PLEASE PASS THIS ON! (EACH ONE TEACH ONE OR TWO!) THIS IS PHASE ONE ON HOW WE CAN HELP TO STRENGTHEN & EMPOWER OUR COMMUNITY: The 2008 not guilty verdict in the Sean Bell case evoked outrage, emotion, and debate. It is not an anomaly that the police officers involved in the Sean Bell slaying […]
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Quote Of The Day
“I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.” -Maya Angelou Tweet
Read the rest of this entry »Definitions Better Than Webster’s: Interrogation
Interrogation: “The goal of any interrogation, by definition, is to elicit a confession from a guilty party, not to investigate the truth of a denial. The common tactics used to gain confessions are based on the idea that only guilty people are interrogated in the first place…Once they decide they are speaking with a guilty […]
Read the rest of this entry »Black History Fact Of The Day: The Thermostat Control
On February 23, 1960, Frederick M. Jones received a patent for his invention of the thermostat control. Tweet
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“It is forbidden to kill. Therefore, all murderers are punished, unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” -Voltaire Tweet
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R.I.P. Yusef Hawkins (3/19/73-8/23/89) Tweet
Read the rest of this entry »Black History Fact Of The Day: Shampoo Headrest
On October 11, 1898, Charles Bailiff received a patent for his invention of the shampoo headrest. Tweet
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“Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.” -Maya Angelou Tweet
Read the rest of this entry »Definitions Better Than Webster’s: Self-Sabotage
SELF-SABOTAGE: “Self-sabotage takes many forms, such as quitting school, taking low-paying jobs, choosing a spouse who abuses you physically or verbally, spending more than you make, committing slow suicide with tobacco, alcohol, or other drugs, getting involved in crime, working yourself to illness or death, self-starvation, self-inflicting wounds, running away, dropping out, or engaging in […]
Read the rest of this entry »Black History Fact Of The Day: Henry Boyd
“…Henry Boyd. After buying himself in Kentucky, he went to Cincinnati to start life as a free man. There he encountered so much prejudice against Negro labor that he could not find employment at his trade of cabinet-making. A new thought came to him, however, and in this way he solved his own problem. Boyd […]
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