This morning I heard a news headline from October about a young student and football player who was killed in New York by a white officer. The officer shot rounds into his car, fatally injuring him and injuring his passenger, another young, Black man. According to eyewitnesses, the attack was not as officers have reported…
Yesterday I saw a snippet of Oprah where she revisited a conversation with former chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools, Michelle Rhee, broadcast during the promotion for documentary, Waiting for Superman. Rhee was back to announce her decision to fight for the nation’s children by creating Students First. Now, as a DC resident,…
With the rise in urban gardening and, unfortunately, childhood obesity, there couldn’t be a better time for this book! Inspired by the First Family’s garden, six-year-old twins, Annie and Veda, have caught the gardening bug! Their experiences are chronicled by their mom in their book, We Grew It, Let’s Eat It!, as well as recipes for their homegrown…
Prostitute. Sex slave. Child sex trafficking. Now be honest. You had a different reaction to the first one than you did the second two. Why do we have such a visceral reaction to prostitutes? Do they have nothing in common with the latter two epidemics? These faceless prostitutes are…WOMEN…GIRLS… who are being beaten, raped and dehumanized.…