“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
Definitions Better Than Webster’s: Self-Sabotage
Written By: Elsie Law
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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 behaviors that undermine your health, success, or relationships…We end self-sabotage only by taking responsibility for the choices and actions that created it…
You may not stretch for your goals because you don’t feel deserving of achieving them. Or you may stir up problems around you because you’re used to keeping life a little aggravating- because you don’t cope well with smooth sailing. Stay vigilant to be sure you are not sabotaging your efforts to achieve your goal because you aren’t yet certain that you deserve to do so.” -From, “Everyday Enlightenment” By: Dan Millman
Black History Fact Of The Day: Henry Boyd
Written By: Elsie Law
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Jul•
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“…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 became convinced that people had been sleeping long enough on straw ticks and wooden slats, and he invented the corded bed, the most comfortable bed prior to the use of springs which brought still more ease. Boyd’s corded bed became popular throughout the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys and he built up a profitable trade.” From, “The Mis-Education Of The Negro” By: Carter G. Woodson
Quote Of The Day
Written By: Elsie Law
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Jul•
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“The real servant of the people must live among them, think with them, feel for them, and die for them.” -Carter G. Woodson
Police Terrorism: California Highway Patrol Officer Attacks & Pummels A Woman
Written By: Elsie Law
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Jul•
07•14
In the video below, a California highway patrol officer is seen violently attacking a defenseless woman.
SIDEBAR: Why is this news report named, “Freeway Takedown.”
Black History Fact Of The Day: The Curtain Rod
Written By: Elsie Law
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Jul•
07•14
On November 30, 1889, S. R. Scratton received a patent for the curtain rod.
Quote Of The Day
Written By: Elsie Law
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Jul•
07•14
“History does not show that any race, especially a minority group, has ever solved an important problem by relying altogether on one thing, certainly not by parking its political strength on the side of the fence because of empty promises.” -Carter G. Woodson
Can Curry Help Cure Cancer? (Throwback Post 11/2/09)
Written By: Elsie Law
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Jul•
03•14
A team of British scientists claim that their experiments have shown that curry spice can kill off cancer cells.
According to The BBC, a team of scientists “found that curcumin (an extract found in the bright yellow curry spice, tumeric) started to kill cancer cells [with]in 24 hours [of contact]…The cells also began to digest themselves after the curcumin triggered lethal cell death signals.”
Curcumin is also being tested as a cure for dementia and arthritis.
Black History Fact Of The Day: James Forman & Lorraine Hansberry
Written By: Elsie Law
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Jul•
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James Forman and Lorraine Hansberry attended the same high school, Englewood High School in Chicago. In his autobiography, James Forman discusses how he would often engage in school debates that Lorraine Hansberry also participated in.
He recounts: “Every Friday in division [a class where the sophomores and juniors were combined for twenty minutes a day], we discussed some current topic: The Un, capital punishment, the Fair Employment Practices Commission, an antilynching bill. I remember that Lorraine Hansberry, the playwright, who was one grade behind me, and I sometimes found ourselves on the same side and sometimes on opposite sides.”
Quote Of The Day
Written By: Elsie Law
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Jul•
03•14
“Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.” -Author Unknown
