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Yesterday I reached a couple of personal milestones and it had me thinking about Milestones in general. For me healthwise I didn’t see myself growing up to make it to 19 so when I did I made a promise to myself that every year I would find a way to celebrate that milestone, and forContinue reading “Reaching Milestones”

I wanted to say THANK YOU all for coming to this blog and showing me that you like the progress its doing. That in itself is the best gift I could receive this year. It’s slowly growing with more followers and likes on each post and along with all that, the people I am gettingContinue reading “It’s my Birthday!!!”

Poetic Liberation behind the Microphone By Courtney L. Smith 13th Amendment has been liberating microphones in the southern portion of Atlanta,Georgia and most recently Houston, Texas. The gospel has been poetically dispersed uponnumerous microphones in addition to his artistic styles of lyrical protests against many of thesocial injustices commonly observed by our society. He hasContinue reading “Courtney L. Smith”

Surround yourself with only people who are only going to lift you higher -Oprah Winfrey- The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results. – James Dean- The earth is the Mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. -Chef Joseph-

From HPS Magazine!!!

“There’s no life in safety,” said three-time National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Image Award winner Nikki Giovanni who began her own life on June 7, 1943, in Knoxville, Tennessee. She moved with her mother and sister to a small black suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio, although she traveled back to Knoxville during the summers to liveContinue reading “Nikki Giovanni”

James Mercer Langston Hughes was born February 1, 1901, in Joplin, Missouri. Hughes’s birth year was revised from 1902 to 1901 after new research from 2018 uncovered that he had been born a year earlier. His parents divorced when he was a young child, and his father moved to Mexico. He was raised by his grandmotherContinue reading “Langston Hughes”

Is there trust in a relationship within Mainstream and Black Culture Trust in any relationship is necessary and important for it to be a good one. Trust assured reliance on the character, ability, strength or truth of someone, one in which confidence is placed, dependence on something in the future– Webster dictionary 10th ed. DoesContinue reading “BLACK FEMALES and MALES:”

Can you actually have a love/hate with covid from effects towards mental health? The COVID-19 pandemic may have brought many changes to how you live your life, and with it, at times, uncertainty, altered daily routines, financial pressures and social isolation. You may worry about getting sick, how long the pandemic will last, whether your job willContinue reading “Covid and Mental Health”