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  • A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste

    Did UNCF sell out? I say, Hell no!!!! Koch Industries, a conservative company with some albeit dispicable views, has pledged $25 million to UNCF for scholarships. UNCF has been getting heat since the announcement. I wonder how many of those who object to the endowment are donors… According to UNCF, nine out of 10 qualified…

  • DC Principal Shares His Pride

    Wilson High School Principal, Pete Cahill, “came out” to students at the school’s Second Annual Pride Day in Northwest DC today. After remaining silent last year, I couldn’t tell them to be themselves- you are safe…I had to walk the walk. Shocked students yelled and cheered. DC Mayor Gray told the students to applaud his…

  • Real Talk: Gun Violence Is a Public Health Issue

    Today MomsRising visited Senate Offices on the Hill with over 220,000 petition signatures, urging for gun violence to be deemed a public health issue. Why not?!? Nothing else has worked. Not a classroom full of dead kindergarteners, not continued violence on inner city streets, not campus shootings and certainly not public shootings in malls/movie theaters/day…

  • Phenomenal Woman

    R.I.P. Maya Angelou April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014 Writer, poet, mother, performer, activist. You made many fall in love with themselves.