Commit To Yourself
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Commitment: a pledge, to bind, a promise, obligating oneself, engaging
Usually around this time we make New Year’s resoluti ...
Posted Wednesday, January 1st 2020 at 9:35AM
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A brief view of our recent visit to the historic Mount Harmon Plantation in Earlville Maryland. Mount Harmon is a restored 200 acre former tobacco plantation that was worked by enslaved Africans in America, bonded white indentured servants and tenant ...
Posted Saturday, December 28th 2019 at 2:34PM
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The Value of Kwanzaa
Junious Ricardo Stanton
From December 26th to January 1, millions of people around the world participate and experience Kwanzaa, a celebration based upon ...
Posted Thursday, December 26th 2019 at 10:57PM
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The Significance of the Winter Solstice
Junious Ricardo Stanton
“The solstice happens at the same instant for all of us, everywhere on Earth. In 2019, the December solstic ...
Posted Monday, December 16th 2019 at 11:14AM
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Don’t Block Your Blessings
Junious Ricardo Stanton
“God gives nothing to those whose arms are crossed.” Bambara prove ...
Posted Monday, December 9th 2019 at 1:12PM
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African Divination, Complimentary Ways of Knowing
Junious Ricardo Stanton
“Spirituality centered wisdom stands for both justice and dignity and it cannot be ...
Posted Sunday, November 17th 2019 at 11:56PM
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It’s Time for Real Change
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Many AmeriKKKans are coming to the inescapable conclusion their culture is creating a psychological ...
Posted Monday, November 11th 2019 at 8:25PM
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Avoid Exclusionary, Either or Thinking
Junious Ricardo Stanton
There is a video going around featuring multi-millionaire songwriter, model, and actor ...
Posted Wednesday, November 6th 2019 at 10:26AM
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Re-embracing the African View of Reality
Junious Ricardo Stanton
“Indeed, African social structures and cultural traditions are infused with a spirituality that ca ...
Posted Monday, November 4th 2019 at 11:54AM
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Reality As Seen Through Traditional African Cosmology
Junious Ricardo Stanton
“Though the (African) cosmologies appear to differ according to geography and regional histories, t ...
Posted Sunday, October 27th 2019 at 12:31PM
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African Cosmology and Concepts of Reality
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Our African ancestors postulated the universe was teleological meaning it was d ...
Posted Monday, October 21st 2019 at 12:15PM
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Invisible Warriors, a Documentary about Black Women During WWII
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Last Saturday my wife and I attended a screening of a documentary e ...
Posted Monday, October 14th 2019 at 2:02PM
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Let’s Rekindle Our Oral Tradition
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Last weekend I attended the twenty-fifth annual International Locks Conference and I got ...
Posted Monday, October 7th 2019 at 12:19PM
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Strangled By Debt
Junious Ricardo Stanton
“One of the most damaging effects of rising debt is rapidly growing interest costs. Under current law, CBO projects th ...
Posted Sunday, September 29th 2019 at 11:23AM
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Bill Pickett Rodeo Celebrates 35th Anniversary
Junious Ricardo Stanton
When you think of Cowboys, the West and rodeos do Black people come ...
Posted Monday, September 23rd 2019 at 1:44PM
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Nine-Eleven Eighteen Years Later
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Last week we commemorated the eighteenth anniversary of nine-eleven. I don’t refer to them as attacks because there has been no thorough inv ...
Posted Monday, September 16th 2019 at 2:11PM
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What Is Epigenetics?
Junious Ricardo Stanton
“Epigenetics is the study of changes in organisms caused by mo ...
Posted Tuesday, September 10th 2019 at 10:28AM
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Labor Day and The Decline of Organized Labor
Junious Ricardo Stanton
“In the 2015–16 election cycle, business outspent unions 16-to-1 –$3.4bn to $213m – according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. Each year all of the nat ...
Posted Monday, September 2nd 2019 at 8:57AM
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1619
Junious Ricardo Stanton
“About the last of August came in a Dutch man of warre the sold us twenty Negars” John Rolfe Jamestown Colony 1619
This year marks the four hundred anniversary of kidnapped Africans being brought to the shores ...
Posted Sunday, August 25th 2019 at 2:42PM
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Don’t Allow The 1% to Make A Fools of You
Junious Ricardo Stanton
The only way an extremely small percentage of the world’s population can rob, and hoard most of the wealth and manipulate and control the masses to work against their own best ...
Posted Monday, August 19th 2019 at 1:15PM
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Unintended Consequences of Trump’s Trade Wars
Junious Ricardo Stanton
“Vietnam has benefited from a surge in exports and foreign investment as businesse ...
Posted Monday, July 22nd 2019 at 7:41PM
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Tariffs In An Era of Economic Decline
Junious Ricardo Stanton
“A tariff is a tax on imports, often known as a duty or a trade barrier. The purpose of a tariff is to protect domestic production and jobs, though economists say other domestic sect ...
Posted Monday, July 15th 2019 at 12:29PM
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A Novel Approach to Addressing America’s Bullying Crisis
Junious Ricardo Stanton
I recently attended my wife’s maternal family reunion in Patterson Louisiana. This was our ...
Posted Monday, July 8th 2019 at 10:36AM
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Juneteenth 2019
Junious Ricardo Stanton
As part of the forth annual Philadelphia Juneteenth celebration the whole of 52nd Street in West Philadelphia has been officially renamed and rededicate ...
Posted Sunday, June 23rd 2019 at 7:27PM
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