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Everything Michael did was fabulous. His spirit was so powerful that from the very beginning in Gary, Indiana he was already larger than life. As you know, we've started a conversation which challenges the notion that Michael is dead. In fact, the name of our network, Michael Jackson Lives, speaks to that idea.



Like very few people before him, Michael is bigger now than ever before. Like few people before… Continue

The world's largest marzipán statue of Michael Jackson is in the Szamos Marcipán Múzeum Cukrászda, Hungary's first marzipán museum, showcasing the work of famous marzipan makers Mátyás Szamos and Károly Szabó. Its numerous marzipan marvels include a 1.6-meter long Parliament and a life-size, once-edible statue of Michael Jackson.

If you're in the neighborhood of Budapest, Hungary this is a must see. If only we could have a cool pastry statue like this…

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There are a lot of haters out there. But, the information average people, like you and I, are passing on to people about the real Michael Jackson is starting to take hold. Today my brother, who was a typical hater, told my him and his spouse stayed up late last night to watch a Michael Jackson concert in Budapest. Not only that, but my brother, who's a known Prince fan, even went so far as to compare him to Prince in a positive way. He even let me look at one of his now prized… Continue

Most of you will remember taking a class on the history of your state when you were in Junior High (middle school) or High School. Most of what we learned we forgot as soon as the test was over. I know I forgot, at least that fast.



Well, it dawned on me that if we had studied people that we saw in our neighborhood or who had more relevance to our daily lives we might have remembered our local history and been greatly enriched in the process.



For instance, I've… Continue

Having just returned from a trip to the Jim Crow Museum in Big Rapids, MI and then to receive an eMail with this picture of a Barnes & Noble window in Coral Gables, FL just reinforced everything we saw in the museum.



This whole association of Black people and monkeys has been going on since the days of Darwin, if not longer. The implication is that Black people are a primitive form of life, that Black people cannot even be properly called people, but are part and parcel… Continue