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Getting in your face with trauma

Independent online (SA) 30 Sep 2023

The South African ... Living Sensitively”, Saks gives us a candid account of how she reached that moment and how it changed her lens on life.Niki Saks is a South African entrepreneur, wellness coach and writer who was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder at the age of 47.

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Why you should read these 51 banned books now

The Star - Shelby 30 Sep 2023

In my 12 years as a student in American public schools, I was assigned only one novel by an African American writer, and that was Taylor’s Newbery Medal-winning story of the Logan family, sharecroppers in rural Mississippi whose love for one another helps them survive the cruelties of the Jim Crow South.

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After Biden’s unknowing LL Cool J flub, president’s ‘authenticity’ questioned

Nashville Pride 29 Sep 2023

As the 2024 election draws closer, it remains to be seen how the White House will respond to the multifaceted concerns and aspirations of the African American community and whether administration officials, speech writers, and others can help avoid an LL Cool J level misstep ...

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Angelina Jolie shares RARE smiling photo as she talks to author Abdulrazak Gurnah... after sharing ...

The Daily Mail 29 Sep 2023

'Just a handful of years later, Gurnah became the first African writer in more than a decade to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature ... 'Just a handful of years later, Gurnah became the first African writer in more than a decade to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature'.

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Emily Blunt wears Zuhair Murad at awards ceremony in New York

Arab News 29 Sep 2023

DUBAI ... She posed for pictures on the gold carpet with her husband John Krasinski ... (AFP) ... The event is named after South African lawyer, activist, writer and former chief justice Albie Sachs, who spent much of his life “defending people charged under racist statutes and repressive security laws.” ... ....

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Business calendar for the week of Oct. 2

Daily Press 29 Sep 2023

OCT. 3. TUESDAY. Marketing Essentials. Reel Time, 8.30-10 a.m., 2072 George Washington Memorial Highway, Gloucester Point ... $0-$25. Register at networkpeninsula.org/marketing-essentials/ ... Free ... $60-$90 ... OCT ... Twitty, an African American and Jewish culinary historian and food writer, who will share the recipe for how he connects his personal roots through food.

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Writers Guild voting on deal with movie, stage, video, TV bosses

People's World 28 Sep 2023

Bargainers for the scribes’ union, the Writers Guild of America-West, for the Hollywood studios, and WGA-East, for the Broadway stages, sent their members back to work at 12.01 a.m ... “We didn’t take any old deal that was on the table,” young African-American writer Kyra Jones told the Associated Press in a video it posted online.

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‘This is the right person for the role’: When Stan Lee said Zendaya would be ‘absolutely wonderful’ in Spider-Man

Pinkvilla 28 Sep 2023

Revisiting the time when Stan Lee defended Zendaya’s casting in Spider-Man when haters argued Mary Jane was a white redhead ... ‘This is the right person for the role’ ... Key Highlight ... The late comic book writer also drew a comparison with the 2003 Daredevil movie where the late African-American actor Michael Clarke Duncan was cast as Kingpin.

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New Initiative Aims to Connect US to Africa

Beijing News 28 Sep 2023

washington - The White House says a new advisory council composed of prominent Americans of African heritage aims at 'enhancing dialogue between U.S ... Group includes clergy, artists, writers ... And, said Cameroon-born analyst and writer Yaya Moussa, the large size of the African diaspora in the U.S ... without encountering the African diaspora,' he said.

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Trevor Noah's Bengaluru Show Cancelled Due To Tech Glitch, Fans React

NDTV 28 Sep 2023

South African comedian and writer Trevor Noah's Bengaluru show has been cancelled due to "technical issues" ... .

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ASEAN's China dilemma

Indian Express 28 Sep 2023

At the ASEAN meet earlier this month, Indonesia succeeded in putting new nuances into often contentious ASEAN positions ... Eight ASEAN countries came together at the highest level ... Is this a nuanced balance of China? Nobody wanted to answer this question ... The writer is former ambassador to Germany, Indonesia & ASEAN, Ethiopia and the African Union .

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Rugby finally has a fantasy World Cup game – here is the cheat sheet you need

The Daily Telegraph 28 Sep 2023

For anyone wishing to upstage the Telegraph writers – and judging by comments on our recent Top 100 series, that might be an attractive proposition – we have set up a league for the World Cup with the access code E3XYNW6O ... Writer views ... Burger Odendaal is a flinty South African ...

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LL Cool J gaffe highlights Biden’s complex relationship with the Black community

The Cincinnati Herald 27 Sep 2023

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South Carolina school deprives its youth by excluding unsettling truths

Des Moines Register 27 Sep 2023

Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates spoke at the slavery reparations hearing and called out Mitch McConnell ... Back then, high school students read and discussed, without objection, “Cry the Beloved Country,” a novel by South African writer Alan Paton, set in the prelude to apartheid in South Africa.

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The silence that betrayed Christianity

Commonwealth Journal 27 Sep 2023

I read a Time Magazine article recently by Dr. Robert Jones ... Jones states ... I reached out to my friend, former pastor, writer, and Christian thinker, Rev. Joel A ... James Baldwin, renowned African American writer who challenged the social order, stated, “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” ... .