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Dwight Fletcher | Building good friendships

We started 2021 by discussing the importance of friendships. This week, we will learn how to build healthy friendships. 1. EVALUATE Who we spend time with affects who we become. “Don’t hang out with angry people; don’t keep company with hotheads...

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Martin Luther King, Jr. was the charismatic leader of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. Chosen to lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott at its genesis in 1955, the year-long nonviolent struggle brought King under the scrutiny of a wary and divided nation. However, his

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(1906) W.E.B. DuBois, “Men of Niagara”

In 1906, one year after the Niagara Movement was founded, it held its second annual meeting at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. W.E.B. Du Bois, a founding member and its titular leader, gave the address below to the assembled civil rights

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She got the ring and he said, ‘I gotta go, the Bama game is about to come on’

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In 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. was in Miami when he had a meeting with film producer Abby Mann, who was contemplating a movie biography about King. Mann asked the 37-year-old minister how the movie should end. King replied, It ends with me getting

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‘My Daddy Changed the World’ | Afro

I believe that Floyd, in his death, became that catalyst, the “David” that I had prayed for, the one who would defeat the giant “Goliath,” the one who would change our history and perhaps change our

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Child, two adults shot in August Town home invasion

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(1851) Sojourner Truth “Ar'nt I a Woman?”

Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883) was arguably the most famous of the 19th Century black women orators. Born into slavery in New York and freed in 1827 under the state’s gradual emancipation law, she dedicated her life to abolition and equal rights for women and men. Two versions of her most noted

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PHOTOS: Joyful Juneteenth marchers in D.C. confound predictions of violence

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(1919) William Pickens, “The Kind of Democracy the Negro Expects”

William Pickens was born in 1881, the year Tuskegee Institute was founded. By the time of Booker T. Washington’s death in 1915, Pickens at age 35 had already become a major spokesperson on the direction of black education in the United States. Born in South Carolina but educated in

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Can Joe Biden Win? The Jury is Out

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(1967) Martin Luther King, Jr., “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence”

On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King gave his first major public address on the War in Vietnam at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City. In that address he articulated his reasons for his opposition to the

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Where the Black Church Is in the Black Lives Matter Movement – Free Press of Jacksonville

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(1787) Jupiter Hammon, “An Address to the Negroes in the State of New York,"

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Meet the clergy who won’t stop in-person preaching during COVID-19 | Afro

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Liberia: Winners' Chapel Church Strengthens Liberia's Efforts to Fight Coronavirus

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