I’ve always LOVED reading. I can’t remember a time when I didn’t. I also knew that I always wanted to teach. When I started teaching, all I wanted was to share my love for reading. In reality, what I saw was that too many children do NOT love to read. They don’t even LIKE it. […]
I’m reading Cicely Tyson’s book, Just As I Am, before beginning my tutoring day. She speaks of the touring engagements she did for the movie, Sounder, one of my all-time favorite movies. On the bias that she witnessed during that tour she says that there was an assumption about black people/families, by many that, “You […]
(116) Chadwick Boseman’s Life Advice Will Leave You SPEECHLESS | RIP ‘Black Panther’ – YouTube My father sent this to me today and it made me think. I lost a business client a couple of days ago and while I wasn’t upset in the loss of the client, the loss of the income bothered me. […]
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https://www.facebook.com/marjorie.tabb/videos/10211009498312738/ There were key words that I heard in this excerpt from an interview with Dr Eddie Glaude, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. I’ve listened to the interview more than three times now. Is this who we are? It is one of the questions posed to […]