Born in Baltimore in the mid-eighties and growing up as a kid of the nineties there were tons of coming of age films that contributed to my sense of wonder and taught me lessons about life. A film that exemplified the lesson of growing up in a tough neighborhood and understanding the nuance and differenceContinue reading “A Bronx Tale: Respect Through Love or Fear”
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For HBCUs PLUS loans are predatory capitalism at the federal level
[Editor’s Note: Published by Age of Awareness on Medium May 2019] Recently Bennett College a four-year liberal arts women’s college in Greensboro, North Carolina, has been in the news; not for its history of being one of only two all women HBCUs in the country, not for any of its notable successful alumni but forContinue reading “For HBCUs PLUS loans are predatory capitalism at the federal level”
ABC’s of Death
When I step out my front door glossed with cracked paint out onto my stoop in Southwest Baltimore Md I peer down at the cracked pavement and lift my head to the desert that is home. Devoid of a suburbanization that I would resent anyway and it feels less. I see what could be throughContinue reading “ABC’s of Death”
On Mutually Inclusive Beneficial Compromise
The dictionary’s definition of Justice is: 1. the quality of being just; righteousness, equitableness, or moral rightness: to uphold the justice of a cause. 2. rightfulness or lawfulness, as of a claim or title; justness of ground or reason: to complain with justice. 3. the moral principle determining just conduct. 4. conformity to this principle,Continue reading “On Mutually Inclusive Beneficial Compromise”
Moment of Clarity 