“How long? Not long. Martin and Malcolm knew they didn’t have much time. In Benjamin Mays’ famous poem he illuminates how time is fleeting: ’60 seconds in a minute, a lifetime depends on it.’ In the average lifespan of 70 years, people will spend 23 years sleeping, 16 years working, 8 years watching television, 6 […]
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The Global Threat Of Malcolm X
“Malcolm was courted by high officials…He met Heads of States, and top world leaders. Malcolm was treated as a Statesman and important leader. The Arab Islamic leaders embraced him enthusiastically. The very people who had vast resources of oil were giving Malcolm X special attention, and police escorts. The implications of all this, with a […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Excerpt Of The Week: Part 2, “The Spirituality of Success” By: Vincent Roazzi
“Personal energy limitations or personal energy use not only refers to our physical energy, but also applies to our mental and spiritual energy. Thomas Edison was once ridiculed for not being able to remember his own phone number. His reply was why should he clutter his mind with facts that could be easily accessed in […]
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“There are no gurus, genies, or fairy godmothers that can touch you with a wand and change your life. There is no magic that I, or anyone else, can perform that will give you the success you desire. The Wizard of Oz is a metaphor for those of us ‘searching’ for success. Like Dorothy, we […]
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“She was Queen and General of Angola. She was a military genius. Her favorite strategies were surprise attacks and infiltrating enemy ranks. The Portuguese were trying to control Angola. They were effectively using the theory of divide and conquer and were pitting Africans against Africans. Queen Nzingha took advantage of this and literally had more […]
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“For a people to vote and pay taxes for weapons that are going to destroy their very lives and the future of their people, they have to be out of their minds. For physicists to build weapons that would end their lives and the lives of their children, they have to be out of their […]
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“The Afrikan American community cannot maximize its existence and quality of life unless and until it educates its parents, caregivers, and those who school its children, along lines appropriate to optimizing their mental and physical potential as well as their Afrikan consciousness, identity and common humanity. A significant part of the social chaos so typical […]
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I came across a book excerpt (included below), that states that the “Wheel of Fortune” was once the name of a slave ship. I wonder if the creators of the long-running game show of the same name are aware of this. The book excerpt is as follows: “Needing funds for his business, Nicholas Brown fitted […]
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“The two principal New York penny papers of the 1830s, The Sun and The Herald, found readers among artisans and other workers, while The Herald also drew businessmen. The did not show the same interest, however, in broadening their audience across racial lines; indeed, it was The Sun’s refusal to publish a letter from a […]
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“…Perhaps Baltimore’s Kennedy Krieger Institute (KKI) best exemplified the dubious protection of parental consent, which it was careful to elicit when it began its “Repair and Maintenance Study” in the mid-1990s. Researchers approached black families in 108 units of decrepit housing encrusted with crumbling, peeling lead paint. Lead paint is a notorious cause of acute […]
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