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Jesus said, “But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words, you will be condemned” (Matthew 12:36–37) Watch President Obama’s Mandela Day speech Watch Oprah’s Golden Globes speech Watch President Obama’s farewell […]
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Do you like peaches? There are health benefit to eating the delicious, fuzzy fruit (If you’re like me, you peel them first). And of course, this is peach cobbler season! They have lots of vitamin C. They have beta-carotene which is good for your eyes. They have fiber, which helps control your weight and appetite. […]
From Cook’s Vegetables Illustrated cookbook. Sweet potatoes are emphatically not the same vegetable as yams, which can grow to be 5 feet long. This may come as a surprise, but sweet potatoes are not related to potatoes, either. They are actually members of the morning glory family, whereas potatoes belong to the nightshade family. But they’re […]
Reduce Cancer Risk… Losing weight if you are over weight Use sunscreen (even if you have dark skin!) Eat more fruits and vegetables Cut back on sugar (soft drinks and juice, anyone?) Stop smoking Read more ways HERE.
Your cellphone Remote controls Doorknobs Computer keyboards Kitchen sponges and dishcloths Purses (especially if you sit them on the floor) Pet food bowls and toys Children’s toys
Eat these foods to improve your cholesterol (yum) olive oil and olives beans avocados strawberries, blueberries, blackberries nuts like walnuts, almonds whole grains tuna, salmon and other oily fish apples, pears
Eating the Same Thing Every Week? Want to Try Something Different? Try eggplant! Eggplant isn’t a vegetable you automatically think of when you’re making dinner. The texture can be strange and mushy, and it soaks up all the oil you can put on it! My favorite way to have eggplant is eggplant parmesan. If you […]
Overlooked No More: Georgia Gilmore, Who Fed and Funded the Montgomery Bus Boycott By Klancy Miller It took all of Georgia Gilmore’s willpower not to explode at the driver of the crowded bus in Montgomery, Ala., one Friday afternoon in October 1955. She had just boarded and dropped her fare into the cash box when he shouted […]
“Being dragged off that bus was worth it just to see Barack Obama become president,” said Claudette Colvin, who was arrested before Rosa Parks was arrested for keeping her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama. Claudette Colvin broke ground nearly 10 months before Rosa Parks. In March 1955, Colvin, then just 15 years old, was arrested for violating an […]
The first African woman Nobel Peace Prize winner Kenyan environmental and political activist Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the United States.
Colson Whitehead (11/6/1969) is an American novelist. He is the author of seven novels, including his debut work, The Intuitionist, and The Underground Railroad (2016), for which he won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His most recent novel is The Nickel Boys. Michael S. Jackson writes, “The Nickel Boys follows two boys struggling through […]
America’s Forgotten Mass Imprisonment of Women Believed to Be Sexually Immoral Under the ‘American Plan,’ women could be detained for sitting in a restaurant alone, changing jobs—or, often, for no reason at all. SCOTT W. STERN For much of the 20th century in America, a little-known but widespread government program locked people up without trials […]
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Offers New Online Database of Court Cases of Enslaved People Seeking Their Freedom by goodblacknews According to the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln recently debuted an online database of more than 500 court cases in which enslaved persons had sued […]