One of my proudest moments as a Black Woman in America was to watch a television icon, that didn't look like Rihanna nor have the body of Cardi B. put thousands of Black Men through Morehouse College. Going to an HBCU myself, that meant something. She looked like my Auntie. She had big feet and a wide nose with coarse thick beautiful hair to match....
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Everyone is looking for an affordable online Black Business Directory to conduct their business today. People went as far as to create Facebook groups to exchange Instagram, and Twitter handles, Websites, LinkedIn, almost everything under the sun to conduct business online. What if I were to tell you there is such a place waiting for you to e...
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Everyone is looking for an affordable online Black Business Directory to conduct their business today. People went as far as to create Facebook groups to exchange Instagram, and Twitter handles, Websites, LinkedIn, almost everything under the sun to conduct business online. What if I were to tell you there is such a place waiting for you to e...
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By Missy Reid Norris Gaffney is a City full of Pride and Tradition. This is a City where future generations return to raise the next generation. My name is Millicent (Missy) Reid Norris, and I care about our community, its economic future, and sustainability. Together we must maintain strong public safety; establish long and short term objectives a...
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We was homeless for almost a year; a year without a place to call our own. Me and Bae grinding; not much to laugh about. Yet each lousy hotel had one thing in common and that was “Wild n Out”. Yes Cable!!! You see I am not much of a TV watcher but my dude knew what he liked and marathon after marathon go...
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A Willingboro Handyman has no way to pay the children and teenagers he hired to learn the trade for the job they did in the home of 180 Northampton Drive a rental property belonging to NJ Wholesale Pros. It is said, that at first the handyman and a Realtor for NJ Wholesale Pros. talked about painting 6 rooms. To the handyman's knowle...
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"Keep Your Competition Close" By Dearest PriceCopyright Agape VoiceI have individuals on the team asking me if I am concerned with so many Black Business groups emerging on social media due to these perilous times. Am I "big mad" being tagged to Black this and Black that. Don't I cringe when I see someone attempt to do what I do? I say, "hell...
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“ I am willing to disagree but I am not willing to hate. On the anniversary of the Charleston Church Murders your rhetoric is sad but held by many. I will pray for you. I will not call you names. I will even be responsive to a certain point because our interaction exposes who you are. Why can't you see if it was up to the confederacy I would still ...
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My Protests Are Not Peaceful, They Are Invisible By Dearest PriceCopyright Agape VoiceMy protests are not peaceful because few have said her name, her Blackness kept dying in battle but only he claimed the fame. We can see it, we have rehearsed it, since the beginning of time, and when you called God a "He" it had to completely blow her mind. (Numb...
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I can’t tell you the pain that this woman has gone through with every step she takes in protest. I can’t tell her story. I can’t tell you the disappointment that she has experienced with every sound of her chants while marching. I can’t tell her story. I can’t tell you the trauma she has witnessed with every sign she holds. I can’t tell her st...
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The beautiful turn out in Florence, South Carolina to fight against systematic racism and police brutality was one my generation has never witnessed. To be in the presence of my young comrades of BLM was inspiring. And the first day of civil protest down Irby Street in front of judiciary buildings with chants of “no justice, no peace” and...
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A Poem for George . . . By Dearest PriceThe Revolution Is Being Televised, ever since our killings been filmed in the street, The Revolution Is Being Televised, when we no longer take yo heat, The Revolution Is Being Televised, burning cars, face masked up, The Revolution Is Being Televised, because these young people see you didn't give a fuck,The...
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COVID19 Pandemic? Financial Crisis? George Floyd Uprisings?? I have been a therapist for almost twenty years. Professionally, I work hard to help my clients make sense of their lives. I use “talk therapy” to help people to understand the challenges and obstacles of their everyday experiences. I make sense of depression, anxiety, trauma, abuse, infi...
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My partner and I where on our way to go out in the streets of Charlotte Friday night to protest one of the greatest atrocities in American history; the genocide of the Black Man. We kept the news on our local stations; CNN and MSNBC amongst others. We had our masks and were set to poster up because finally it was time to li...
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Her humility is rare. Her spirit is radiating and speaking to Teresa B. Howell was truly an honor. She is a writer by trade and a straight "sister friend" in real life. The wisdom she imparts is delightful, holding no airs about being a National Best Selling Author and play-write. Featured in the Huffington Post, CEO Magazine, The He...
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Chariel Dye is revolutionary. She is my sister-friend, my business partner and a advocate in the community. And she is always reinventing herself into something inspiring and dynamic. So when I asked her about her new company, here is what she told me. “I started RMS Homemade Scrubs in honor of my mother! RMS is her initials, Ricole Minne...
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Black Line News was just a conversation between Thomas Adams and I some years ago. 100,000 followers later, dozens of websites and clients, I toast my friend, business partner and cheerleader. Thomas and I went to High School together and it took about 20 years to reconnect. He is my business life jacket. When no one believ...
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I partnered purposely with a powerhouse. She is not ordinary. Her picture would be shown in the dictionary with exceptional. She is the brain behind, Pillow Talk, the owner of Agape Voice and a host on I-Heart Radio. Her name is Katris Wright. She is a boss lady, my mentor and my spiritual guide. She has turned my business completely around an...
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Without even applying, I was sent my first credit card. I was a freshman in college, just getting out of High School. I didn’t have a job and was “broker than a mug”. The credit limit was $1000 on the card and I blew it in the first couple of months never having the funds to pay it back. I earned a Bachelors Degre...
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How many bullets fired in his chest? How many times going through unrest? 8 whole minutes kneeling on his neck, Black faces on the pavement, oh you stacking the deck, How many soldiers do we have to watch die?I can't even count them and I dare won't try, Lynched for jogging, now what the heck? Black faces on the pavement, oh you stacking the deck, ...
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