One of the things I’ve been working on is m family history. Unfortunately, I don’t remember all of the stories I heard when I was young, and many of those who could tell me are now gone on. So here are some places to look in addition to ancestry.com, which I also use. Family Search…
Read More DO YOU KNOW YOUR PERSONAL HISTORY? AFRICAN AMERICAN GENEALOGY RESOURCESWearing earrings from Oprah, and standing on the shoulders of Maya Angelou. You go, girl. You go.
Read More Amanda Gorman at the InaugurationTo be made in your air fryer, or oven. 1 pound fresh green beans 1 cup panko bread crumbs 1/2 cup parmesan cheese 1 T garlic powder or garlic salt 2 eggs, well beaten 1/2 cup all-purpose flour cooking spray String your beans and snip the ends so they are about the same length. Rinse…
Read More Green Bean Fries – for my friend CarolBy Fernanda Santos FEBRUARY 3, 2021 It’s exhausting to be a widow and single mother — and not just because of the responsibilities. For me, fatigue comes from having to constantly engage with complete strangers who don’t know what to make of a woman without a man. I’m sure that their comments and I’m-so-sorrys are well-intentioned.…
Read More I didn’t see the insidious ways women are held back — until I became a widowBy Jessica Furniss January 19, 2021 Use melted butter instead of oil. (I thought everyone knew this one!) Add mix-ins like cookies and candies. (This one, too!!!) Underbake, just slightly. Read more HERE.
Read More Six Sneaky Ways To Make Brownie Mix Taste HomemadeOn February 24, 2021, Google will delete all of your Google Play Music data. This includes your music library with any uploads, purchases and anything you’ve added from Google Play Music. After this date, there will be no way to recover it. You can download your Google Play Music library and data with Google Takeout or transfer…
Read More Google Play Music data will be deleted soonYou don’t know?!!! Here is a place to get started. Tropes in Entertainment Media: “Magical Negro”.
Read More What is a magical negro?Stimulus payments help some, but beans make a lot of food for not so much money. A bowl of beans, a big piece of cornbread, what else can you ask for? Navy Bean Soup 1 (16 ounce) package dried navy beans1 (14.5 ounce) can fire-roasted diced tomatoes1 onion, chopped2 stalks celery, chopped1 clove garlic, minced1…
Read More Navy Bean SoupBy Adrienne Gaffney Jan. 30, 2021 It’s not an understatement to describe the events of the past year as historic, and particularly for Black Americans. The nation elected its first Black vice president, a woman, and a graduate of a historically Black university and Georgia sent its first Black senator to the Capitol. (Both of these…
Read More Honor and Learn This Black History Month42,842,000 = The Black (only) population in the United States in 2019, about 13% of the total US population. 48.2 million = The number of black people in the US, black only or in combination, in 2019. 2.1 million = The number of Black military veterans in the United States nationwide in 2019. 87.9% =…
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