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Please Meet Charlotte E. Ray

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Please Meet Charlotte E. Ray

It’s February again. I thought I would highlight some less obvious African Americans who have contributed to the tapestry of our American history. As the first woman admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia and the first African-American woman certified as a lawyer in the United States, civil and women’s rights activist and teacher Charlotte E. Ray truly earned her place in history. She was born in New York City on January 13, 1850, to Charles Bennett Ray and Charlotte Augusta Burroughs Ray.  Charles was a minister at New York’s Bethesda Congregational Church, and editor of the Colored American, an abolitionist……
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Let Me Introduce Garrett Morgan

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Let Me Introduce Garrett Morgan

Born in Paris, Kentucky, on March 4, 1877, Garrett Morgan was the seventh of 11 children. When Morgan was in his mid-teens, he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, to look for work. Jobs at several sewing-machine factories soon captured his imagination and determine his future. Learning the inner workings of the machines and how to fix them, Morgan obtained a patent for an improved sewing machine and opened his own repair business. Morgan experimented with and finally tested a hair straightener products for African Americans.  When that worked, he quickly established the G.A. Morgan Hair Refining Company and sold the cream……
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Do more than just exist. We all exist. The question is: Are you living?

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Do more than just exist. We all exist. The question is: Are you living?

A while ago, I realized the course my life had taken up had been the product of other people’s ideas, opinions, and decisions. I knew all too well that life was short, yet every day I was just going through the motions and doing what I was “supposed” to do, instead of what was right for ME. I was in line. I was comfortable. And I was utterly distracted from what matters most in life. But, fast forward to today, and as I awoke this morning I marveled at my life. Where once I awoke with inner resistance at the……
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Are you ready to adjust your focus?

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Are you ready to adjust your focus?

“Ten years from now, it won’t really matter what shoes you wore today, how your hair looked, or what brand of clothes you wore.  What will matter is how you lived, how you loved, and what you learned along the way. Deep down you know this already, right? Yet today, just like the majority of us, you are easily distracted and derailed by the insignificant. You give too much of your time to meaningless time-wasters. You step through days, skeptically, with inner resistance. You take your important relationships for granted. You get caught up in hurtful drama. You give in……
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