What 2 Homeless Students Can Teach Us About Overcoming Adversity

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As someone who has had to overcome major challenges, I am often drawn to stories about individuals who overcome obstacles to achieve their dreams. However, two recent stories really caught my attention partly because they were positive stories about black youths for a change, but mainly because of the lessons that can be learned from [...]

Learn To Be Great At Failure

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I had the pleasure of attending Tory Johnson’s Spark and Hustle in New York City.  Among the amazingly, inspiringly informative presenters was real estate mogul and Shark Tank star, Barbara Corcoran.   Her topic: How I Turned $1000 Into a Billion Dollar Business and The 10 Lessons I learned along the way.  I thought I’d spend some time reflecting on each [...]

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Your Black World is a black news site that focuses on presenting black news in a way that celebrates our diversity. We feature the top academics in America, along with black celebrity news, black educational news, black relationships, black sports, black health, black women’s issues, black politics, etc. We have over 20 black blogs and [...]

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The Equality Advantage From our long history and experience to our comprehensive and easily accessible content, there are many reasons why job-seekers and companies turn to us. We represent an efficient and attractive tool to both those looking for jobs and those looking to hire. We invite you to learn how EqualityMagazines.com can give your [...]

Passion Into Action: Are You Turning Your Obstacles Into Opportunities?

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As we start to see some light in the job market and in the unemployment world, as the greatest recession in the history of America starts to come to an end, the dust is starting to clear and shows us that we as a people can once again make it through anything! In my book, [...]

Education and Achievement: What Parents Can Do to Bridge the Gap

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One thing that I find troubling is the lack of access that is afforded to many parents with regards to educating their children. An ability to speak more than one language, a defined curriculum of math and science, as well as, an understanding of the workings of the world outside of American shores will give [...]

You’ve Graduated, What’s God’s Will For Your Life?

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On numerous occasions I have had the opportunity to talk to groups of graduating students.  It is a wonderful time for them when they are in their senior year of study with all the anticipation of what success will bring.  It can be a scary time, too:  Friendships will be taking on a new dynamic.  Some will fade [...]