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What Happens When Truth Slaps You in the Face; When Did We Lose Common Sense?!

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During the last presidential campaign, I was tempted to voice where my head was, and more so, my spirit that invariably found closure as I analyzed and dissected two radically different campaigns styles. I elected not to make public social media pronouncements. As my spirit settled on one area of concern (similar to what I felt as I watched the conclusive results of   a losing 2016 effort to win the Office of the President.) my 2024 focus was pointedly on the street-level, boots on the ground practicality of what was occurring within both political party’s campaign and strategic thinking. Once again, as in 2016, the Democrats could not shake its intellectual arrogance. Democratic strategists empowered by powerful funders cloaked their national campaign within a privileged ambiance. And that non-populist mentality failed miserably to compete with the everywo/man’s candidate, a prior president who had the savvy to hold a political rally in “Da” South Bronx and also did a photo op on ...

Brown Bag Lunch Event - Friday, March 21st, Noon-1:30PM - Equal Rights Heritage Center, Auburn, NY

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  Rev. Dr. Flora Wilson Bridges Brown Bag Lunch Reading, “On Becoming…” with excerpts from her book,  Resurrection Song: African American Spirituality  complemented by personal anecdotes Immediately following the reading, there will be a moderator-led discussion and Q&A presented by aaduna. Free and open to the public. Email bill@aaduna.org Rev. Dr. Flora Wilson Bridges For a decade, Rev. Dr. Flora Wilson Bridges has been pastor at Rendall Memorial Presbyterian Church in Harlem. Among other outreach, the congregation's Christian social ministry operates a  twenty-bed homeless shelter in the basement of the church. Dr. Bridges administers this ministry. She also serves as a Union Theological Seminary adjunct professor at Bedford Hills Women's Correctional Facility. Prior to Rendall Presbyterian, Rev. Bridges served as Senior Minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn.   A native of Bainbridge, Georgia she grew up on Chicago’s South Side. She...

Another year...

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  Thank you for your sentiments; another year quickly came to closure and has now morphed into another new year. In essence, I am good. Celestial angels continue to bless me even as I wonder why and think that they have me mixed up with someone else! The past several weeks best “capsulates” the past year as far as being busy with activities that have ranged across diverse interests. Of note, aaduna continues to be a “playa.”    Back in June, as part of the Auburn’s 2024 city-wide Juneteenth celebrations,  aaduna  in partnership with the Auburn Enlarged City School District , Seymour Library and the Friends of Seymour Library hosted “Words and Art” with poets Howard Nelson, Chantel Frazier, Ron Van Nostrand, Sarah Collins and Shawnte Blyss Barr; an exhibition of artwork by 3 rd  and 4 th  grade    Owasco Elementary students, and the premier of Auburn artist, writer and muralist, Arthur Hutchinson’s newest work “Cosmic Black Joy,” an exhibitio...

The Excellence of Tradition

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  Howard Nelson on stage at aaduna's Halloween Gala Fundraiser, October 31, 2019  Carriage House Theater, Auburn, NY  In every community whether seen as a country, state, county, big city or small town, there are creative people who have an extended their creativity instincts to such an height that they are considered giants in their creative field. Interestingly, when the public may deem such creatives as being at the pinnacle of their artistry, these folks keep pushing the creative envelope. They continue to explore new nuances and themes, as well as re-interpreting what as been accepted as excellence in their field. These traits make them exciting people “to watch” since their creativity enables the public to explore personal concepts and attitudes of the relationship between artistic merit and life’s daily dynamics.   Howard Nelson (photo credit:  Lisa Brennan) Howard Nelson has lived in Cayuga County since 1970. Born in New Jersey in 1947, he was educated ...