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By Jordan BLair puBLisher hile researching and looking back on the history of Blacks in entertainment in this country, it led me to look at the plight and early history of Black entertainment in America. It appears that Black entertainers were more accepted by White America throughout our history here on t his continent. In fact, the Negro Almanac credits Black performers and their heritage for American performing arts. Indeed, the Negro Almanac states that Black entertainers were “often excluded – both as spectators and participants – from
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performer. However, from the earliest days of slavery, “entertainment was one of the few avenues of expression open to Blacks.” In the book, Black Magic, by Langston Hughes
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Frustrated Customer Did You Lose Power Too? By: Jordan BLair
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f anyone else experienced the waves of power handed out by the energy companies, which
started today (February 2, 2011), then you might be as frustrated as I am. From what I have been told by the “Auto-mated Outage Reporting System,” the energy company is “reducing the load by shutting power off to sections of
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its system; rotating outages every 15 minutes; these are planned outages designed to protect the State’s grid during periods of instability.” Certain homes or businesses may experience blackouts anywhere from 10 to 45 minutes, and then your power should be restored. Unfortunately, power has not been restored for thousands of customers. Well, for some of you, this may be working quite well. However, other homes and businesses are going without power for 2 hours or longer. That’s been my experience. Why weren’t customers notified before the rolling blackouts? What about those people with physical and medical conditions who could have made alternative
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