"There were times where we didn't have a roof over our head, but we had a car. We didn't have a place to stay so we would come and sleep in this parking lot."
A South Los Angeles student is celebrating the incredible accomplishment of receiving 65 college acceptance letters.
After experiencing homelessness in his youth, he now plans to study industrial engineering at Columbia University.
Nobody really tells you that raising grown kids comes with its own kind of heartbreak. 💔 To every parent learning how to love deeply and let go gracefully, God bless our babies, and God help our hearts too. We’re gonna be alright. 💛
We need u to move! Stop standing still, being stagnant & void of progression. You've got to move. Idleness ain't your strong suit or a positive attribute of yours. MOVE Right now with a mentality of Success. MOVE! #CoachPrime
Queen Charlotte Was Black, History Doesn’t Lie
Adjoa Andoh and Golda Rosheuvel set the record straight: Queen Charlotte was a woman of colour. Her lips, nose and skin were mocked; she was powdered to erase her identity. This isn’t fiction, it’s history finally told properly, stripped of centuries of erasure.
My dad still sends money to my mom randomly even though they broke up 28 years ago. He gave her $300 last Mother’s Day. And so one day I asked him “Why do you still do that after all these years? Because he has rebuilt his life long ago with someone new and I was just really curious about his motive quite honestly. This man answered “ My father always told me, if you ever have a kid with a woman, you owe her for life “.
Why is no one talking about this?
A 21-year-old college student, Kyle Bassinga, was found HANGING FROM A TREE in a Cobb County park in Marietta, Georgia.
Kyle’s Facebook page shows a recent altercation with a police officer where he was unlawfully detained on campus.
Cobb County Police are saying there is no evidence of foul play, and are treating it like a suicide.
You heard that right.
The story is that a young, smart black man walked into a park on his own and hung himself.
I hope the family demands a full investigation.
In 1974, Stevie Wonder became the first Black artist to win the Grammy for “Album of the Year”, setting a precedent that reshaped what recognition at the highest level could look like.