Thanksgiving Day is a formal celebration in many countries around the world. In America, Thanksgiving was birth from a harvest festival shared between the English Colonists and the Wampanoag Indians in 1621. The festival was also a time to express gratitude for other blessings over the past year. However, between 1621 and up to the… Read more »
The announcement of Joe Biden as president elect of the 2020 presidential race did not settle well with many Americans and resulted in protest around the nation due to what many felt was a rigged presidential race that led to Biden’s victory. Post election blues and waging protests against sitting president, presidential candidates, or presidential-elect… Read more »
For the last four years on his nightly MSNBC show, Brian Williams has counted down the days of the Trump presidency. As November 3, 2020, drew closer, the polls and the pundits were giddy with excitement as they predicted a blue wave. Of course, true to form as in any soap opera or reality TV… Read more »
The 2020 presidential election will be remembered as one of the most contentious election in history. However the 2020 election is not the first presidential election that has had its share of challenges and conflicts. For example, the presidential election of 1860 was not only contentious, but it tore the nation apart. Abraham Lincoln, who… Read more »
In the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, we asked a panel of distinguished guests to share their opinions on the outcome. Dr. Jennifer, Mercieca, professor of communications at Texas A & M University questioned the media’s involvement, “They put the camera in front of Donald Trump for a year and a half and they gave… Read more »
In his 1841 essay,“Compensation”, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: “In the order of nature we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit we receive must be rendered again, line for line, deed for deed, cent for cent, to somebody”. Emerson’s words are a great summary of the… Read more »
Thanks to the Food Donors from WMNF’s Fall Fund Drive ~ Oct 5th – 24th, 2020 We’d never make it through without the generosity of these folks who gave us breakfast, lunch, dinner & snack donations!! If you frequent these businesses or know these donors, please mention that you appreciate their support of 88.5FM… Read more »
