Lighting Up Lansing – One Smile at a Time 20-6

Gizelle Marcella Jones is in the 3rd grade.  She enjoys singing and creating artistic projects through video and drawing.

She reads to her mother, Alita Jones, every night and loves her older brother, Savon.  She has two dogs she dotes on.

She is reading “I Believe I Can” by Grace Byers. 

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We Remember: Alvin (Al) Dwayne Crudup

Regina Crudup was married to Alvin (Al) Dwayne Crudup for 40 years.

She says she has good days and bad days since he passed away.

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Interpersonal Edge: A Spring of hope!

By Dr. Daneen Skube
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Q: People seem to be in two camps right now; vaccinated and hopeful, and unable to find vaccines and despairing. How do you think the vaccine process is going to impact our workplaces? Do you think we have a reason to be hopeful or is this virus just going to throw us another rotten curveball?
 

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General Rules for Happily Ever After

By Landis Lain

Cinderella’s stepmother was not wicked. She had no skills, no job, no prospects, and two daughters to support.  She married a man who died and left her with an extra child who learned all the stuff stepmother did not.  Girlfriend was disappointed.

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How ‘Coming 2 America’ Landed a Megan Thee Stallion Song and Cameos by En Vogue, Salt-N-Pepa and Gladys Knight

Wesley Snipes with Teyana Taylor in “Coming 2 America.” By Quantrell D. Colbert /Amazon Studios/TNS By Jazz Tangcay Variety Like…

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Stephen Alexander: Family Man, Firearms Expert, Latin Dance Instructor and More

Stephen Alexander participating in a solo skydive jump for
Father's Day at Tecumseh Skydive in 2015.

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MULTIRACIAL IN AMERICA Race and Social Connections – —Friends, Family and Neighborhoods

Kevaleigh Parker is a 20 year old student at Western Michigan University from Lansing, MI.  Her mother is white and her father is Black.

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Dwayne Johnson Tests the Political Waters in NBC’s ‘Young Rock’

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson attends a press conference to announce that MetLife Stadium will host WWE Wrestlemania 29 in 2013 at MetLife Stadium on Feb. 16, 2012 in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
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Woman Retires After 35 Years at the Post Office

Sabrina Jackson Todd has had a career that most would envy.

However, that does not mean it was not challenging.

Todd is shown here unveiling the 2018 stamp at Sleeping Bear Dunes in Michigan. The stamp is a Priority Mail Express stamp and cost $24.70.

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