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Continue reading →: Teenager Phylicia Barnes is Still Missing
Seventeen year-old, Phylicia Barnes, went missing on December 28th in Baltimore, MD while visiting her half-sister. Anyone with information should call 1-855-223-0033. The North Carolina honor student is set to graduate a year early from high school. The case has just recently begun to garner national media attention which frustrated…
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Continue reading →: All Hail the King
When I think of MLK, so many images come to mind. On Saturday morning, I thought about the indellible mark that he left on not only this country, but the world. I shook my head sadly as I thought of the younger brother of a friend who spits on his…
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Continue reading →: Terrorism in Tuscon
At a rally about three hours ago, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head at close range. Six have died, including a nine-year old girl, and 12 others were injured. Giffords (D-TX) was meeting with her constituents and supporters. One of the deceased was a federal judge, John Roll.…
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Continue reading →: How What I Learned Helped a Female Vet
Let’s rewind about fifteen years…I was attending a family 50th anniversary event. I was excited to see a cousin with whom I was close growing up. I had not seen her in at least seven years: she joined the Army, I went to college. I approached her babbling, eager to…
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Continue reading →: OWNership
I am admittedly not a big Oprah fan, however I must respect her business acumen and prowess. Ms. Winfrey has created a media empire and the latest addition is OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network. I was intrigued when I overheard a snippet of an interview where she discussed the current…
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Continue reading →: Mule of the World
I see her often, That young woman with sad, troubled eyes. Her vacant stare looks through me. What troubles her so? She was once a strong, Black woman! But the world has made her weak. So weak, That sometimes, she doesn’t feel she can hold on. But what does she…
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Continue reading →: RIP Lady T
There will never be another…Teena Marie. March 5, 1956 – December 26, 2010
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Continue reading →: Justice Aint Blind
I am a HUGE James Baldwin fan. His quote from 1972 has been ringing in my ears lately. “If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One…
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Continue reading →: Join the Village
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…
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Continue reading →: Still Waiting for Superman?
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.…
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I’m Ayoka
Welcome to Mule Of The World. Musings and rants from this Black woman. Zora Neale Hurston called the Black woman “the mule of the world.”
