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Kola
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Username: Kola
Post Number: 1759
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 09:04 pm: | 
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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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Username: Radiationx
Post Number: 32
Registered: 06-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 11:26 pm: |
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(b) Gwendolyn Brooks
What is the name of Russia's most famous poet
and what is his race? |
Abm
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Abm
Post Number: 3669
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 11:53 pm: |
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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'. |
Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 522
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 12:18 am: |
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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. |
Kola
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Username: Kola
Post Number: 1762
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 12:22 am: |
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Yeah.
*ahem* ABM. Your turn to ask.
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Abm
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Abm
Post Number: 3670
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 01:36 am: |
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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” |
Kola
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Username: Kola
Post Number: 1765
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 04:33 am: |
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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
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Abm
Post Number: 3673
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 11:25 am: |
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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. |
Kola
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Username: Kola
Post Number: 1769
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 11:48 am: |
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So was I right about Isabel Sanford or what, ABM?
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Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 3680
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 12:00 pm: |
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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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