DOING WELL

I want to first, thank God for His mercies and grace, my grandchildren, family and friends for their prayers. My surgery was a success and I am home recuperating. I didn’t sleep to well last night avoiding to sleep on the sore side. I need no more pain medication…

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WOMEN’S RIGHTS

Sir Godfrey Gregg Despite great strides made by the international women’s rights movement over many years, women and girls around the world are still married as children or trafficked into forced labour and sex slavery. They are refused access to education and political participation, and some are trapped in conflicts…

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DEEP FREEZE

It is a deep freeze in the northern half of the United States and Canada. For the past 4 days and this will continue in the New Year with sub-zero temperatures plus the wind chills. To the family in these affected areas and our many friends and well-wishers, I urge…

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HOSPITAL CLOSURES

WHY CLOSING HOSPITALS AND CUTTING STAFF WON’T SAVE NYC’S PUBLIC HOSPITAL SYSTEM Stanley Brezenoff, the interim president and CEO of New York City Health + Hospitals. (Ali Garber) The devastating Medicaid and Medicare cuts that could be imposed as a result of the Trump-Republican tax plan might mean the…

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BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS

Today I salute a woman from the small agricultural village of Fairhall in St. Vincent and the Grenadines name Roslyn Abraham. Some thirty-eight years ago I met the family and this young woman and an older lady named “Tanty”. At first, I thought they were daughter and mother but…

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IRMA A POWERFUL CAT 2

Category 6 Breaking news + deep dives on weather, climate, & air quality Cat 2 Irma Rapidly Intensifying in Eastern Atlantic; Big Long-Range Questions Dr. Jeff Masters  ·  August 31, 2017, 2:20 PM Above:  Microwave satellite image of Irma at 4:24 am EDT Thursday, August 31, 2017. An eye is visible…

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SON PROTECTS MOTHER FROM EX.

Teenage son chokes his mother’s ex-boyfriend to death after seeing him beat her inside Bronx apartment UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, the Bronx — A woman’s son allegedly choked his mother’s ex-boyfriend to death Monday after spotting the man beating his mother inside their Bronx apartment, police said. Police arrested Luis Moux, 18,…

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Mulzac, Hugh (1886-1971)

Hugh Mulzac, the first African American ship commander, was born on March 26, 1886 in the British West Indies’s Union Island in Saint Vincent Grenadines. After graduating from high school, Mulzac served on British merchant vessels.  He earned a mate’s license from Swansea Nautical College in Great Britain and…

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DEATHBED CONFESSION BY DYING CIA

Activism Truth Feed Whistleblowers World Truth TV  Dying CIA Agent Makes Deathbed Confession: ‘We Blew Up WTC-7 On 9/11’  July 25, 2017, 79-year-old retired CIA agent, Malcom Howard, has made a series of astonishing claims since being released from the hospital in New Jersey on Friday and told he has weeks to…

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Marcus Mosiah Garvey (Part ten)

Influence The UNIA flag uses three colors: red, black and green. Schools, colleges, highways, and buildings in Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and the United States have been named in his honor. The UNIA red, black, and green flag has been adopted as the Black Liberation Flag. Since 1980, Garvey’s bust has been housed…

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Marcus Mosiah Garvey (Part nine)

Death Garvey died in London on 10 June 1940, at the age of 52, having suffered two strokes, putatively after reading a mistaken, and negative, obituary of himself in the Chicago Defender in January earlier that same year, which stated, in part, that Garvey died “broke, alone and unpopular”. Due to travel…

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Marcus Mosiah Garvey (Part eight)

Later years In 1928, Garvey travelled to Geneva to present the Petition of the Negro Race. This petition outlined the worldwide abuse of Africans to the League of Nations. In September 1929, he founded the People’s Political Party (PPP), Jamaica’s first modern political party, which focused on workers’ rights, education, and aid to the poor. Also…

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Marcus Mosiah Garvey (Part seven)

Charge of mail fraud In a memorandum dated 11 October 1919,[36] J. Edgar Hoover, special assistant to the Attorney General and head of the General Intelligence Division (or “anti-radical division”)[37] of The Bureau of Investigation or BOI (after 1935, the Federal Bureau of Investigation),[38] wrote to Special Agent Ridgely regarding Garvey: “Unfortunately, however, he [Garvey]…

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BE CALM AND PEACEFUL
A MESSAGE OF LOVE AND ENCOURAGEMENT
MENTORS AND MILESTONES
THE CHURCH IN THE COMMUNITY
THE BRIDGE OF TRUST
UNITED IN PURPOSE
THE GIFT OF PRESENCE
THE ART OF LISTENING
THE ESSENTIAL PARTNERSHIP
BEYOND THE CLASSROOM
THE UNBREAKABLE LINK
BUILDING YOUR FINANCIAL FORTRESS
THE HEART OF THE HOME
WORDS AND ACTIONS MATTER
LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE
THE GIFT OF GRATITUDE
RESPECT STARTS WITH LISTENING