Life Change Challenge: Week Three {Vegging Out}

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  My New Breville Juice Fountain I’ve been out sick for a couple of weeks, but I’ve been waiting to share some of our successes and challenges with you.  First off, we got a juicer!  The one above, in the picture, that’s ours.  It’s made by Breville and we went looking for this particular brand [...]

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#MulticulturalMondays Blog Hop: Growing Up Global {Friendship}

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  Image via growingupglobal.net   It’s been a couple of weeks since I last wrote a Multicultural Mondays post.  Being sick does that to you.  But I’m starting to feel better now and I’m actually glad that I had those two weeks to give my brain a little rest and think about how I wanted [...]

Why You Should Celebrate Black History Month – Every Day

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Black History Month (originally Negro History Week) was established in 1926 in an attempt to promote black history learning among the general population.  Before it’s establishment, black faces were systematically left out of American history and black history in education was viewed overall as unimportant and unnecessary. Since it’s founding, there has been a ceaseless resistance [...]

Another Black Youth Killed by NYPD

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Image: Flickr / jtl308   This is the third story this week of a young black male being killed by NYPD.  Not injured…KILLED.   It seems there isn’t enough uproar about the issue and I’m afraid that a lot of our ignoring the issue comes from the normalizing of black youth, and black folks in general, as criminals [...]