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What Would You Do?

30 Mar

1992: My boyfriend (at the time) and I were driving 200 miles from Washington, DC, to our hometown Chesapeake, Virginia, in the dead of winter.  He didn’t have heat in his car so we stopped in Lightfoot, Virginia, for coffee to warm up.  While we’re in a 7-Eleven, a white man came in and asked [...]

Corporate America Doesn’t Like Controversy

9 Jul

Last week I saw on iGoogle (probably in the TechDirt feed) that 1938 Media had inked a deal with Verizon Wireless to distribute 1938 Media content on its VCast service.  I didn’t get to read it because it was a busy day.  1938 Media was no stranger to me, however, after all the controversy that [...]