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AARP (American Association of Retired People) have a magazine.

The information in the magazine is to inform seniors on topics important to them in their lives. They discuss programs and products that are designed for seniors. Fitness programs, American music, and they feature a celebrate or known personage who is belongs to AARP. This old copy that I am looking at from 2017, has a photo of Jessica Lange and a story about her life. Lange was born a couple of…

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Iowa Banned Books Week October 1st - October 10th

The Iowa House of Representatives has declared October 1st through October 10th, “Banned Books Week.” The article I read did not say why the 1st through the 10th. The week is being observed by readings of Banned Books. You can see the list of 50 of the banned books on https://www.rd.com.

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A Dirge

This dirge is written for the loss of the movie reviews that are no longer a part of my files. My computer craved the capacity to download papers and files for my seminars at The Union Institute and University. It, the computer, got wild because it ran out of places to put the words, the pictures, and other characters. The reviews dated back to 2013 so I haven’t, as of yet, deleted any recent…

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Complaints

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Ideas on Culture (hip hop II- black culture)

Ideas on Culture (hip hop II- black culture)

by Lana Jean Mitchell Looking at the subject of hip hop culture is relevant, for me at this time, as I see and hear the word spoken by practitioners of hip hop; musicians, MCs (Masters of Ceremony) writers, singers, actors, performers, dancers, pundits, and combinations of the above groups. Successful African American director, producer screen, and play writer Tyler Perry, for example, used the…

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A Historical Work on Enslavement

A Historical Work on Enslavement

A Documentary History of Slavery in Berbice 1796-1834 is a 2002 copyright work by Alvin O. Thompson. A British slave colony from 1796-1834 Berbice, present day Guyana, is in northeastern South America. During 1796-1834 it was a colony, first of the Dutch and lastly the British. Professor Alvin O. Thompson is a prolific writer of historical works about slavery, which was centered in the…

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365 days of Black History.

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Ideas of Culture - Hip Hop

Ideas of Culture – Hip Hop

By Lana Jean Mitchell Still looking at the definitions of culture . I started my look last post with a quote by “Jawaharlal Nehru: ‘Culture is the Widening of the Mind and Spirit.” Nehru was the first Prime Minister of Independent India. I’ve decided to look at Hip Hop’s definition(s) of culture. Watching BET (Black Entertainment Television) a promo for Tyler Perry’s programs reads “Stream…

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Culture Is the Widening of the Mind and the Spirit - A quote by Jawahula Nehru

Culture Is the Widening of the Mind and the Spirit – A quote by Jawahula Nehru

The Jawahula Nehru quote above I found, while involved in an unrelated project. I’d like to share my musings about it and idea(s) on culture in the short essay below. Culture Is the Widening of the Mind and the Spirit states Jawahula Nehru. I read his quote as defining the affects of culture: How culture develops the human mind and grows the human spirit. Webster’s New World College Dictionary,…

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Timbuktu Film Review

By Lana Jean Mitchell Timbuktu (pronounced tawn book TOO), Mali, Africa has a reputation for being the site of the world’s first university; for being a place of scholars and scholarship; and for being a place of mysteries. In 2015 it also became a venue for the production of a modern day film, Timbuktu, directed by Abderrahmane Sissako. Produced by Orange Studio and Cohen Media Group, the 96…

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BookMad Magazine. Read the 2021 Q2 issue from Author Solutions.

BookMad Magazine. Read the 2021 Q2 issue from Author Solutions.

Source: BookMad Magazine. Read the 2021 Q2 issue from Author Solutions.

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Thank You!!

This post celebrates an anniversary of sorts. I just renewed Mitchellworksweb.com for another year.

The thank you is to you, the three individuals who viewed my site from October 5th to November 1st, 2020. I trust you are still visiting. One of you was a visitor to my About page during that period. Your favorite day to visit, says my statistics is Thursdays, and you get up for your visit at…

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Grand View University "Upcoming Event" Update

The program “Stories to Tell My Daughters” scheduled for Grand View University, Des Moines, IA, this past Sunday, March 15, 2020, was canceled as I speculated. The coronavirus got it too. A rescheduling is possible. I’ll let you know if and when I know. Maybe you are also interested?

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Upcoming Event - Maybe

Upcoming Event – Maybe

Sunday, March 15th, 2020, Grandview University, here in Des Moines, Iowa is hosting the following event, “Stories to Tell My Daughter.” The event will be held in the Viking Theatre. Maybe! The public program might get cancelled because of the coronavirous, I’m thinking, not Grand View. Grand View is located at 1200 Grand View Avenue. I’ll be there at 4:00p.m. start time. If it happens.