For Emmitt Till, Medgar Evers, Fred Shuttlesworth, the Little Rock Nine, the North Carolina A&T student sit-in at Woolworths, James Meredith, the families of Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Addie Mae Collins, James E. Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner; God has heard your prayers. For everyone who endured the back of the [...]
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” (Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) It doesn’t matter how positive we are in our faith walk or how careful we are in seeking truth, we will experience grief, suffering, pain, fear, and anxiety, for they are part of life. Disappointment is the price we [...]
Education is a life-long journey. Since its inception, the mantra of the United Negro College Fund has been “A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste.” Gone are the days when a high school diploma is the minimum entry-level requirement to begin a well-paying career. Whether you are seeking a career in services industries, the [...]
What I have come to realize after being divorced for many years, is my ex-husband and I did not share the same core values. For him, the ideal marriage was keeping a wife “barefoot and pregnant;” to use an old phrase. During our relationship before we were married this deeply embedded ideal, passed down from [...]
