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May.04.2013
I participated in the College Board conference Dream Deferred: The Future of African American Education.This was a powerful, awesome, and unbelievable conference. Educators, students and others discussed, brainstormed, engaged, networked, and collaborated. The...
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Jan.10.2013
Lance Armstrong's confession was there all along, if you knew where and how to look. As a result, I suggested we all consider forgiving Armstrong for his past transgressions and try to move on with what cycling will become in the wake of the Lance Armstrong era, which occupied our...
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May.17.2012
The Black Cochin Jewish population has a high percentage of Rh-negative blood but the Rh-negative blood type is uncommon in the Black population in general, which is exactly the same interesting phenomenon as with the Oriental Jews of Israel who have a high percentage of Rh-negative blood, where...
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May.20.2011
A few years ago, I spoke at a conference of the African American Student Union, Harvard University. During the question and answer session a young man asked: "Why would someone with a Harvard MBA choose to go into the janitorial business instead of a more sophisticated profession?...
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May.14.2011
After the untimely death of plus model Mia Amber Davis earlier this week, we were asked by AOL/BlackVoices via RedRoom, to blog on the subject of body image and black women. Having been plus size models in the 80’s, when the biz was in its infancy, and always prime for an opportunity to add...
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Feb.28.2011
Gracias Archelina Sportsman Morandus, my great-grandmother, was the reason I wrote a vampire novel. Born in 1883 to an Ioway Indian horse trainer and an African-American New Englander, Gracias, moved with her mother back east after her father died.
There, still a child, Gracias was married off to a...
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Jul.23.2010
Pressure. Stress. Pressure. Stress.
I remember what it was like to be 10 years old on a summer day. Wake up. Eat breakfast. Get dressed. Go outside and play until lunch. After lunch go outside and play until dinner. After dinner rinse and repeat the next day. So went the days of summer....
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Jul.23.2010
I haven't had a vacation in years. Vacations require time and money and I have neither. I am the queen of the "stay-cation". I can find free and inexpensive activities in town to keep our family stimulated without breaking the bank. However, there is something uniquely gratifying about...
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Apr.06.2010
When I read this news, it made me cry.
"About 15,000 African slaves and their descendants were once unceremoniously buried under what is today Manhattan— and forgotten.
On Saturday, a new visitor center opened near the rediscovered cemetery from the 17th and 18th centuries to celebrate...
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Nov.30.2008
As we clear away the Thanksgiving dishes, the holiday season in the U.S. begins in earnest. Over the next few weeks, the nation will indulge in what is essentially the biggest shopping spree of the year. Oh, yeah. We do manage to squeeze in some religious holidays as well.
Christians celebrate the...
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