Author: Kintsugi

By DAN GOLDBERG 05/25/2020 Commander Daniel W. Armstrong, a tall, handsome, aristocratic-looking man with an upright gait and an immaculate uniform, looked the 16 black men over. He was the white officer in charge of the black camp, a man whose willingness to work with African American enlistees earned praise from the higher-ups in Washington. “Do you…

Read More The Golden Thirteen: The Forgotten Story of How 13 Black Men Broke the Navy’s Toughest Color Barrier

By Precious Fondren For most of her life, Debra Willett had a vague idea about who her grandfather was. She knew he had fought in France in World War I at some point. But she didn’t grasp the importance of what her grandfather, who died in 1956, had accomplished until she began doing some genealogy research…

Read More Honoring the Forgotten Harlem Hellfighters: An Exceptional Unit of Black Soldiers

Military.com | By Bethanne Kelly Patrick The opportunity for African-Americans to enlist and serve in the Marine Corps came in 1942 as the Corps began to recruit qualified African-American men. The men who enlisted in response completed recruit training at Montford Point, North Carolina during a time and place where racism and segregation were a part of everyday…

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From Deseret.com, news for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints On our mind today is the American Family Survey, an annual nationally representative study that looks at how families live, love and prosper or struggle amid current events. The American Family Survey is an annual, nationwide study of 3,000 Americans by the Deseret News and the…

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October 15, 2021 at 1:11 pm EDT By WSBTV.com News Staff ATLANTA — A 95-year-old actress who appeared in Marvel blockbuster “Black Panther” has died. Dorothy Steel was 95. She died Friday morning at her home in Detroit. “She went out strong,” her publicist said. Prior to her death, she lived in Atlanta for many years.…

Read More Dorothy Steel, 95-year-old actress who played tribal elder in ‘Black Panther,’ dies

Who Is Eckhart Tolle? He is a German-Canadian spiritual teacher and self-help author best known as the author of The Power of Now and A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose. The books have received a wide range of praise and criticism from reviewers. In 2000, Carter Phipps wrote that “Tolle’s clear writing and the obvious depth of his…

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By Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Sept. 30, 2021 (HealthDay News) – For people with diabetes who have a stroke, there may be an ideal blood sugar target to prevent another one or a heart attack, a South Korean study finds. To determine average blood sugar levels over the past two to three months, the study team used the hemoglobin A1C test. The study included…

Read More Targeted Blood Sugar Level With Diabetes May Help Prevent a 2nd Stroke