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The One Percent has everything you do not. A fancy house in a posh place. Designer clothing, fast cars. Friends in high places that know how...
Well into his twenties, Joe Wallace was asked to sit with his "Granddaddy Joe" while Wallace's mother and grandmother ran errands. His grandfather was once a...
Once was a time when you rarely saw a Black face in entertainment unless you were specifically looking for one — which is why these great...
You’ll do better next time. You’re sorry, deeply sorry, sincere in your apology, and it won’t happen again. You had a chance to think about your...
The son of Haitian immigrants, Alex Toussaint grew up in a stable, middle-class household with both parents involved in his upbringing and with education at the...
Ten years after the launching of the ‘infamous’ The Crisis magazine, W.E.B. Du Bois, Augustus Granville Dill and Jessie Redmon Fauset had another idea: they called...
You will never settle. And why should you? If it's not right, you make it right. If it can be better, well, then get at it....
One drop. That's all they said it took to determine someone’s race. Just one drop, the tiniest of amounts, and everything changed: no access, no rights,...
The last two apps you downloaded were for diets. Ugh. Friends say that you're perfect but you'd like to lose your flabby arms, your thick thighs,...
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It’s been more than a century since the Tulsa Race Massacre, and it still seems like there’s much to learn about it. in “Requiem for the...
In the early spring of 2011, while taking a rest from a cold bike ride, David Goodrich wandered into a museum. There, he was handed a...
Author Michelle Obama is a true storyteller, and she uses a “show, not tell” method of writing. Readers are lulled into an entertaining story of life...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — The truth is, though, summer’s halfway over and you’ve done everything you wanted to do so now you’re (do you dare say it?) bored....
Your first place all your own needs to be ah-mazing. Big-screen TV for gaming. Fridge for snacks and drinks. Sofa for kicking back, a few good...
You wanted it. And you wanted it very much. But, ah, well, you didn’t get it. You worked and you begged and maybe you even saved...
By Terri Schlichenmeyer, The Bookworm Sez If you can’t say something nice… Sometimes, it’s hard to say nothing at all. There are times when...
By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Bookworm Sez Somebody passed you a plate of cookies. It was the holidays so, of course, you had to take one....
Your favorite toy came apart yesterday. That’s okay, though; it snapped right back together. It’s made to come apart, in fact; it’s one of those...
The fix won’t be quick. It never is. There’s no magic wand to change the things that have been on your mind lately: social issues,...
Charges dropped. You were surprised, but not surprised. Hopeful that it might be different, but only barely. You know that these days, the...
Your family is filled with people to whom you look up. There’s Grandpa, who served in the war. Grandma, who raised many children with little...
Some days, it seems as though you have superpowers. That must be the explanation for being unseen. That’s why there are days when nobody looks...
Your last family reunion was a big one. It was fun, too, and eye opening. You hadn’t really stopped to think about how many...