2026

Mental Health and The Great Divide Across Generations Part 1: Older Adults

The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that the world’s population is aging rapidly. In 2023, 1.1 billion people worldwide were 60 or older. That figure is projected to nearly double to 2.1 billion by 2050. By the late 2060s, the number of people aged 60 or older will reach 2.5 billion. The number of people

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Book Review: Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

I bought this book about three years ago. It rolled around from one part of the basement to another, finding itself in boxes to be donated, but it never quite made it out of the house. It wasn’t until I read Eddie Glaude Jr.’s Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul that

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Book Review: The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Uncover the Shocking Story of How 12.5 Million Africans Were Sold as Slaves & Sent to the New World

Like most books on the transatlantic slave trade, this book highlights the fact that slavery was common in Africa and other parts of the world. Prisoners captured in battle were commonly enslaved by their captors. It covers the Arab slave trade, which preceded the transatlantic slave trade by hundreds of years. It also delves into

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Book Review: Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital

Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital by Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove is a detailed, decade-by-decade walk through of the history of changes in the area that would become the home of the nation’s capital: Washington, D.C. It tracks the evolution of the D.C. area from the

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Book Review: The Slave Trade in Africa: The History and Legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and East African Slave Trade across the Indian Ocean

This short read is one of the many accounts of the transatlantic slave trade and the culpability of African nations. It deals with both the transatlantic slave trade to the “Americas” and the East African/Indian Ocean slave trade fueled by “European greed.” It fueled the plantation economies of the new world and created a “human”

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Book Review: Crusade for Justice – The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells

Be forewarned that as the forward says, this is not your typical autobiography. If you’re looking for splash and drama, you’ll be sadly disappointed. This book is more of a chronicle of events of a remarkable woman. Written matter-of-factly, it’s a journey through tumultuous times. It is written as any journalist would, answering the cornerstone

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