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Nobody wants a good guy or girl until………..

  Bad boys and bad girls are all the rage these days. They are splashed on the covers of magazines, they have invaded prime time television with their fighting and egos and are literally everywhere. Fathers that have daughters have nightmares about their little girls marrying  Mr. Wrong. Mothers will fight tooth and nail for […]

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How do we deal with something we don’t want to talk about?

The CDC estimates 1.1 million people in the U.S are living with HIV the virus that causes Aids. African Americans represent 59% of the newly diagnosed HIV cases in Chicago, Caucasians represent 23% of the newly diagnosed HIV cases in Chicago, and Latinos represented 16% of the newly diagnosed cases of HIV in Chicago according […]

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Faith, Family and Finances

It’s a new year!  Get your 2012 started out with the 3 F’s Faith, Family and Finances per Michael Nwoke. Get your houses in order!  Faith- Strengthen your relationship with your creator so that when the storms come you won’t fold. If you are  unable to stand in your faith you definitely can’t help others. […]

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UMOJA- UNITY How can we unify our families, communities?

  Today is the first day of Kwanzaa!  This is my first year celebrating so I am really exciting about learning more about this celebration. Today Umoja is the focus which means unity; to strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race.  As I think about blacks as a people, I […]

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You’re attitude determines if you are winning!

Many people have heard the phrase your attitude determines your altitude; its not just some cliche statement. The way your day goes is determined by the program that you currently have running through your head. What makes us have a bad day? Is it the actual problems that we have or the way in which […]

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Girls Gone Wild!!

That was then and this is now; whenever you talk about how things used to be that is typically the response. There are some aspects of yesterday that worked however, many have been convinced that they are no longer valuable today. Today I want to talk about young and older ladies actually behaving like ladies. […]

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What responsibility do 501c3 Faith Based institutions have to address violence in the communities that they are located in?

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Be Careful who you let into your upper room!

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Membership has its privileges.

A thread that I read about earlier inspired today’s post.  In the world of dating there are rules; what you should do on a first date, how much is too much to spend, who picks up the bill, literally tons of them. I believe however there are some things that are simply a no no! […]

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Out of Control Children what happened?

There seems to be a new trend where parents are not able to do anything with their children what happened? There is nothing new under the sun I believe that children have not changed so much but I believe that parenting styles have. What’s your opinion?

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