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Sometimes I wish that I could do all and be all but I am not, will not and can not.
First I would like to apologize for the typographical errors in the last edition.
It was very difficult edition. I wanted to quit after it. I wanted to throw in the towel. The duty of compiling the information was overwhelming to say the least even though we received so many positive responses from the edition.
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As we go through this life we learn to value a lot of different things. Usually it is material. I wonder how many of us value ourselves? I mean really put a value on the most valuable possession that we have… ourselves.
Give the lady credit.
That lady of course, is Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm. And the credit actually goes to the Governor and the Legislative Black Caucus for their persistence and ingenuity in trying to find creative ways to bring down the scandalously high insurance rates residents of urban areas through out the state must pay simply because of where they live.
Studio: DreamWorks (1 hr. 20 mins.)
Plot: Four domesticated zoo animals escape from the New York City Zoo, and are shipped away to the wiild.
Cast: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Andy Richter, Cedric the Entertainer, Sacha Baron Cohen
Rating: G
Bottom Line: **1/2
ROME, GA – For more than 16 years on death row, Billy Neal Moore taught and preached to fellow inmates and the American public about Christ’s love. Miraculously, his life was spared just seven hours prior to his execution time. He describes his experiences in his new autobiography, I Shall Not Die: Seventy-two Hours on Death Watch (now available through AuthorHouse).
Ask the Director Questions and Answers on Civil Rights from Linda V. Parker
Director of the Michigan Department of Civil Rights
I don’t really remember just how my oldest and dearest friend, Barbara Jean Baker Vinson VanBuren and I met. It’s been over fifty years ago! We met at Lincoln Elementary School in Gary, Indiana. She lived in the projects on one side of the school, just beyond the sand dunes. I lived on the other side of the school in a new house that one of my father’s friends had helped him buy after my first born brother had been released from the hospital, suffering pneumonia as we had lived in a cold basement apartment! Mr. Montgomery and my father both worked in the Gary Works Steel Mills, as did Barbara’s father, Mr. Edwin Baker. I was the oldest of eight children and Barbara was in the middle of her family’s seven children. We hooked up in grade school and continued our relationship through graduation at Froebel High School in 1961. Oh, how the years have flown! For I can remember when…..
The adult child of an interracial couple dedicates a website to educating people about the Supreme Court decision that allowed his parents to marry.