Taming your mind is one of the hardest skill to learn but pays off in the longer run. Usually this involves...
Inspiration Articles
Letter from a Region in My Mind
I underwent, during the summer that I became fourteen, a prolonged religious crisis. I use “religious” in the common,...
There’s no emotion we ought to think harder about than anger
There’s no emotion we ought to think harder and more clearly about than anger. Anger greets most of us every day – in...
What are some good habits of very wealthy people?
This is the wrong question. It's upside down. But ok. Another friend of mine wrote a good post on this topic. But I know him and how he made...
Veil Nebula Supernova Remnant
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled in stunning detail a small section of the Veil Nebula - expanding remains of a massive star that exploded...
Hubble Sees a Galactic Sunflower | NASA
The arrangement of the spiral arms in the galaxy Messier 63, seen here in an image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, recall the pattern at...
Hubble Peers into a Galactic Maelstrom
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows Messier 96, a spiral galaxy just over 35 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo (The...
The Meaning of Serena Williams
On tennis and black excellence. There is no more exuberant winner than Serena Williams. She leaps into the air, she laughs, she grins, she pumps her...
Julian Bond – Warrior Patriot
He was a revolutionary. Those who knew him best also describe Julian Bond as a civil rights icon, a pioneer, a poet and a national treasure. Bond,...
Eva Longoria’s Versus: Rebel On Ice – Surya Bonaly
In the 1980s and '90s, competitive figure skating enthralled me. The sport’s balletic arm movements and glittery-glam unitards, along with its...
We Wear the Mask
We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes, This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we...
Black America has been playing by white America’s rules. If we want reconciliation, it’s time for white America to share the burden.
For too long, after tragedies like Charleston, black America has had to mute our unspoken anger. We must be able to express it, and white America...