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There is power in CHANGE! It is amazing to know that our lives can be made better by our own efforts. The good news is that with a change in perspective there can be innovation that results in personal growth and success! Join... more

While in a Birmingham, Alabama jail cell, in 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., pinned a historical letter. He entitled it ?Why We Can't Wait?? Motivated by the national presence of social economic inequity and oppression all across... more

At the conclusion of our last episode a very significant question was raised… ?How do you get residents of urban neighborhoods to be unified?? The premise to the question is based in one of the six suggestions shared by the show's... more

All across Urban America there is a socioeconomic tide looming. The nature of the tide is the gentrifying of Urban cities. Some people are benefitting from massive economic growth while others are going under. The old adage ?A... more

During the last episode (April 10, 2018) of TALK-STRAIGHT we shared a background of the tragedy that hit the small size city of Ferguson, Missouri on August 9, 2014. As pointed out then there is now a brighter day and future for... more

Often when the media, law enforcement, community activist and people in general speak of the tragedy that transpired in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014, they tend to speak from the perspective of pain and loss. However, there is a more powerful... more

Because it is vitally important that young people learn the difference between the destructive nature of a riot versus an organized protest, we pick up today's dialogue from the powerful discussion on the ?Holy Week Rising? of 1968 and... more

April 4, 2018 marks the 50th year after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis Tennessee, on the balcony of the Loraine Motel. After his death violence erupted all across Urban America. In the wake of an... more

Marriage is the institutional structure for healthy family development. The family is the building block for any community. Unfortunately, far too many home structures in Urban America are guided by tenets of distrust in the seriousness... more

A ?Doctrine? is a formal or informal set of beliefs shared by people of a common experience. Accordingly, Urban America has a specific doctrine that is common despite geographic location. This doctrine drives the mentality of self defeat and... more

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