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The first known study of the black musical form of call-and-response and its immense significance in African American oral and literary practices is \"A Study in Negro Folk Rhymes\" by Thomas W. Talley (1870-1952) in his book Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With A Study (1922), a collection of black secular folksongs, unquestionably the first such compilation by a black scholar. Belonging to collections on black music and poetry published during the Harlem Renaissance or New Negro Movement,1 Talley and his text do not appear in studies about the period. They are absent from The Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (2004) and Harlem Renaissance Lives (2009), two compendiums about the era. Moreover, studies of antiphony in African American oral and literary discourses fail to credit Talley's pioneering work. Two anthologies on the subject, Call & Response (1998) and Call and Response (2011), and a study of the form in African American fiction, Call-and-Response in Twentieth-Century Black Fiction (1988, 2001), fail to acknowledge Talley's \"Study.\" It is unmentioned in works on black poetics and prosody.2 Indeed, Talley's book has been so thoroughly ignored that it is currently listed on the Forgotten Books website.3 Although this listing does not necessarily imply scholarly neglect, it is useful to note how major scholarly bibliographies, for example the MLA Bibliography, also demonstrate the range of scholarship that fails to acknowledge or discuss Talley.4 The neglect of this central text in the black oral and literary traditions deserves examination.

[Thomas Talley], retired and living in New York City, said that early church sources put the date of [JESUS]' crucifixion on March 25. He found an anonymous writing of the 4th century, which set forth the belief that \"Our Lord was conceived on the same date that he was crucified.\" The writing had been quoted by other early Christian leaders, such as St. John Chrysostom (374-407). According to Talley, the belief that the conception and crucifixion occurred on the same day was in keeping with the Jewish tradition that the Hebrew patriarchs were born on the same date that they died.

The South Sudanese referendum will not settle the issue of control over all of southern Sudan. Numerous flashpoints remain. Most importantly, the disposition of the town of Abyei remains undetermined. Abyei is where most of Sudan's oil deposits are located. Unlike the rest of the south, its population is a mix of Arabs and Africans and its residents are split over the issue of separation from Khartoum. If there is war after independence, Abyei will likely be its cause. Arab leaders as diverse as Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi and Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal have decried South Sudan's independence. Gaddafi warned that southern secession would be the beginning of a \"contagious disease.\" As for Israel, in light of its failure to convince the Arabs to be appeased by its concessions and the Arabs' failure to overrun the Jewish state, since 1973 Europe has collaborated with the Arabs in recasting reality to suit the aims of Arab imperialism. Whereas Israel was established and repeatedly defended by the Jewish national liberation movement against the wishes of Arab imperialists, with European assistance, the Arabs have inverted history. The current Arab-European claim is that the Arab imperialist war against Israel is a Jewish imperialist war against Arabs.

Fort Lee Fire and Emergency Services transported [Thomas Talley] to John Randolph Medical Center in Hopewell with minor injuries, and the other driver was walking around soon after the accident. \"Fortunately, no one was seriously injured, that's the big thing,\" [Ed Frankenstein] said. \"Cars can be repaired.\"

  A memorial service will be held at Christ Episcopal Church in Rochester, New York on January 25, 2014 at 11 a.m. Donations in Tom's memory can be made to Christ Episcopal Church Schola Cantorum, 141 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14604 or The Highland Foundation, Highland Hospital, 1000 South Avenue, 14620.

Playwright Lanford Wilson, whose trilogy about the Talley family of Lebanon, Mo., has earned him a Pulitzer and won scads of theatrical accolades for Lanford productions and performers, may expand his three-play package to a fourth, and perhaps a fifth, stage production. \"Talley's Folly,\" incidentally, a one-act, 94-minute play, may be the springboard for the fourth Talley piece, according to Lanford associates and colleagues. It will spotlight Whistler Talley, black sheep of the older clansmen, who built the riverside boathouse which became known as \"Talley's Folly,\" and which gave the first Talley play its name. \"Fifth\" was the second in the trilogy and \"A Tale Told\" the last. Reports are that Barnard (\"Da\") Hughes, a Circle Rep member, will play Whistler, who trilled classical music while tramping through Lebanon's woods and glens in the WWII years. Lanford said that at one time he considered naming the trilogy \"War in Lebanon,\" perhaps because of the effect on the Talley family by WWII, Korea and Vietnam.

In 1964, [Bishop Thomas E. Talley] became pastor of another church, Twine's Memorial Holy Temple, in Portsmouth. When asked how her husband juggled ministering at both churches, Mrs. Talley replied, \"It's a miracle how it was done.\" Actually, Bishop Talley would preach at Gospel Light on the second and fourth Sundays of the month and then would be at Twine's Memorial on the first and third Sundays. Associate ministers would cover the Sundays when he was at the opposite church. Mr. [Albert Augson Sr.] first met Bishop Talley in 1945 when they both attended Holy Temple Church in Norfolk. At the time, Bishop Talley was teaching the church's Bible class and Sunday school.