There is a message planted in every father. If you discover it, that will be his greatest gift to you. If you miss it, he will take it to the grave, in hopes that the spirit will see you through.  A real father is the sun of every child. But the sun sometimes misses a plant or two. The sun causes drought and doesn’t ever&nb...

June 19, 2019 will be the 154th anniversary of Juneteenth. This is the final celebration of Emancipation from the confederacy in Texas. Abraham Lincoln, reluctantly issued the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862. Slaves transmitted this information through the grapevine, abandoning plantations, seeking refuge with Union forces. Yet in T...

Marsha McLean, LPC, LCAS, CCS, Licensed Professional Counselor in North Carolina/Virginia, Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialists and Certified Clinical Supervisor is the vessel for many dealing with mental heath challenges. She earned a Master’s Degree from Webster University in 2003 where her skills and ex...

God has a way that’s mighty sweet and I always say you can’t persecute, hurt, oppress or victimize people without the universe taking its shot on you. Malcolm X eloquently coined it as, “the chickens coming home to roost”, while some say it’s the bitch of Karma. I like to use the Bible, and say vengeance is the Lord’s.  You see ...

Pastor Appreciation at New Hope AME Zion Church was awesome. Rev. Anetia Wright delivered a message that stirred my soul and gave me a better understanding of my spiritual teacher, Rev. Dr. Debra Hall. Such a fitting message, delivered to Pastor, from her childhood friend. Rev. Hall being the good girl while Rev. Wright was the Afrocentric radical....

I had the pleasure of meeting the charismatic Bennie Howard Jr. this pass Sunday at New Hope AME Zion Church in Salisbury. I love children that push toward greatness and this is what I saw in Bennie.  His small frame yet big personality lite up the church. He articulated to me that he played Point Guard for the Statesville, Sonics and that the...

​Fourty one murders in Chicago in one weekend. Eleven murders in Virginia Beach this weekend. West Covina, CA, Cleveland, TX, Reserve, Louisiana, St. Louis, Missouri, Washington, DC have killed, killed, killed, killed, killed and killed. This is only 7 days of war. The killings are too common. We are desensitize. We scroll over ...

Every child that dies to gun violence, should incense you. We should immediately think it could have been our own children. It could have been us in the wrong place and time with our babies. It could have been us, in this unbelievable, hateful trend. It could of been us grappling to pull the pieces somewhere . . . to not loose all the pieces. ...

Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve sat back, combing through the debates about the removal of “Fame” and the irony of Salisbury’s first Black, female mayor acting as a mediator of this hurtful legacy left behind by the confederacy. I will not mix words in this piece nor try to appease any acting party in this matter because the idea...

Bob Marley said it best when he sung, “how long shall they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look”? I say, how many have to die to gun violence before we truly do something about this epidemic that is taking over our local communities? The latest victim, Mya Miller, was murdered by this random wave of violence. As we pr...

I met Ms. Chariel Dye, lovingly known as Minnette NuMe Smith, for the first time this weekend at the local I-Hop in Salisbury. I have to be honest, I was blown away by her warm presence. She truly was light, as we pass by people everyday that “mean mug” you, don’t hold doors and can barely speak. So as we look for...

I guess most think I just post to be heard. I don't tell how many times I've been to the prisons, or how many grieving mothers I've consoled. I don't tell about how many homeless shelters I've stayed at or how many people I've feed. I don't cause FB ain't real. This crap ain't nothing but horns and whistles that make us dead but please don't assume...

​How dare you Facebook,  You try to contain the voice of a people, that were brought here on your slave ships, 200 years of picking your cotton, decades and decades assaulted by your grip, subjected to centuries of rape by your men, tastes of Reconstruction then your chain gangs again, lynched by the rop...