One of my new gigs this year is that I’m a book reviewer for InterVarsity Press. Thanks to this blog, someone from the publishing company contacted me and wondered if I would be interested in reading and writing reviews of their publications. Of course, I jumped at the opportunity. I LOVE books! I understand...
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Dear Rev. Brown, As a resident of the Govans Community, I would like to invite your participation and the members of Faith In Action to participate in a Spring 2009 event (Inter-Faith Service) concerning the Baltimore United For Peace and Justice Coalition of which I am a Executive Member/Organizer. For the past two years...
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With support from Africa Action, I sent Sen. Ben Cardin (MD) a note about Senate Bill 2166, a bill concerned with canceling Africa’s odious and crippling debt. Here’s his response: Dear Mr. Brown: Thank you for contacting me regarding your support for providing debt relief to poor, developing nations that have borrowed from the...
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I liked the dialogue that occured from last Friday’s open forum so let’s try it again. Click “comments” above and let me know what’s on your mind! Sports, politics, religion, community, international news, etc?
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I’ve never done this before, but hey – it’s Friday. Let’s try something new. What do you want to talk about? What’s important to you? What’s the issue that everyone is missing? Politics? Religion? World Affairs? Local Happenings? CLICK “COMMENTS” AND LET ‘ER RIP!Â
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I sent a letter to the editor of The Afro about rape allegations against Detective William Welch who is accused and has been indicted for raping a 16 year old girl inside the Southeastern Police District Station House. Click here to read it.
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Dear Congressman Elijah Cummings, I appreciate your response to my email about the unrest in the Middle East and the military offensive Israel is waging against Lebanon, however, as I shared with a member of your staff earlier today, I strongly disagree with you. You reference in your email UN Security Council Resolution 1559,...
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I sent the following letter to my U.S. Representatives (Sarbanes, Mikulski, and Cummings) Dear Congressman Cummings, First let me thank you for your valued leadership. As my representative, I follow your political activities closely and most times your activity matches my desire on various issues. I write you today because, like many, I am...
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June 8, 2006 Mr. Victor Starr Program Director WERQ 92Q Jams 1705 Whitehead Road Baltimore, MD 21207 Dear Mr. Starr, I appreciate your timely and thoughtful response to my May 2 letter. In addition, I am glad that you agree with me that the “Big Phat Wire†segment was inappropriate. As it pertains to the...
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May 2, 2006 Mr. Victor Starr Program Director WERQ 92Q Jams 1705 Whitehead Road Baltimore, MD 21207 Dear Mr. Starr, While riding to work this morning, I was flipping through the channels and landed on 92.3FM. At the time, an interview or prank phone call of some sort was playing. A woman and a...
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