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Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, wherever you are reading. 

Welcome to the 2nd edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The thirty-fourth of the Cento series.  A cento is a poem made by an author from the lines of another author's work. In the series I place my cento and a link to the other authors poem.  

2) Centos 2023

3) should you feel sorry for artist

4) wiser to accept all humanity online

5) Shirley Chisholm biopic

6)Salvador Bahia Calendar

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Tsatsral Erdenebileg 2nd Marinelli bend record

Haibun

A Literary Animation

Uska Dara

CENTO Series episode 34

Lady respect strolled into town

But they closed their doors to her

To vilify , demonize, decry, and desecrate

Lady respect strolled into town

So they drove her out, casting stones

Locked the windows and took up arms

Lady respect strolled into town
https://www.deviantart.com/barosus/art/The-Abolition-of-Decency-980290372

The following is a poetry form I was recently introduced to , called a Sijo, Korean poetic style. For this cento I have specific notes that I shared below after the URL of the source poem

Sapiens matriculate poisonous aeromovement

Morticians matriculate miracles destitution

Rationwort archevideo,  biotemporals continue
https://www.deviantart.com/malintra-shadowmoon/art/The-Wind-of-the-Moment-980500401

Sijo Structure Notes
It seems to take a Korean syllabic form, three lines, four words each, the syllable map is below
3-4-3-4, 3-4-3-4, 3-5-4-3 
use nature to express an emotion, themes of 
1st line- introduce situation
2nd line- development
3rd line- twist + conclusion
a twist a surprise of meaning, sound, or other device.
but the end/conclusion is not meant to be witty
usually untitled

I will utilize three words from the first three lines of malintra's poem: wind/wonder/moment
Now I will have to use synonyms for said words
Aeromovement- wind or air movement
Miracle- a wonder
Temporal- a moment

Word Notes
matriculate- as in register, not birth
miracles for wonders
Wort- as in plant , not growth on epidermis of humans
ration as in reasoning, not divided resource 
rationwort- a reasoning plant
arche- as in old 
sapiens -the whole genus including homo sapiens- humans
bio- meaning life
temporals- moments 

If you are interested in reading my own lines, here is a collection

Or if you prefer to listen,

here is a recording with art, can you tell the Cento I made of my own work in the art? 

I do calligraphic commissions

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/commission/Microcalligraphy-signatures-1487995

Centos 2023

My centos from 2023, enjoy

and tell me your favorite

should you feel sorry for artist

A nonartist shared the following graphic from a computer upon request and said, they feel sorry for artist? 

Do you? click the image or the text link below to read my answer

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2569&type=status

wiser to accept all humanity online

someone spoke of being frustrated by the daily , constant presence of those online who collect their work into collections they deem inappropriate, the following is my answer

to answer your questions

because human desires or taste have always been a complete spectrum, an infinite spectrum and no law, no blockade, no penalty, no condemnation can stop that from being true or exhibited.

Because individual humans are just that individuals and true individuality isn't the ability to be unique while accepted or liked, it is to be unique regardless of whether you are accepted or liked and penalties from anyone, deviantart or common members of deviantart  can't blockade it.

I don't know the majority tastes in the populace of deviantart members. But I know deviantart wants the complete width of humanity using it and said width has all tastes in it. 

Two accounts on deviantart or any other website will not blockade the full width in humanity and said width includes all the taste any one human likes + dislikes

The only way an online  website which wants all of humanity using it, can stop a certain section in humanity from using it is to become what it doesn't want, private. 

https://www.deviantart.com/francoisl-artblog/journal/Little-talk-1009252096

Shirley Chisholm biopic

What messages from Shirley Chisholm do you recall most?

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2571&type=status

Salvador Bahia Calendar

January 

to see more

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2570&type=status

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Tsatsral Erdenebileg 2nd Marinelli bend record

legendary athleticism leading to a world record

Haibun

A haibun is a mix of poetry plus verse in some fashion, an example pf what is called a prosimetric in europe. Think a thousand and one nights or beowulf. 

Here is an example from lindartz

A Literary Animation

from Simon Petocz

enjoy

The following is a still from the animation and a little something special

a still

something special

waning it is mature, from coolbeaniebabeez

https://www.deviantart.com/coolbeaniebabeez/art/Kiana-Bedroom-Fun-loop-animation-997708027

Uska Dara

the rendition from Eartha Kitt

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/345-richard-murray-creative-table-3/

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, wherever you are reading. 

Welcome to the 52nd edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The thirty-first of the Cento series.  A cento is a poem made by an author from the lines of another author's work. In the series I place my cento and a link to the other authors poem.  

2) Winter Wonderland

3)Commission

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Afro Brazilian Museum + Iansa Celebration

Black Lion and Cubs

The Little Things

Journal of Stitchery

CENTO Series episode 31

Atop razor wire crowned crenellations

There is a tragic beauty

And below in the apocalyptic wreckage

Love is cast adrift on caustic tides
https://www.deviantart.com/barosus/art/Tattered-Flag-977798003

Daringly he leaps and prances

Soft words he purrs in willing ears

And many a lovely maiden

With rogish flair on full display

Peaceful, at the end of day
https://www.deviantart.com/barosus/art/Sir-K-For-Kitten-978162756

If you are interested in reading my own lines, here is a collection

Or if you prefer to listen,

here is a recording with art, can you tell the Cento I made of my own work in the art? 

I do calligraphic commissions

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/commission/Microcalligraphy-signatures-1487995

Winter Wonderland

For my winter wonderland I think of a city in an urban world, where during the december solstice, when the night is longest in the northern hemisphere or day is longest in the southern hemisphere, the moon allow a loving couple to walk from one hemisphere to another. The housing projects act as a series of pedastals to or from the sands of the south.

colored pencil version

graphite version

Commission

a calligraphic signature commission

if you like the commission above, use the link below to get one yourself

DATES

• 24 : John Hopkins died 1873 , his will paid for the john hopkins university system
• 26: Full cold moon; First Day of Kwanzaa, umoja, unity
• 27 Second Day of Kwanzaa, kujichagulia, self determination ; george cayley born 1773 described aerodynamics more complete than any other in europe
• 28 Third day of Kwanzaa, Ujima, collective work and responsibility
• 29 Fourth day of kwanzaa, ujamaa, cooperative economics; Great Nebula in Andromeda M31 photo 1888

• 30 Fifth day of kwanzaa, nia, purpose

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Afro Brasilian Museum

Museu Afro-Brasiliero in Salvador , Bahia

One in their collection

As an insignia it represents power and high rank in the Afro-Brazilian socio-religious hierarchy. There is a recurrence of stylization of the carvings, mainly on the back and its upper part, containing symbols referring to the initiate's orixá, vodun or inquice. Belonging to the Laura Costa Santos vodunce (1904-1979) from Nação Ewe jeje, daughter of the Manezinho de Oxossi terreiro, the chair was donated by Walter Rocha in 1983

The museum website
http://www.mafro.ceao.ufba.br/

Iansa Celebration

Iansa is known as Oya in other places. The spirit of storms, thunderstorms. 

and debris from human craft about earth falling like meteors

what about a story that start with a human meteor fall?

Black Lion and Cubs

nice game, nice trailer, check it out, complete work, good fun

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/434-black-lion-and-cubs-a-valley-of-the-kings-cartoon/

The Little Things

very cute

Journal of Stitchery

enjoy

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/345-richard-murray-creative-table-3/

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, wherever you are reading. 

Welcome to the 8th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter 

How was your Valentine's day, I hope well. Enjoy the Valentine day art below. Salvador Carnival began on the 15th and ends on the 22nd. I added a stream, that you can see live shows from Salvador, Bahia districts. My first stageplay is ready. Tell me what you think. It is a preplay to a larger work that will be in my JiHi series. Tell me what you think.

ROSES 

https://www.deviantart.com/thebootesartvoid/art/The-Petals-Of-Tradition-948755849

https://www.flickr.com/photos/10122011@N04/52677635512/in/dateposted/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/10122011@N04/52678144266/in/dateposted/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/10122011@N04/52678144691/in/dateposted/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/belindavick/52687513991/in/feed-508775-1676330091-3-72157721657630675

If you like the cover, consider my commissions

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/commission/Microcalligraphy-signatures-1487995

Four days before Carnival in Bahia, this was Salvador

LINK

See the Carnival in Salvador Bahia

Enjoy my first stageplay

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Onto-the-53rd-Annual-President-s-Play-950123510

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Enjoy these post Valentine's day treats

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/345-richard-murray-creative-table-3/

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, wherever you are reading. 

Welcome to the 7th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter 

I offer others questions and my answers concerning Valentines Day. And Carnival is alive and kicking in Brasil. Are you ready for your local variant?  I offer others questions and my answers concerning Black History Month. I will love to know your answers, remember you can guest comment. If you want to read the 590 page civilian complaint review board assessment to the NYPD in 2020 read above IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR. 

Happy Besooned Valentine's Day

What medium or style of art are you most obsessed with?
None, I am not obsessed to any medium or style of art. But the art I will like to be satisfied in creating that I am farthest from is literature based games. But I am romancing it, so to speak.

What love-themed artwork(s) do you believe are the most powerful, and why?
I will say love songs are the most powerful from love themed artworks. Why? At their best they are a blend of two heart felt passions wrapped in one. 
The words when best, have a comprehension that can be sung by a mute lover through their eyes or a lonely yearning person calling out in isolation. 
But, when a vocalist is at their best, they can utilize the words to emit frequencies that massage the doubts or dismissals from one who has no memory of a loving touch or provide paths for memories in the wind to re-enter the silverhaired. 
Unlike the film, the song need not be seen. 
Unlike the painting, the song touches the body. 
Unlike the book, the song has a voice when one can't imagine it on their own.
If you are interested in some love songs, consider the list in the following work, I suggest Nat King Cole, Fly Me To The Moon

Has love or obsession inspired you to create a work of art? If so, share it in your comment and talk about how the feeling inspired it!
Yes, love has inspired the following work. I am a private person. It is a gif + poetry, click to see.

If you will like something to color for Valentine's day consider the following version, please share with me if you do

If you want to listen to the poetry , I offer the following

Referral Page
https://www.deviantart.com/team/journal/Heart-to-HeArt-Share-love-for-Valentines-Day-944781878
 

Carnival 

Salvador Carnival begins on the 15th and ends on the 22nd

And honoring Yemanya never ends, Odoya Iemanja!

Video is available at the link below

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2227&type=status
 

BLACK HISTORY MONTH Q&A

What Black artists have inspired you, and what about their work do you find inspiring?

For writing: Zora Neale Hurston+ August Wilson+ Dwayne McDuffie

For drawing: Jean Michele Basquiat 

For sculpting: Dahomey sculpture artist , Edmonia Lewis

For dance: Sammy Davis Jr, Gregory Hines, Michael Jackson

For photography: Gordon Parks

For Music: Louis Armstrong, Marvin Gaye, Sweet Honey on the Rock, Sade 

I have more but they came first to mind

Zora Neale Hurston for cognizing the value of Black Art that was being forgotten or lost during her own time, while creating art that cherished an aspect of the Black community that wasn't as in favor as other black artist or white owned media cared for.

August Wilson for the way in which Black communal life is presented complexly while unaffrontingly, I find too many Black artists write Black people as weapons. 

Dwayne McDuffie for influence on Milestone and his width of imagination.

Basquiat for his unique art way and being a fellow New Yorker, surviving for a time, the life of an artists, which can be tough

Dahomey sculpture's for an art work I like a lot they made and it is poignant to me personally.

Edmonia Lewis for never quitting while having two elements of herself that she had to accept met various resistance, and her cleopatra is magnificent.

Sammy Davis jr for how multitalented he was while always a dancer at heart

Gregory Hines for how he always presented tap dance in a street way

Michael Jackson for making dance mandatory in musical acts after him

Gordon Parks for how long it took him to begin to make it, in his 40s but he never stopped trying and reached out creatively when he did, not settling

Louis Armstrong for being relevant artistically while watching his art form change/grow/morph throughout his entire life

Marvin Gaye for telling it like it is with his art

Sweet Honey on the Rock for the soul in their voice

Sade cause she never forces the sound. 

I have many Black artist I am inspired by. 

I hope I can do as they did to me to someone else Black.

What are some of your favorite artworks that depict African American culture?

The People Can Fly written by Virginia Hamilton and illustrated by Leo and Dianne Dillon. Virginia Hamilton in the spirit of Zora Neale Hurston kept alive stories that many Black homes had forgotten on their own intention. And she rewrote them lovely. Leo Dillon cause working with his white wife, Dianne, they just had a great sense of making art that didn't seem imitative but was accessible in intent to all. 

A few private works in my home. :) 

In what ways do you think art can be used to foster understanding and appreciation across cultures?

Art by default is messages from one or many individuals about their heritage<what they carry > or culture < what they grow> to whomever access it. 

I argue that art is meant to convey, the comprehension or appreciation some want art to instill in those who access art must come from the accessors themselves. 

I like the works of Ravel or the marches of the national socialist part of germany. But neither of said artful acts is why I don't attack french people or why I don't concur to the Nazi party. 

Art unfortunately is asked to be the peaceful bludgeon and that is unfair. 

The best way to utilize art is to allow art, the freedom of art. Said freedom will generate art work that you may oppose or dislike heavily, in my case Birth of a nation by Demille. But, it exposes the truth of the communities that create them. 

And rightly or wrongly, the truth is the beginning to any peaceful comprehension or appreciation between any, even if said duo is never reached in part or whole by one who access art. 

If you are interested in my writing , consider the following

enjoy my interpretation of a mascot for deviantart

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2240&type=status

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Title: Ariel Artist: RaySeb

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2228&type=status

Title: Blackity Black Artist: Coco Michelle

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2230&type=status

Title:  A Champion <The artist said the sword is enchanted obsidian> Artist: GDBee

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2235&type=status

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2243&type=status

It's about trust y'all

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/345-richard-murray-creative-table-3/

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, wherever you are reading. 

Welcome to the 6th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter 

This is the month of purification. What makes you feel pure? Purity defined as unchaotic internally, not unmixed. Enjoy the events and dates for the month, remember, even old dates may have informative or fun links. The 2nd is the Festival of Iemanja in Salvador Bahia, Odoya Iemanja!.  Odoya mean mother. And it is also groundhog day. A list of groundhog day events throughout the USA is linked below for you to connect to. Note in the EVENTS AND DATES below, the Green Comet. On the 21st is Mardi Gras in New Orleans, laissez les bon temps rouler!.  I share my submitted and late entries into the promoting positivity challenge in Deviantart. Check them out below. They are varied in nature or content. Hope you enjoy. At their terminal is a question to Black history month. And the main section ends with two covers , one of thriller from Michael jackson by Wayne brady side the Postmodern Jukebox, the other of nothing else matters from Metallica by Tia Simone side the Post Modern Jukebox. If you make it that far, enjoy the surprises.

EVENTS AND DATES

• 1-Space Shuttle Colombia disaster 2003
• 2-Moon rides high- highest angle above equator ; Festival of Yemenya ; Groundhog day; A Green Comet will approach earth that hasn't been as close to earth < 42 million kilometers > since the stone age. LINK LINK2 LINK3 
• 3- New York State  prohibited slavery on this day The 13th Amendment, which prohibits slavery in the United States of America outside the encarcerated, was proposed on January 31, 1865. New York is the 5th state to pass the law on Feb 3, 1865. If you live in the USA , do you know when the state you live in prohibited slavery? 
• 4- Moon at apogee from Earth, farthest from Earth in its elliptical orbit
• 5-Full Snow Moon - most snow in northern hemisphere, sometimes called a hungry moon cause food was scarcest.
• 7- First ballet performance in Bowery Theater , New York City , 1827, it was the Deserter, by Jean Bercher Dauberval, some say the first ballet performed in the United States of America LINK
• 8- College of William and Mary chartered in 1693, its wren building is the oldest college building in the United States of America<U.S.A.>. The college itself is the second oldest in the U.S.A. If you want to read their original charter use the following LINK
• 9- Moon on Equator- a line of the equator from earth is through the virtual center of the moon
• 10- Mercury+Pluto conjunction ; The Treaty of Paris 1763 was signed which ended the Seven Years War <1756-1763> LINK The funny thing is the USA in the Treaty of Paris 1783 became officially recognized by England, thus accepted.  The Seven Years War was a prelude to what will later be called the War to end all wars LINK
• 12-Moon at descending node- moving north to south of the ecliptic- the path of the sun in the sky ; Abraham Lincoln born 1809
• 13- Chuck Yeager born 1923 LINK
• 14- Valentine's day LINK and ENJOY
• 15- Venus = Neptune conjunction
• 16- Moon runs low- greatest angle beneath the equator for the moon; Saturn = Sun conjunction; Nylon or Linear Condensation Polymers patented1937 #2,130,948 to Wallace Carothers , he committed suicide drinking Potassium cyanide LINK
• 17- Pluto + Moon conjunction
• 18- Mercury + Moon conjunction ; Louis Comfort Tiffany born 1848 LINK
• 19- Moon at Perigee- moon closest to earth in its orbit ; Saturn + Moon conjunction; Copernicus born 1473  he would write the De revolutionibus orbium coelestium or On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres Title , Order of spheres 
• 20- Frederick Douglass died 1895 writer of Composite Nation LINK ; New Moon - Earth blocks sunlight to the moon ;  Presidents day in the USA, did Frederick Douglass's Composite Nation speech make him President Worthy ?
• 21-Neptune Moon conjunction; Mardi Gras, earliest news Link1 Link2 Link3  ; 1857 Half cent denomination discontinued in the U.S.A. 
• 22- Moon on Equator ; Venus+Moon conjunction ;  Jupiter+Moon conjunction ; Ash Wednesday ; George Washington born 1732
• 24-Moon ascending node- going from south to north of the ecliptic- the path of the sun in the sky; Sid Meier born 1954- cocreator of the Microprose company co-developer of the Civilization game 
• 25-Uranus+Moon conjunction; Christopher Wren died 1723 the exterior of pembroke college chapel that he designed LINK
• 27- Mars+Moon conjunction

February 2nd was Yemenya Day

let us honor the Spirit of the Sea

A child of Earth

Granddaughter of the Sun

Great Grand Daughter of Nature

https://www.deviantart.com/oradiancporciuncula/art/Iemanja-829291882 

May she give me more luck 

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/sunset-children-stories

Do you know where the nearest Groundhog day is to your location?

https://countdowntogroundhogday.com/groundhogs-from-around-the-world

PROMOTING POSITIVITY ENTRIES

• Section 1: Prompt 1 - comment on any art I wanted , to see the various entries commented on utilize the following journal link  https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Positivity-December-2022-Section-1-Prompt-1-941477089
• Section 1: Prompt 2 - comment of unique art forms, to see the various entries commented on utilize the following journal link https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Positivity-December-2022-Section-1-Prompt-2-941478176
• Section 2: Prompt 1 - use 4 colors for 4 seasons
  https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Positivity-December-2022-Section-2-Prompt-1-947227324
• Enjoy the seasons image and the 4 seasons rondo poem

• Section 2: Prompt 2 - remake an artwork in a style- view the following journal link  to compare the original and the remake https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Positivity-December-2022-Section-2-Prompt-2-947230376
• The remake, the character is Wise Alek, I am slowly building him or his world. I finally has his theme song

• Section 2: Prompt 3 - remaking an older art work in another style, use the following journal link to compare the older to the newer https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Positivity-December-2022-Section-2-Prompt-3-947235678
• The remake- a pregnant woman serenaded by a cloud

• Section 2: Prompt 4 - 5 random items to make a story, details in the process in the following link https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Positivity-December-2022-Section-2-Prompt4-947552463
• The story of, The Final Distance of The Twenty Third I.R.C.L. Tour of Earth

• Late Entries
  • Section 4: Prompt 1 - asking the composite about the black concerning the arts https://www.deviantart.com/forum/community/politics/2691569/
  • Section 5: Prompt 1 - on promoting positivity https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/My-Final-Thoughts-on-Positivity-Challenge-2022-947598367

Black History Month Questions

1. Regardless to who you are, composite nation members look above to Frederick Douglass in the 20th of EVENTS AND DATES, can you name an art form that originated in the Black community in the U.S.A. that has not been embraced by other communities, non black or black from somewhere else outside the U.S.A.?
   • For example: Rap or Hip Hop or Jazz of the Banjo do not count as answers.
2. If you are Black, whether African /Asian/Indigenous to America/ male/female/young/old/latino/sino/anglo or any other non phenotypical association, are you a member of a Black owned website? 
   • What would happen if every Black person on earth joined at least one Black owned website? I am a member of the African American Literary Book Club. Owned and Administered by Troy Johnson. Let us try to get every Black person in the internet to join at least one Black owned website.

Cover of Thriller featuring Wayne Brady aside the Post Modern Jukebox

And Nothing Else Matters featuring Tia Simone side the Post Modern Jukebox

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Enjoy more Lunar New Year Celebration craft

Mui Gwai by Alice Meichi Li LINK

https://www.myplasticheart.com/214-mui-gwai-by-alice-meichi-li/ 

Red Envelope show celebrating chinese new year
https://www.myplasticheart.com/red-envelope-show-2023/

The following is Filigre Inlay from a person whose online name is Grandma Handicraft.

youtube-gyroscope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImZF2QsDk7o
tumblr- pendant
https://www.tumblr.com/ilikeit-art/705775479278452736?source=share

I read from somehwere but I have no idea if true, the following...Filigre Inlay is an intangible cultural heritage of China. This form of art was invented during the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period (770-221 BC), and peaked during the Mid-Late Ming Dynasty (1435-1644).

The following is more legitimate information

The Filigre Inlay technique discussed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX41yWwGsm8

Pele saw his two grandchildren from the daughter he had out of wedlock with his maid and put said daughter in his will
https://www.ladbible.com/sport/pele-secret-daughter-will-inheritance-151288-20230117

Double dutch queen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smn4juIHtuI

If you like my storytelling , consider the two following books to be read

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/345-richard-murray-creative-table-3/

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2210&type=status
 

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2207&type=status 

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2204&type=status

If you live in the USA do you know when the state you live in passed the 14th amendment? 

The 13th amendment made slavery illegal except in incarcerations or prisons. But, the 14th amendment guaranteed the rights of all citizens or other persons in the usa. Note all other persons extends to criminals or illegal immigrants or civilians. 

The 14th amendment was proposed on June 13th 1866, New York State passed it in January 10th, 1867

Women abused in the military

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2198&type=status

My Reply to his speech prefaced by thoughts on his time

The 12th was the Lavagem de Bonfim in Salvador

Bonfim is another name for Oxala or Obatala