Stay-at-home dads. When most of us hear the term, we’re likely to think of comical media portrayals of a bumbling, clueless man who happens to fall into full-time parenting by accident. Think of movies like “Mr. Mom,” or “Daddy Day Care.” Stay-at-home dads are the punchline of the joke. But that is starting to change, [...]
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Despite knowing such good times would result, deciding to attend a wedding is always a conflicted process for me. There are two reasons for this: 1. I do not believe in marriage; 2. I find offensive many of the traditions of the American wedding. It’s not that I don’t believe in celebrating love, or that I don’t want to participate in this celebration. Rather, I take issue with much of what marriage and weddings stand for in our contemporary culture and in the history of our country.
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The Harris Neck Land Trust is an organization compromised of 70 African-American families and community members dedicated to returning 2,687 acres of land taken from African-American families in 1942.
Harris Neck, GA was once home to a group of Gullah Geechee people, descendants of West African slaves in South Carolina and Georgia. The Gullah have preserved a significant part [...]
Dorothy Height left behind a legacy of activism when she passed on Tuesday morning April 20, 2010. She lived for almost an entire century and has played a major role in shaping what this country has become. Dorothy Height fulfilled her desire of always wanting to work towards justice while she was alive. Height worked [...]
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