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Tag: Abdul-Aliy Muhammad

Songs That Soundtracked The AIDS Crisis: City High’s “What Would You Do?”

What would you do, if you knew that many of the songs that captivated older millennials and Gen Yers were…
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Posted on: June 30, 2022 Last updated on: June 30, 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

40 Years From When A Plague Was Out: The 1981 CDC MMWR Report

40 years ago today, the Center for Disease Control’s MMWR released a report, stating that there were 5 cases reported…
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Posted on: June 5, 2021 Last updated on: June 5, 2021 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

Songs That Soundtracked the AIDS Epidemic: Spice Girls “Holler”

“I want to make you holler, and make you scream my name” a song on the third studio album of…
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Posted on: May 27, 2021 Last updated on: May 27, 2021 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

Songs That Soundtracked the AIDS Epidemic: Shirley Murdock’s “As We Lay”

“It’s morning, and we slept the night away” that’s how we are introduced to the soft and powerful voice of…
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Posted on: May 17, 2021 Last updated on: May 17, 2021 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

For the Love of the Goffney Twins

You may remember the story: It was sensational and on the front page of the Philadelphia Daily News. They were…
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Posted on: March 5, 2021 Last updated on: March 9, 2021 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

Songs That Soundtracked The AIDS Epidemic: Janet’s “Together Again”

Sweet harp chords flourish as “Together Again” starts, then it picks up momentum with these lyrics “There are times when…
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Posted on: February 25, 2021 Last updated on: January 29, 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

I Changed My Mind About Community

Last year I broke up with the LGBTQ2 community–well the shallow gatekeepers that ravaged our collective understanding of what it…
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Posted on: June 18, 2020 Last updated on: June 18, 2020 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

An Offering: During A Pandemic

This is an offering, my offering to you and in giving this offering to you, I enrich myself. I am…
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Posted on: May 22, 2020 Last updated on: May 22, 2020 Comments: 0 Written by: louie
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