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Mother Morrison - Queen of the Pen

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Some of you grieved hard for Nipsey, while  others held on to TuPac. Some of you were devastated by Aaliyah and Left Eye as there death still has you shell shock. But today I grieve for my mother, a literary god, a genius meets her end. Her name was Toni Morrison and in my despair she was always my frien...
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Dear Dearest,

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​August 5, 2019 Dear Dearest,  I am the survivor of a physically abusive relationship from my husband who I haven’t seen in 4 years. I was a coward and I exposed my children, who were 10 and 8 at the time to their father physically violating me, breaking my nose, damaging my vison among other things. I never ...
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Dear Dearest,

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August 4, 2019 Dear Dearest,   I have been with the same individual for 3 years. We started doing business together until we realized we had great chemistry. We had to immediately “x” the business relationship because it caused too much conflict with the new way that we looked at each other. We have even been disgraceful, f...
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Dear Dearest,

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August 3, 2019 Dear Dearest,  My son has recently graduated from High School and has decided to attend a Vocational Tech. I am very proud of him as he enters this new endeavor. I took the appropriate steps to secure his spot, such as registration and financial aid. As time drew nearer for him to attend, he began to bother me daily&nb...
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Activate It!!!!

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To be young, gifted and Black .  . . what does that truly mean? Kt James may have some answers for you with his new project “Now or Never”; a combination of songs about relationships, life and of course love. This humble 23 year old graced the Toddler Teller, Black Line News and I-Heart Radio’s presence, with...
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Dear Dearest,

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August 2, 2019 Dear Dearest,  My son was recently released from prison after serving 4 years in the Feds for a non-violent drug offense. He is currently staying with me. His father died while he was serving time. My son and I have always gotten along and he has always shown respect towards me until ...
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Charlotte Royalty, Anthony Hamilton - Hot Sauce

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I believe the ancestors would have been tickled pink to see us Black Folks, being treated like royalty, with elaborate table settings, and scrumptious fixings of cornbread, fish and collard greens. Gathering at Londa's Place, a castle that some would have never imagined one of us owning, we packed all hues of Black and Browns to...
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Dear Dearest,

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Dear Dearest,  “Why are you keeping your ex-husband’s last name? Don’t you want to let go of all the baggage?” - Just Being Nosy Dear “Just Being Nosy”, “What a bold act to become free from a toxic, oppressive relationship yet wear your scars like a boss.” ~ Dearest Price I’m not ashamed of being deceived yet that is not the rea...
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Who is Dearest?

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“We can laugh but also be serious about social change. They are not planning to tell us when the Revolution will begin.” ~Dearest Yolanda Dearest Price, M.Ed, grew up in Long Island, New York. She followed her passion for teaching, attending Howard University and later earning a History and Africana Studies Degree from Stony Brook Univers...
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Every Father Has A Message

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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...
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Stop Capitalizing on Juneteenth and Start Strategizing!

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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...
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Marsha McLean, LPC, LCAS, CCS - Tackling Mental Health, where failure is not an option

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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...
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So you are saying, you are the victim Linda Fairstein?

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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 ...
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Killing is too common - All in 7 days - Mass Shootings - Bet you won’t share this . . .

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​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 ...
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Wyandanch, the only school budget to fail out of 124 Districts

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There is something seriously wrong when you have 124 districts on Long Island and only 1 school budget fails. There is something seriously wrong, when the community that has the greatest need has to decide on which teachers to cut and what extracurricular activity is too much. There is something seriously wrong with a 40% school tax hike;...
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The Timer is On - “My Granddaddy would have been banned from FB too.”

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​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...
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Black Wyandanch

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Change is local. I know that for certain and when Thomas and I decided to branch out to create local publications throughout the East Coast and eventually nationally, I caught so much resistance and flack from my own people. "You're not from here". "You’re gonna fail". No, I'm not from Wyandanch but Thomas is and I feel like we have final...
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