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Celerbrate Dr. King's Birthday

Celebrating Dr. King’s Birthday: Inspiring Words and a Game Board

This year for Dr. King's Birthday, I want to share two things with you. A speech, and a Jeopardy game board.  The speech is "Give Us the Ballot".  I listen to it every election year and I'll share a quote to show you why I listen to it. Over 30...

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Happy New Year – Stepping into 2024

Happy New Year!   I think I have been making New Year’s Resolutions for over 30 years. On New Year’s Day, I would write down everything I hoped to do, from finding a guy, to cruising through Europe, to buying a house, to publishing my stories, to losing 100 lbs.  At...

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Ujamaa is Cooperative Economics

Ujamaa: Cooperative Economics and the Key to Thriving Black Communities

Every day of Kwanzaa provides deep meaning, an opportunity to explore an aspect of our essence  that is necessary for us to thrive as individuals and a community. But for some reason, Ujamaa is my favorite. I think that cooperative economics, the start, the growth, and the support of...

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Inmates with Dementia need Special Care

Inmates with Dementia: The Unseen Impact of Aging Behind Bars

In 2024, the last of the Baby Boomers, including myself, will turn 60. As the American population of baby boomers becomes geriatric, we also have an aging population in our prisons. 15% of American prisoners are above 55 and 32% of those elderly prisoners are black men. They may...

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Is Nuclear Energy Clean Energy?

When I was 10 years old, I wanted to be a nuclear physicist. I wanted to solve the mysteries of nuclear fusion- the essence of our sun’s amazing heating power - colliding and combining hydrogen atoms to form helium and creating power plants that released enough energy to power...

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Have You Checked Your Blood Pressure Lately? Don’t Let High BP Sneak Up On You

While I was happily wasting some time playing Mahjong on the computer an "ad" came up that I couldn’t ignore. The first time it flashed in front of me, I saw the profile of a handsome young man and the words "High Blood Pressure". I made sure to read...

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Our society needs to come together to prevent gun violence.

Preventing Gun Violence: It Takes a Bipartisan Effort

I don’t like guns. I don’t like the speed with which they can kill from a distance. I don’t like the fact that they can spray a room with bullets in a matter of seconds. I don’t like how quickly their presence can escalate an argument leading to a...

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