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Kola
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Post Number: 1759
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Posted on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 09:04 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I'M STEALING AN OLD THREAD IDEA FROM YVETTEP:

Multiple Questions!!

Answer one, ask one. New categories welcome!

[Category: BOOKS]
(1) Who was the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize?

(a) James Baldwin
(b) Gwendolyn Brooks
(c) Alice Walker
(d) Richard Wright

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Radiationx
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Posted on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 11:26 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

(b) Gwendolyn Brooks

What is the name of Russia's most famous poet

and what is his race?
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Abm
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Post Number: 3669
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Posted on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 11:53 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Radiationx,

The previous version of this game was in the multiple choice format (ala Kola's).

But Aleksandr Pushkin is the answer to your question. And Pushkin had a Black great-great grandfather.

Pushkin is not only considered Russia's greatest poet, he's consider the founder of modern Russia Literature.

Pushkin is Russia's 'Shakespeare'.
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Yvettep
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Posted on Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 12:18 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Speaking of Pushkin, did anyone read "Pushkin and the Queen of Spades"? (Can't remember the author off hand...the same woman who wrote "Wind Done Gone")

*ahem* So now, Abm, your turn to ask.
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Kola
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Posted on Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 12:22 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Yeah.

*ahem* ABM. Your turn to ask.

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Abm
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Posted on Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 01:36 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Who's the ONLY African American Female to win an Emmy for Lead Actress in a TV Comedy:

1) Phylicia Rashad - Claire Huxtable of "The Cosby Show"
2) Isabel Sanford – Louis “Weezie” Jefferson of "The Jefferson"
3) Esther Rolle – Florida Evans of “Good Times”
4) Tisha Campbell-Martin – Janet Kyle of “My Wife and Kids”
5) Jasmine Guy – Whitley Gilbert-Wayne of “A Different World”
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Kola
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Posted on Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 04:33 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Isabel Sanford?



I don't recall any of those others getting an EMMY----although Esther Rolle certainly deserved one.

There's a poem in my book "NILE RIVER WOMAN" about Esther Rolle. I loved her and Beah Richards.

Here's the poem:





ESTHER ROLLE

When you die...come back to life
So we can laugh and cry and curse the living!
O! I want to curse anything.
Drab concrete sky leaving me with too many songs.
Sadness leaves, because
I forget the words.
The words are so many, I just wrinkle
up and laugh and squeeze my
hurting hands.

I remember being young and frisky.
I remember being a creamy hot thing.
I remember the lemony days and hasty dreamy nights
that snuck away with the words.
Stole away.

The one song I remember, the one I loved
went:

"when you die...come back to life"



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Abm
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Posted on Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 11:25 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Kola,

Nice poem! I miss seeing Esther around. I think the last thing I saw her in was John Singleton's "Rosewood".

Do you know that during the height of the popularity of "The Cosby Show", Rashad was not ONCE even nominated for an Emmy? That STILL pisses Cosby off.
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Kola
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Posted on Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 11:48 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

So was I right about Isabel Sanford or what, ABM?


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Abm
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Posted on Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 12:00 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Kola,

Oh. I'm sorry. Yes. Weezie's the only sistah to win the award.

Which, btw, is GREAT for Isabel. And f@#$-ed up for all the other fine Black TV comedians.

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