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Sherlene Stevens: Some Businesses Simply Can't Be Separated Racially

In this new America, I believe that there are some businesses that simply can't be soley for one-racial identity (customers). Does your list look like mine? My List Health care venues; Government staff venues; Places of worship or denominations when such organization is "the only" like-organization in a local community; Evening programs of places of worship; Political parties;  Funeral homes; Sport teams; Airports; Gas suppliers of gas stations; Car dealerships; Cable services; Utility services; Banks; Credit card services; Hotels, motels, Inns, etc.; and,  Internet services. What I learned from making this list is that all lives and occupations really do matter.

Sherlene Stevens: Poetry of Appreciation To My Female Audiences

Perhaps some of you, like me, have a daughter who has pursuits to attend college, or desires to move away for their first job opportunity. To a Daughter Leaving Home When I taught you at at eight to ride a bicycle, loping along beside you as you wobbled away on two round wheels, my own mouth rounding in  surprise when you pulled ahead down the curved  path of the park, I kept waiting for the thud of your crash as I sprinted to catch up, while you grew smaller, more breakable with distance, pumping, pumping for your life, screaming with laughter, the hair flapping behind you like a handkerchief waving goodbye. -- Linda Pastan Look what our attitude of  American finance systems have done--productively allowed the labels or identification of our most highlighted social dysfunctions towards money. A Song in the Front Yard I've stayed in the front yard all my life. I want a peek at the back where it's tough and untended and hungry weed grows.  A girl gets si...

Quotes: What Makes An Effective Leader

Any one can have the job task of being a leader, what makes one (a male or female) become an effective leader? This would be a leader that really get the job done, above and beyond, or is productive in the anticipated outcomes--for self, a team, or a group of people. *This edition is dedicated to Nelson Mandela (or Mandiba) and the African citizens. Mr. Mandela will be laid to rest on December 15, 2013. He was not a religious leader, that would be a different kind of leader. Mr. Mandela was a community leader who, through consistent leadership efforts of just doing the right thing, became an effective political leader. He perfected his leadership ability while being surrounded by racial and cultural-identity hatred in his own country. Quotes Every right implies a responsibility, every opportunity an obligation, every possession a duty.- John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Action springs, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. Dietrich Bonhoeffer There are two primary ...