Duckie Simpson talks Black Uhuru and the reality of the music business
Derrick “Duckie” Simpson, founder of the world’s top-selling reggae band after Bob Marley and The Wailers, has been in the
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Stephen Cooper is a former D.C. public defender who worked as an assistant federal public defender in Alabama between 2012 and 2015. He has contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers in the United States and overseas. He writes full-time and lives in Woodland Hills, California. His twitter is: @SteveCooperEsq
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In the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s tapping of Alabama senator Jeff Sessions for Attorney General, Bob Marley fans and
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The interminable failure of government to marshal all available resources, brainpower, imagination, and resolution of spirit, to finally solve Flint,
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If he were alive, the Honorable Robert Nesta “Bob” Marley, O.M. (Order of Merit), would have celebrated his 71st birthday on
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The death penalty victimizes the innocent children and family members of condemned men and women. These are citizens of this
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Chief United States District Judge for the Middle District of Alabama, W. Keith Watkins, has big-time beef with the medical
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“Friend” is a reddish-brown submarine of a dog not unlike a cross between a miniature Jersey cow and tan Easter
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