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Personality: Robin Ann Brewster
Spotlight on Leadership Metro Richmond’s board chairwoman
A key factor in good leadership is being “a servant leader first and a good listener who seeks to learn and understand and whose actions demonstrate integrity, empathy and inclusion.” That’s the perspective and leading principle of Robin Ann Brewster, board chairwoman of Leadership Metro Richmond.
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Moon memories: Reflections on Apollo 11 on 50th anniversary of historic landing
Dr. Carroll H. Ellis Jr. remembers Apollo 11 vividly. Though he was only 14 years old on July 20, 1969, the geoscientist can still recall the excitement 50 years ago when American astronauts landed on the moon and took their first steps. The technical skill it took then is impressive even to this day.
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The perks of owning an American classic car
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Nothing can compare to the nostalgia you feel when you’re sitting at a stoplight and you see a well preserved El Dorado drive pass you. Everybody is looking.
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Henrico County Board of Supervisors district elections
Candidates and Q&A's for Henrico Board Of Supervisors
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Black history Month calendar
From films to speakers to talent shows and panel workshops, area organizations, churches, schools and museums are holding a plethora of events in February to celebrate Black History Month.
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Post-Obama: The Future of the Black Body Politic After the Age of Obama
When then Senator Barack Obama turned into President Barack Obama after his historic 2008 election it had all the pageantry, zeal and aura of a religious revelation for many. It was something a long time coming -- a win after a war that has been on-going for decades, centuries. But for all the pomp and excitement, it was short-lived. Once the party was over, on came the political hangover.
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Black Girls RUN!
Black Girls RUN! was created in 2009 by Toni Carey and Ashley Hicks in an effort to tackle the growing obesity epidemic in the African-American community and provide encouragement and resources to both new and veteran runners.
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She's An Icon: Top 10 Black Women Who Are Making Black History Today
We all (hopefully) know the stellar history of our fore-mothers like Sojourner Truth, Phyllis Wheatley, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Fannie Lou Hammer, Dorothy Height and Lena Horne. But there are black women making moves today who are likely to join those names in our history books and become legends in their own right.
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10 auto-loving quotes from a man who devoted his life to car design
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Edward T. Welburn – most of us in the automotive industry may have heard the name – but let me introduce you to the legend. Welburn has been a General Motors employee for 35 years. He’s the current and first GM Vice President of Global Design. Yes, they actually created a VP position and title for him.
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The Message in the Natural Hair Movement
"It's just hair." This is what people say who try to convince themselves that their hair doesn't somehow speak for them. As if its style, color and texture don't speak volumes about their personality, creativity, or disposition in general. While I reject the notion that hair completely defines a person, I strongly believe that it says something about one's state of mind and perhaps about society as a whole.
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How to Redefine What It Means to be Beautiful
"Beautiful" - adjective - pleasing the senses or mind aesthetically. Of a very high standard; excellent.
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Is It Necessary To Celebrate Black History Month?
We don’t have a White history month, so why is there a Black history month? Is It Necessary to celebrate Black History Month? Read on...
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How Are Reality TV Shows Affecting Society’s Perception Of Black Women?
While Black women are clearly underrepresented in films and on prime time comedies and dramas, the same cannot be said of our representation on reality television. The sheer number of reality programs on television today makes it difficult to determine if we are in some way “overrepresented,” however, Black women have been entertaining American households through this genre from its inception and continue to do so today.
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Dancer Misty Copeland inspires new generation of ballerinas
“This is for the little brown girls,” writes Misty Copeland in the prologue of her New York Times bestselling memoir, Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina,
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"Chitlin’s From Slave food to Delicacy | The Black American Kitchen
However you feel about them it is never dry or ho-hum. Either you love Chitlin's and the way that they taste or you cannot stand the smell or even the thought of what you may be eating. Everybody feels strongly one way or the other about the Southern Soul Food delicacy. Let's get into what they are where they came from and potentially where Chitlin’s are going.
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Voting Rights: Under Threat Then, Still Under Threat Now
Georgia resident Dorothy Cooper had been voting for more than 50 years with no problem, but in 2012 she almost couldn’t. It was all due to the new voter ID law Georgia had passed under the guise of fighting voter fraud, but critics of the law said its real purpose was to make it harder for individuals like Cooper – the black, the poor and the elderly – to vote.
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To Assimilate or Infiltrate: The War for (and Against) Being Undeniably Black
When I was in the 9th grade I wrote a cartoon strip where the heroine’s name was Daphne. A white male classmate of mine who enjoyed reading my stories immediately complained that I’d give the girl a weird “black” name. I, politely, explained to him that the name was pronounced “Daff-nee” and that Daphne was a name from Greek mythology. Or, if that was too deep for him, a white female character from the cartoon “Scooby Doo.” No matter, to my “it’s all black names” to me friend. It was a weird name with a weird spelling, so it was a weird “black name.”
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Grandmaster Flash
There are lots of stories about the birth of jazz and the beginning of rock n’ roll, but hip-hop has founding fathers: one of them is DJ Grandmaster Flash. In the early 70’s Joseph Saddler was living in the South Bronx and studying electrical engineering.
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Hank Willis Thomas
Hank Willis Thomas, a prominent photo conceptual artist, grew up surrounded by art and culture.
