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MUSIC: Steve Lacy – Dark Red

February 23, 2017Media Diary

  In 2016 the members of the music group The Internet announced that 2017 would be the year that each member of the group released a solo album. Fin by lead vocalist...

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The Social Media Fast

August 30, 2016August 31, 2016Adulting, Health, Media Diary, People

Social media has its upsides, but as Mercury retrogrades are times to reflect, revise and review, Chakka is examining her relationship with social media by taking a break from it. She explains more in this post.

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Five Short Films and My Next Magic Trick

April 13, 2015July 15, 2016In my humble opinion

It’s been a while since I’ve posted on Freedomreeves.com. This entire time I’ve been thinking about posts I want to write, but my perfectionist-rooted procrastination has reached epic heights. The...

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The Ferguson Lesson- Three Reasons to #CancelBlackFriday

November 26, 2014November 28, 2014In my humble opinion, Lessons Learned

I woke up at 4am on the morning of Tuesday, November 25th. I was faced with a challenge: In four hours, I would stand in front of four classrooms filled...

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Why We Need Boundaries, Online and Offline

October 19, 2014July 10, 2016Lessons Learned, People

When I log on to Tumblr or Twitter nowadays, useful, fun and inspiring content is being replaced by venting gone viral. I see responses to people who say things like “You’re...

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Michael Jackson, Holograms and Capitalism

May 19, 2014In my humble opinion

Corporations will do anything to make money, even raise the dead. Freedom's thoughts on the Michael Jackson hologram performance at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards.

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Three Reasons I Wrote About Suicide For TheRoot.com

April 29, 2014April 29, 2014In my humble opinion, Writing

When blogger Karyn Washington died of depression (I put it this way because depression is a disease that can kill, suicide is just the way it happens), the sadness I...

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The Corners and Classrooms of Chicago-#FreedomTeaches

April 9, 2014April 17, 2014Lessons Learned, Media Diary

This post is a part of the “Freedom Teaches” series, where I post my reflections on teaching video production in the alternative schools of Chicago.  “The Corner” is a recently...

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