The children of Israel must have been stunned. They had heard about Moses’ run-in with the burning bush in the desert and they witnessed the multiple plagues God used to humble the great Pharaoh. What God was asking them to do now, to assume the wealth of their captors, just as they were packing their […]
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Connecting Resources with Needs
Dinita Thomas, warehouse manager and Erin Belitskus, development and volunteer coordinator in BBF Pennsylvania, and BBF’s Vice President Karen Dempsey welcome guests to BBF anniversary event. Brother’s Brother Foundation, one of the nation’s leading charitable organizations recently celebrated its first anniversary in the D.C. metro area with an open house that brought together more than […]
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Church Trains Congregation to Recognize, Respond to Mental Illness
Pastor Frankey Grayton and Mental Health First Aid course instructor Tamara Warren-Chinyani quiz church participants on mental health material. Congregants of Edgewood Baptist Church in Southeast, recently participated in a groundbreaking training program to teach parishioners to recognize and respond to signs of mental illness. Mental Health First Aid, an 8-hour course managed by the National […]
Posted inBaltimore News
Should the U.S. shelter the women and children immigrants coming across the Mexican border? Why or Why not?
Dora Evans “While it’s difficult to determine the intentions of all illegal immigrant, I believe immigrant women and children should be sheltered by the U.S. because some of them are coming from places of hardship and are looking for a better life. Each of us are Americans today because our parents, grandparents or great grandparents […]
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YO! Baltimore Helps Out-of-School Youth
A youth oriented group, Youth Opportunity (YO!) Baltimore, helps serve out-of-school youth and young adults between the ages of 16 and 24 at two youth-friendly centers in East and West Baltimore. The program helps members build important life skills and help young people increase their wage earnings and educational attainment. YO! Baltimore was founded in […]
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Is the Mosby-Neverdon Race for Real?
Democratic candidate Marilyn Mosby (l), and Independent candidate Russell Neverdon. Now that the primary election in Baltimore has proclaimed Marilyn Mosby the Democratic candidate for City State’s Attorney, a race that is usually sealed in this majority Democrat city and state, is really beginning. Or is it? Then Democrat Russell Neverdon declared in February of this […]
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Opinions Range on Housing Immigrant Children
The push to find homes for hundreds of unaccompanied Central American immigrant children increases as Maryland leaders search to find a solution to the current immigration crisis. The prevailing thought is that the children are leaving their home country due to the violence they’re forced to endure. For many Central American children, gangs are taking […]
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Delaware State University Hosts 2nd Annual HBCU Philanthropy Symposium
The keynote speaker this year was Johnny C. Taylor Jr. The Delaware State University Division of Institutional Advancement recently hosted a number of regional HBCUs at its second annual Historically Black College and University Philanthropy Symposium on July 24-25 in the university’s Martin Luther King Jr. Student Center. The Symposium’s objective is to build a […]
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The Unordinary Ordinary Person Of The Summer Of 1964
Carl Se-Keung ‘Imiola’ Young Over fifty summers have come and gone since the summer of 1964 in Mississippi. That summer over a 1,000 mostly young people rode down to Mississippi to help disenfranchised Blacks register to vote. And my friend Carl Se-Keung Imiola Young was one of them. Carl who? You ask. In American schools […]
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Why Conservatives Don’t Trust the Media – One Victim’s Story
July 7th was the first time I attended a protest, and I was shocked by what I saw. I am a conservative married to a Mexican woman, and have children of half-Mexican descent. I know the value of speaking Spanish. My wife and I made it a priority for our children to learn the language. […]
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Straight-Up Talk about Testosterone
It’s almost impossible to turn on the TV or open a newspaper (or website) without hearing about testosterone deficiency in men. We’re barraged with information that ranges from scientifically correct concerns about a very real medical condition, to completely unsubstantiated claims about “miracle” supplements that promise to do everything from improving a man’s mood and […]
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Secretary Kerry Holds the Key to End Racial Discrimination at the World Bank
Dr. Jim Yong Kim as the first minority president of the World Bank The World Bank has no equivalent in the United States as far as institutionalized discrimination goes. To hear firsthand the harrowing discrimination that Black employees endure in the World Bank is to be transported back in time to the 1950s. At the […]
