Ahhh, the joys of being a kid. This may be familiar to few, but I grew up on the Letter People. Today, my lil bro sent me a youtube clip of the Letter People, which took me back to my childhood. My sister, my brother, and I would go through the whole crate of Letter People tapes that my mom bought for us, and we picked out our favorite ones. Although the letter “C” was supposed to be my favorite, [...]

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“Who is my judge?” “God is my judge.” “Why is God your judge?” “He decides whether I win or lose.” “And who are your opponents?” “I have no opponents … merely dissenting voices to the truth I speak.”

I just watched Great Debaters tonight, and fell in love with that movie. I was particularly impressed with the oratory skills of the young woman in the film. Me, being a female Howard Law School student, could bare [...]

2 Timothy 3:1-5 – “But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.”

I know by now, may of you get the point. [...]

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She departed with a dream and returned home a record-breaker.

Inspired by the Tuskeegee Airmen, 15-year-old Kimberly Anyadike flew a single-engine Cessna cross-country from her hometown of Compton, Calif., to Newport News, Va.

Anyadike is thought to be the youngest African American female pilot to complete the journey, which took 13 days. She arrived home in Los Angeles on Saturday, July 11.

Anyadike learned to fly at age 12 through the Compton-based Tomorrow’s Aeronautical Museum, which offers aviation lessons in an after-school program [...]

Below is a short bio of the “Black Mozart” Chevalier de Saint-George, a virtuoso on the violin, a composer, and a fencer. He was born to an African slave and a white French man. He rose to prominence despite the social ill of racism (which still exists), the French Revolution, and the Haitian Revolt.

Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-George, was born on Christmas day, 1745, on the French-Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. His mother was a young Senegalese slave of [...]