July 22, 2026

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Excuse me, are you listening? – 9-21

Rina Risper06 mins

Dear Readers,

 
Karma is something else!
 
Karma is a law in Hinduism, which says that every act you do, no matter how small, will eventually return to the doer with equal impact. Good will be returned with good and bad with bad. 

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Teen Talk: Teen Pregnancy

Rina Risper03 mins

 By Kasserine Tyler-Hicks

 
The other night I was watching a movie on Lifetime called The Pregnancy Pact. This movie was about a group of girls at a high school who made a pact to get pregnant. In one school, there were eighteen girls pregnant at the same time, all under the age of 18.

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Movie Review: “Red”

Rina Risper03 mins

Studio:   Summit Entertainment

Plot:     A team of retired secret agents embark on an impossible, cross-country mission to break into the top-secret CIA headquarters, where they will uncover one of the biggest conspiracies in government history.
Cast:     Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Karl Urban
Rating:     PG-13
Bottom Line:     ***
 
 
By Laurence Washington
 
Die Hard Bruce Willis stars as an ex-CIA agent Frank Moses who has been tagged as “RED,” which refers to his alert level (“retired: extremely dangerous”) by the agency. The film, which attempts to answer the question, is older better, opens up with a black ops hit team invading Moses’ home at night. Although, there are about 10 members of the hit squad trying to kill him, they don’t stand a chance, because in Die Hard fashion, Moses eliminates them one-by-one.

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News Spotlight: Michigan resident Rosemarie Wilson Receives National Poetry Awards

Rina Risper04 mins

Photo: Rosemarie Wilson, author of “One Single Rose . . . Poetry Blossomed from a Rose Core” accepting the New & Upcoming Poet of the Year Award at the 2010 National Poetry Award Ceremony in Raleigh, North Carolina on August 22, 2010.

Wilson’s “Eyes Back to Basics” also wins 1st Place in the Detroit Writers’ Guild 2010 Paul Laurence Dunbar Poetry Contest.

Courtesy photo 

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Schuler Books & Music welcomes New York Times Bestselling Author Victoria Rowell

Rina Risper02 mins

 LANSING, MI — Victoria Rowell is a New York Times Bestselling author, Award-winning actress and lecturer.  Rowell will be at Schuler Books & Music, 2820 Towne Centre Blvd., on Monday, November 1.

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Mother Flippin’:One Funny Mother 9-20

Rina Risper010 mins

Dirty Fingers

 
By Tashmica Torok
 
Have you ever watched yourself?  We all make quick glances in the mirror on our way out the door.  I am wondering if you ever spend time consciously noticing how you move through the world.  Lately, I have.  It has been a time of evaluating my reflection.  Finding new parts of myself and parts that, as it occurs to me now, I just locked away in a trunk for later perusal.

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News Spotlight: Uplift Our Youth Foundation Dinner Fundraiser

Rina Risper02 mins

The Uplift Our Youth Foundation, 6th Annual Grant Award and Fundraising Dinner will be held on Thursday, November 18, 2010 at the University Club of Michigan State University 3435 Forest Road, Lansing MI 48911.  Rufus Gladney Vice-President of Consumers Energy and the chairman of the event announced that the evening begins with a reception at 5:30 PM and dinner at 6:45.  This year’s speaker will be William Mayes, Executive Director of the Michigan Association of School Administrators (MASA).

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New York’s Apollo Theater Exhibit Hits Detroit

Rina Risper011 mins

Apollo Theater Exterior, 2008 

Photo courtesy of the Apollo Theater Foundation, Inc. Photo by Shahar Azran 
 
The first exhibition to explore the Apollo Theater’s seminal impact on American entertainment will be on view at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, Michigan from October 1, 2010 – January 2, 2011. 

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