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                             Marian Wright Edelman One of the many benefits of working in and around institutions of higher education, is the general plethora of socio-cultural programming available at most schools. Couple that with an Ivy-League nametag and you’ve got out of this world [...]

The road is long, and the battle is not yet won, equality eludes us on many fronts. But let’s take a moment and rejoice (versus debate) the fact that in the running for President of the most powerful nation on earth, we have choices. A man of color, a woman, a devout Mormon, a former [...]

Things that Actually Came Out of People’s Mouths: The first time I went to jail… Did anyone’s underwear come off? Work is like school without the chocolate milk, the playground and the nap. School pretty much rocked. New love is like a Slimfast shake, it’s probably healthier than what you had before, but you’ll probably [...]

    [1] Thanks for all of your kind words and thoughts for my family. Everyone is hanging in there. The final “home-going” service was beautiful and it was bittersweet to spend so much time with uncles, aunts and cousins that I don’t get to see often. I don’t want to go too far down [...]

    Crying, originally uploaded by funchilde. She’s gone. Thanks for all of your prayers and kind thoughts for my Mother’s Mother. She passed yesterday as if to say that a new year held no appeal for/to her, she’d had enough, seen enough, done enough. My heart aches for my mother and her siblings. I hope 2007 treated [...]