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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The Power Of The Ever-Changing Brain
“The brain is remarkably adaptive. Like a muscle that gets stronger with use, the brain changes itself when you struggle to master a new challenge. In fact, there’s never a time in life when the brain is completely ‘fixed.’ Instead, all our lives, our neurons retain the potential to grow new connections with one another […]
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“South Carolina’s slave-plantation owners had known nothing about how to grow and irrigate rice. That knowledge was brought to the low country by Africans stolen from Sierra Leone by the Royal African Company of England. As the slaves produced the rice that made the plantation owners rich, their glistening backs bore the branded acronym of […]
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“We need to be supportive of each other…There are enough barriers in our way as it is. The racism and segregation today is not the in-you-face WHITES ONLY sign on the water fountain, or the front door marked NO NI**ERS on a restaurant wall or hotel. It is every bit as insidious but it is […]
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“Personality traits that we traditionally associate with stagnation, inefficiency, failure, and despondency are nothing more than brainblocks: The products of glitches and the consequences of inefficient use of our brains. Brainblocks are the habits of feeling, thinking, and doing created by our brains that block our pursuit of success. And only our brains, or how […]
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“Everything I have done is an extension of my feelings about my own people. I feel some way I’ve become tide up with this whole problem of human freedom. I have no end to my artistic horizon.”-Paul Robeson Tweet
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“The system’s unfair. If you don’t have bucks, you’re out of luck. Simple as that. None of this plea bargaining is law. When I first started out on Wall Street, we were all thrown pro bono cases now and then, and we did a damn good job with them! It was a nice change-up from […]
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“The way people think will determine how they act.” -Neely Fuller Jr. Tweet
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