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This is the greek god Hermes. Have you thought about how you have been relying on him to read your Bible?

I’ve struggled with this last post on hyphenization because of how deeply it is touching my soul. Forgive me for playing it safe. The beauty of a jazz musician, "lies in their ability not simply to hit a musical note exactly, but to move around the ‘margins’ of a note, thereby increasing the vibrato and…

Slaves were "de-Africanized" almost immediately. But upon arriving in the new land, "Africans in America needed not think even for a moment that they were American’s. The beatings, lynchings, and the psychological demoralization of having to call someone ‘master’ experientially told them that they were not American’s. They were not allowed to be Africans, and…

The term "hyphenated American" was popularized in the 1910s by President Theodore Roosevelt, responding to the increasing fractionalization within the nation along ethnic lines. In an October 12, 1915 speech to the Knights of Columbus, Roosevelt said, "There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do…
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