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
“Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes under, your ego goes with it.” -Colin Powell Tweet
Read the rest of this entry »Definitions Better Than Webster’s: Learning
LEARNING: “Learning refers to a short-, intermediate-, or relatively long-term change in perception, ways of integrating and organizing information, of communicating, expressing and applying processed information in the world by both verbal and nonverbal means that occur as the result of experience, imitation, deliberate and/or repeated practice, and the inferential construction of concepts, procedures and […]
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On this day in 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first African-American Supreme Court Justice. Tweet
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“Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn’t can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.” -Lucy Maude Montgomery Tweet
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Tubman in 1887 (far left), with her husband Davis (seated, with cane), their adopted daughter Gertie (beside Tubman), Lee Cheney, John “Pop” Alexander, Walter Green, Blind “Aunty” Sarah Parker, and great-niece, Dora Stewart at Tubman’s home in Auburn, New York. Tweet
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The first African-American airplane company was formed in 1911. The company was started in New York City at the then West 53rd Street Hotel Macco. The board members included: Louis A. Leavelle, C.W. Chappelle, Benjamin F. Thomas, Lee A. Pollard, Harrison M. Steward, John Bryant, and Dr. V.T. Thomas. The company was started with $10,000 […]
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“Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.” -Charles Richards Tweet
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