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Feb 02 2025

My Outside Voice

Day Two

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February 3, 2025

I am very excited about the buzz surrounding Black History Month in our community. We must pick up the mantel and carry on the tradition of sharing our stories. I have been reading various books throughout the past year or so. I finished two books in January that referenced historical figures. I had no idea…

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Black History Month 2025

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February 2, 2025

Day 1 – February 1st “Real education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better,” ― Carter G. Woodson, quote from The Mis-Education of the Negro Dr. Carter G. Woodson is considered the father of Black History. He instituted Negro History…

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Reflections

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February 2, 2025

Remembering Connecticut 2024 We visited Uncle Herbert and Aunt Doretha just a few weeks after going through some family challenges. The pain was still very fresh but my daughter and I endeavored to make this trip. I’m glad we did. Uncle Herbert and Aunt Doretha laid out the red carpet and took us to lunch…

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Legacy and Storytelling

Dr. A
August 16, 2020

Have you ever been so consumed with something that you go to sleep with it on your mind? You wake up with it. You even dream about it. You can’t shake it no matter how hard you try. That’s how much legacy has consumed me over the past several years. There was always something at…

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Dinah’s 3rd Great-Granddaughter

The YouTube icon links directly to Diedre’s performance in honor
of the 50th anniversary of the commemoration of the
Selma to Montgomery March.
Residents from Gees Bend were there on Bloody Sunday in 1965.
We honor you. Ase’

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