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  • Politics Is Like Hiring A Hitman
    by Scott Woods inPolitical on2020-08-13

    For me, politics is like hiring a hitman. I have values and things I care about. I care enough about them to at least bother voting for 5 minutes every year for one issue or another. And because I care at least that much, I vote for people who align with the ability to realize the things I care about.

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  • Punching Above Our Weight
    by Roger Madison Jr. inPolitical on2020-07-24

    I believe our vote is the punctuation of our voice. Without that resounding exclamation mark, I believe our voices are just incoherent noise.

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  • BLACK PROGRESS AMIDST SOCIAL CHAOS
    by Roger Madison Jr. inPolitical on2020-06-16

    Recent events have raised the profile of historical injustice and inequities here in the USA. The entire world has taken note of the fact that BLACK LIVES MATTER.   We invite all of our friends to engage in actions that result in the greatest movement for change in our history. It is imperative that we take advantage of this opportunity to affect a positive change by ACTING IN OUR SELF-INTERESTS.

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  • Living in a Black No-Man's Land
    by Roger Madison Jr. inOur Community on2019-10-28

    There are many narratives that define the Black experience in America in this 2nd decade of the 21st century. Our striving over the centuries of our sojourn in this nation is a tapestry of every human experience -- oppression, enslavement, forced assimilation, dehumanization, exclusion, segregation, isolation, struggle, perseverance, achievement, excellence, celebration, mourning, despair, progress, setbacks, lynching, assassination, genocide, terror, self-hatred, low esteem, pride,...

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  • Fighting Racism
    by Scott Woods inOur Community on2018-10-25

    I had a boss who was racist. Not an outright bigot, of course; her toolbox was more subtle than most. We bumped heads a lot over inconsequential things. She frequently couldn’t keep my name out her mouth. Lot of gaslighting. You know…2018 style. I tried a lot of ways to combat or navigate her issues. None of them worked, and that’s saying a lot because I’m really good at fighting racism. But at the end of the day – every day – she was my boss, I had to deal with her, and that was that. Finally I...

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Book Work Angels Helps Children Succeed!!

 

VISIT: BookWormAngels.org

Book Worm Angels is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization founded in 1999 to help children achieve proficiency in and a love for reading. We deliver new and gently used books for classroom lending libraries. The books are fun, general interest books appropriate for Pre-Kindergarten through 8th grades. We provide about 6,000 fun, general interest books for classroom lending libraries in a typical school of 600 students.

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In Chicago, there are over 140 elementary schools where the majority of the children read below grade level. The children in those schools rarely see anyone reading for enjoyment, and come to think of reading as work...worse yet, SCHOOL work. Book Worm Angels establishes classroom lending libraries in those schools so that children can discover that reading can be enjoyable...and by so doing, learn to read better...and in time to become better students. As of April,2008, we have collected and delivered over 1,100,000 books and serve over 73,000 students in 142 schools.

For more information visit: BookWormAngels.org