#mark spence

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Abortion is not just a woman’s issue. It’s a human rights issue. Today, with more than 28% of all black pregnancies ending in induced abortion, it is a human crisis.

Abortion is the number one killer of black lives in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, abortion kills more black people than HIV, homicide, diabetes, accident, cancer, and heart disease … combined.

In 2014, African-American women comprised 13.3% of the U.S. population, but black women had 36% of all abortions.

- Mark Spence

Music Journalism is in a weird place these days. For starters, many would be forgiven for immediately responding with, “Music Journalism? Why hello Old Boy, I thought you were dead”, or, more likely: “Music what?!?” It’s OK. It’s been a rough 10-20 years (by some estimations), but feel free to place the “death of music journalism” tombstone wherever you like in your own personal or global…

Can We Trust the Bible?

Pristine acres of mud neatly sliced & cut with promise and price-tags adorned.

A parade, a school band, rambling speeches galore with all the best clichés.

This new part of town: a beautiful creation, surgically envisioned.

Still, they eat & clap & eat the sumptuous tasteless catering accept a few brochures and make nice with their new neighbors.

Later, they turn their heads and in a stage whisper…

More curious and less certain these days, quieter and easily led. History? Is there such a thing? Gentle confusion that paceslike a cat at midnight wanting nothing but movement motion acknowledgement.

It’s pleasant enough let us invent some meaning.