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This week’s topics include:

•  State of the Union Address Recap
• Santorum does  it again
• Mitt stumbles during debate
• The Southern Republican Presidential Debate in South Carolina got off to a rocky start when CNN’s John King asked Newt Gingrich about his second ex-wife’s ”Open Marriage” allegations.Should allegations and questions of personal character be fair game during a debate?

Living Life With A Purpose!

• Who was the iconic singer that was inducted into the Rock and Roll, Blues and Grammy Hall of Fames?

 Find out during the TanyaFree.com “Living Life With a Purpose 365 Moment”
 

There’s an app for that?!!

In the wonderful world of technology there is an app for almost everything.  Want to steer clear of the “ghetto”? There is an app for that. An app designed to help travelers avoid unsafe neighborhoods has sparked controversy dubbed as the “avoid ghetto” app.  
      
What do you think?  Is this app really about safety or is there something a lot more sinister behind it?  

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 This week’s topics include:

• Tanya Free and Friends Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  
• Occupy The Dream Movement
  
• Scott sisters seek justice in aftermath of Barbour Mississippi pardons
  
• U.S. Marines joking and urinating on the bloody dead bodies of Taliban soldiers, “What were they thinking?”  Obviously, not about any sense of core values, respect and how these actions could jeopardize US –Afghan relations.  What disciplinary actions do you think should be levied?
  

Living Life With A Purpose!

Who was the Tuskegee airman credited with downing two German fighter planes that attacked the US bombers he was escorting?
Find out during the TanyaFree.com “Living Life With A Purpose 365 Moment”
 

U.S. Marines joking and urinating on the bloody dead bodies of Taliban soldiers, “What were they thinking?”  Obviously, not about any sense of core values, respect and how these actions could jeopardize US –Afghan relations.  

What disciplinary actions do you think should be levied?

An Indiana mother recently forced her son to stand on a street corner wearing a sign that read “I lie, I steal, I sell drugs, I don’t follow the law”. She felt as though the community service given her son after breaking the law wasn’t enough to make him change his ways.
How do you feel about her unconventional punishment?

Do you think the discipline was too harsh?

Members of the African-American faith community have joined forces with Occupy Wall Street to launch a new campaign for economic justice inspired by the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Faithful to its philosophical origin, the "Occupy the Dream" coalition has called for a National Day of Action on Martin Luther King Day – Monday, January 16, 2012 – to focus attention on the gross injustice visited upon the 99% by the financial elite.

Thanks to my friend Nate Hicks for this link!

A freedman his entire life, Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate.  Hiram Rhodes Revels was born to free parents of mixed ancestry in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on September 27, 1827. In an era when educating black children was illegal in North Carolina, Revels attended a school taught by a free black woman and learned to read. In 1844, he moved north to complete his education.  In 1845, Revels was ordained in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. Revels is quoted as saying, "at times, I met with a great deal of opposition, I was imprisoned in Missouri in 1854 for preaching gospel to Negroes, though I was never subjected to violence." As a chaplain Revels helped raise two black Union regiments during the Civil War in Maryland and Missouri, and took part of the battle of Vicksburg in Mississippi. With his oratorical skills honed from years as a preacher, Revels filled a vacant seat in the United States Senate in 1870. He represented Mississippi in 1870 and 1871 during Reconstruction.  As of 2011, Revels is one of only six African Americans ever to have served in the United States Senate.

Tanya Free and Friends Radio honors the contributions and legacy of Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels.