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God is Hope

March 8, 2023 Jacquie Abram, International Best-Selling & Award-Winning Author

I never knew the cost of being Black in corporate America. The price I would pay with my dignity and fundamental rights as a human being just to have a job that wasn’t in a low-income sector. A job that … Continue reading God is Hope

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Finding Hope in Despair By Keri Leigh Merritt & Yohuru Williams

January 9, 2023 Kevin Robinson

As Franklin Delano Roosevelt observed about the people who lived through the Great Depression, “Thisgeneration of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.” The truth is, given the historical events of thepast several years, we now do, too. The long shadow … Continue reading Finding Hope in Despair By Keri Leigh Merritt & Yohuru Williams

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Covered by the Blood; Spiritual Determinants of Health vs The Social Detriment to Health

September 8, 2022 Fred Smith

The Prince of Third Ward Holman Street Baptist Church (HSBC) is located in the Historic Third Ward of Houston Texas. It is the church where I experienced a spiritual awakening and received my call to the Ministry over 40 years … Continue reading Covered by the Blood; Spiritual Determinants of Health vs The Social Detriment to Health

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Precious Lives:

September 8, 2022 lcolondelay

The phrase that sounds like what all Americans should have heard in the first place when the cry came as a keening from the Black community. Continue reading Precious Lives:

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Mike Bites Strange Fruit

May 9, 2022 Carl McRoy

By Carl McRoy Legendary boxing champ, “Iron” Mike Tyson, recently launched a new brand of snacks. “Mike Bites” are earlobe-shaped marijuana edibles with a bite missing from the ear –a painfully obvious reference to when he bit Evander Holyfield’s ear … Continue reading Mike Bites Strange Fruit

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LINGUISTIC REVOLUTION: the creative democratization of definitions

February 8, 2022February 8, 2022 Carl McRoy

Have you ever wondered why there’s virtually no media coverage of the economic concerns of the Black Working Class? Or the political concerns of Black Evangelicals? Where’s the focus groups and panel discussions giving vent to the concerns of Black … Continue reading LINGUISTIC REVOLUTION: the creative democratization of definitions

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Colors: I Know A Change Is Gonna Come.

November 8, 2021 Kevin Robinson

Otis Redding sang: “It’s been a long, long time coming But I know, but I know a change is gonna come.” The bursting of fall color symbolizes past times’ forward thrust toward racial equity albeit Reconstruction, the rising of Tulsa’s … Continue reading Colors: I Know A Change Is Gonna Come.

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The 3-Fold Miseducation of the Census

November 8, 2021 Carl McRoy

Dr. Carter G. Woodson, founder of Negro History Week, wrote a masterpiece that is amazingly relevant today, The Miseducation of the Negro. The main thread running through the book is that much of our formal educational system often miseducates us … Continue reading The 3-Fold Miseducation of the Census

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Three-Fifths of a Person. 100% of the Burden

April 5, 2021May 8, 2021 biracialcoach

For those who may not know, before we had the first mixed race President of the United States (a fact that can and should be argued), the first Black congresswoman or astronaut, we had the Three Fifths Compromise. Often misinterpreted … Continue reading Three-Fifths of a Person. 100% of the Burden

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