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THE RICHARDSON REPORT: CAN THE GOP WIN THE PRESIDENCY WITHOUT PLAYING THE RACE CARD?
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THE RICHARDSON REPORT: CAN THE GOP WIN THE PRESIDENCY WITHOUT PLAYING THE RACE CARD?
This past week, I had a surprise visit from my mother who lives in Georgia. Surprise wasn’t the half of it. On a Saturday night at 11:59 p.m., she contacted me to let me know that she would be flying into Grand Rapids at 12:00 p.m. Grand Rapids? Did she know how much gas was?
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New Resolution #32: “4 8 2… Uh … Man, I’m sorry. I don’t ever call myself…”
I’d like to say Happy Mother’s Day to all of the mothers and surrogate mothers. I’d also like to say Happy Mother’s Day to my mother, Deloris Stokes Risper. This is still a special day and even though my mother is no longer here, I still want to honor her because she brought me into this world.
Plot: Billionaire industrialist Tony Stark builds a high-tech suit of armor and leads a double-life as the superhero, Iron Man.
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges, Shaun Toub, Allison McAtee, Stacy Stas
Rating: PG-13
Bottom Line: ***

All That Matters
By Jan Goldstein
ISBN: 1-4013-0110-/x
Publisher: Hyperion
Available: Bookstores everywhere
Being biracial isn’t the hardest thing in the world but having to grow up with the prejudices that it brings is. I’m the proud product of a Black Caribbean American mother and a white Italian biological father.