“‘What for?’ This is the question that you must learn to ask in connection with everything. What is the purpose? Whatever it is, it will direct your efforts automatically. When you make a decision of purpose, then, you have made a decision about your future effort; a decision that will remain in effect unless you […]
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Book Excerpt Of The Week: Part 1- “Gifts From A Course In Miracles”
“What you must recognize is that when you do not share a thought system, you are weakening it. Those who believe in it therefore perceive this as an attack on them. This is because everyone identifies himself with his thought system, and every thought system centers on what you believe you are.” -From, “Gifts From […]
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Charlie Wiggins was the first African-American to win a major racecar competition in America. He also built his own race car. Tweet
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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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“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” -C.S. Lewis Tweet
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The modern technological byproduct of “electronic smog” is said to be detrimental to certain forms of nature. Man-made electrical fields, that are created via wi-fi, cellphones, and power lines, are increasingly becoming denser as more people become converts to mobile technology. According to The Independent, “Dr Ulrich Warnke, who has been researching the effects of […]
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James “Cool Papa” Bell was a player in the Negro Leagues. He was arguably considered, “the fastest player ever to play baseball.” He also became a coach and taught players, including Jackie Robinson. Tweet
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“One sure measure of a society’s relative health is its suicide rate. If a society produces large numbers of people who destroy themselves, that society cannot be described as successful under any reasonable definition of the term. Well-adjusted people, people who culturally know, ever so unobtrusively, how to simple be don’t kill themselves.” -Randall Robinson […]
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George Gibbs Jr. was the first African-American to explore the South Pole. Mr. Gibbs also started his own employment agency and organized the Rochester, Minnesota chapter of the NAACP. Tweet
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“The suffocating preoccupation with the acquisition of fame and fortune has directed untold numbers of helpless unreflective unfortunates to search down the wrong streets for psychic sustenance, resulting in a rabid competition of the lost between the unhappy failures and the unhappy successes, the former comparing its troubled insides to the latter’s well-varnished outsides.” -Randall […]
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