Thirteen- year old Jessica, avid collector of black female dolls, received a big surprise from her father.  He gave Jessica her first male doll Buckwheat.  Jessica negative response led her father to teach her a brief history lesson about picanniny.     

      “Jessica, let me give you a little history lesson.”  Her father expounded as if he was a history professor.  “There was once a television show called Our Gang originated by Hal Roach, which was also known as Little Rascals.  It ran...

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Courage is not having strength to go on---It is going on when you don't have the strength.
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Our  character is measured by what we do when no one is looking.

This is a reminder to all of us.
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It is time to turn off the Smart Phones, Blue Tooth, Ipod, Email, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube etc.

It is time that we have "Courageous Conversations" face to face.



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