"Tutitive Dare & Tactical Drive To Forge Ahead"
English is filled with words that look alike or sound alike (or both), but mean very different things — so it’s easy to get confused and use the wrong word at the wrong moment. As “word nerds” and podcast hosts of NPR’s “You’re Saying it Wrong,” we’re constantly on the lookout for these mistakes. And Read More…
Tulsa Massacre, aired on HBO’S Watchmen, “Sunday night” was something I thought I’d never see on television: the depiction of a dark day in American history that not many know about—the Tulsa massacre. Late in the afternoon of May 30, 1921, Dick Rowland needed to use the bathroom. A 19-year-old black shoe-shiner working in segregated Oklahoma, Read More…
Seven-year-old Viola Fletcher was awakened by her parents 100 years ago today and told they had to leave home. Angry, gun-toting white mobs had set out under the cover of nightfall in her hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma, to kill Black people and destroy Black America’s economic mecca. Now 107, Fletcher recalls the night that forever changed Read More…
Dionne Perry, Author of Credit-Lit 101 for teens gives an excellent view of why adults today often agonize over their financial situation and how it is negatively impacting their lives. How did they get there? How did their credit score plummet and how do they climb out of the hole they have dug for themselves? Read More…
Vivian Cunningham, who is a 78-year old great-grandmother of three, has earned her undergraduate degree in liberal studies at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. “If I could have done cartwheels across the stage, I would have,” she told Today. Cunningham, who is a single mother of 2, grandmother of 3, and great-grandmother of 3, spent 6 Read More…
by Mae Johnson Love the Skin You Are In There will be those who love you and those who do not care for you. There will be those who make you feel good about yourself and those who will tear you down. This article is about Choosing your acquaintances carefully and learning to feel comfortable Read More…
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