Since we have been blessed to arrive to this New Year, let’s all be mindful of what TIME has done. TIME has allowed us to become a year older and wiser. TIME removed loved ones from our midst. TIME has brought additions to our family. TIME. READ MORE!
Seems like everywhere we go these days – whether to the super market, to the corner store, to the gas station and other public places – someone has their hand out asking for spare change. I used to give from time to time until I realized these same able-bodied street-smart people were begging every time I saw them. It had become their lifestyle. So instead of handing out money, I began keeping flyers about certain community outreach programs in my car – programs that would perhaps help them to become gainfully employed – and handing them out instead. In other words, rather than give them fish, I wanted to teach them how to fish for their own. I would explain to them about the programs, and even gave bus fare to some who really seemed to be interested. I stopped doing that when people would then began asking me for bus fare knowing full well they were not interested and had no intentions of going to the programs. READ MORE!
If there’s anyone left in America, who at this point, can’t see that the Republican Party is the enemy of the American middle class, all they have to do is open their eyes and look at who the GOP is putting forward to assume the highest office in this land. READ MORE!
Concerning our youth; even when babies are born there are those parents who claim how much they love their children, but seldom show it if at all. With an epidemic of teen pregnancy, suicide, depression, and addiction, the most common underlying factor is that they don’t feel loved and valued by their parents. ‘Pregnot’! READ MORE!
Certainly there are many areas of needs in our community that we need to work at and in, but these seven areas pretty much encompass any and everything that we may face in our communities. FIND OUT WHAT BUDDY HAS TO SAY!
There is still so much hatred and prejudice prevalent today. There is even unprecedented blatant disrespect for the highest office in the land – the presidency – just because of skin color! If the disenchantment looms there, what does that say for the rank and file? How can some people be so blinded by prejudice while claiming to have so much faith in God? Do they think God only sees things the way they do? READ MORE OF LARRY’S COLUMN!
No matter how many New Year’s resolutions you make and try to keep, if you have no vision of who you are and what you want to do, you’ll fail every time. I’m of the notion that resolutions must be tied to purpose. Vision is what ignites purpose and drives us toward our goal or destiny. Where there is no vision, people perish.
By the late 1970’s Bobby Womack had been dropped by three labels. In 1981 he hooked up with Beverly Glen Music where he recorded “If You Think You’re Lonely Now.” He said that title came from a friend who exclaimed, “If you think you’re lonely now, wait until tonight” then slammed the phone down on his woman. Womack asked, “What did you just say?” The rest is history!
With the news of the first homicide in the city of Kalamazoo, has Dr. King’s ‘Dream,’ turned into a nightmare? READ BUDDY’S COLUMN!
The NAACP strives to help the nation become a better place. This organization represents the Umoja (Unity) principle in our Kwanzaa series. READ MORE!