical evidence for a [Black African] presence in Greece and Rome… Read more
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