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WE WORK HARD TO DRESS ALIKE

Gloria Mayfield Banks & Allison Lamarr

What i like best about travel is the connection i make with the people i meet. Women, i find all share the same concern with regards for our family. The family dynamics is the same for Afro -Caribbea

My kids was my valentines this year!!

Me on valentines day 09 hunny sent flowers from overseas since he could be her to enjoy this day with me.

So I attended a workshop in late fall of an intimate group of directors of color from within our 26 member network of organizations. We were all pretty clear that our titles in essence meant nothing,

Tonight he gave me a big hug. The kind that I never had before. You know the kind, like when you were a little girl holding your favorite blanket or doll. The kind that makes you feel like the sun is

Why do we say "NO" before getting all the facts and making a educated decision? I think it's because growing up as a child that was one of the first words we learned. Check out the video of another

FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA

First All African American Female Flight Crew On February 12, 2009, Captain Rachelle Jones and First Officer Stephanie Brown Grant made history for being the first all African-American female crew

Since my book "Food for the Soul" is to reform or stimulate marriage within the black community, I came across an interesting article, that speaks multitudes: A 9-year-old named Jayla Cooper of Sou

Doing my daily day to day errands I got a call from a client who I booked a flight for to go with her friends to the annual Essence magazine conference in the past. Today she called me to book a fligh

great song...

Inauguration 2009

My god-daughter's high school graduation!

Author of "Serpentine Tongue" and "Food for the Soul" available at www.authorhouse.com; www.amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.

Us at Strip for his birthday!

At our super bowl party (Feb. '09)

Us hanging out listening to some jazz at Cafe 290

Me & Boo at a friends engagement party!

Lord, Why Me…….. Often when trial and tribulation come in our lives, the first thing we say is Lord Why Me? Come on now you know you have said this too; I know I’m not the only one. I have heard that

FREEDOM FOR US ALL IS A CHOICE IN THE 21st CENTURY! by Joan E. Gosier An excerpt from "Cotton Pickin' Paycheck-A 21st Century Journal of Escape from Slavery" I cannot allow my gift to take a back

If it looks like a lying liar and talks like a lying liar, odds are, it’s a liar. Remember that story Bobby Jindal told in his big speech Tuesday night — about how during Katrina, he stood shoulder

The weather is mild. Yet the skies have once again opened to reveal it's tears to us. So many tears of the fallen, of those still standing, of those on their way up and those who can't go any lower. I