Calvin Coolidge

It’s been 54 years since the Plain Dealer shared news about Christmas being the symbolic birth date of Jesus the Christ

CLEVELAND, OH – There are adults living in the Cleveland area who have forgotten the annual Plain Dealer news stories about Jesus the Christ on and around Christmas since the newspaper’s name-changing Russian owner cancelled the Christian leader’s presence from their private and family-owned newspaper in 1968. For Plain Dealer readers born after 1967 it’s as if Christmas on December 25th never existed as the symbolic birthday of Jesus on the newspaper’s pages.  George Cornell was the newspaper’s religion writer and December 24, 1966 is the last time his byline appeared on a Plain Dealer story about Jesus.   After that…

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Kamala Harris being graded on a curve and failing the bar on the first try reflects the damage of curve grading students

CLEVELAND, OH – Had Kamala Harris not been so eager to be bussed away from American Negro students as “that little girl,” she might have learned something about the academic standards that elevated our people from zero percent literacy at the end of the Civil War in 1865 to 98.4 percent 105 years later in 1970.  In American Negro schools, during “segregation,” to achieve an “A” a student had to score between 95 and 100.  No curve.  “Anything less demeaned the race.” That’s the mantra I learned from my 8 American Negro teachers from the 1st through the 8th grade…

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“Brother Coolidge’s” vice president wrote the Four Tops “All In the Game” melody

CLEVELAND, OH – One of the sweetest songs the original Four Tops sang was written by mixed-race  Republican President Calvin Coolidge’s vice president.  Charles Dawes was from Marietta, Ohio and a self-taught piano player and flautist.  It means he also played the flute.  Like all true musicians, Dawes had his own sound and combination of melody lines he liked.  Dawes couldn’t get a melody line in “A major” out of his head that consist of the notes A, C sharp and E; so he recorded it.  “Melody in A Major.”  And he played it for audiences.   Dawes played piano as…

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