Penny Dickerson

Word, Shout, Song: Lorenzo Dow Turner Exhibit

Word, Shout, Song exhibit in Florida through December November 28, 2013  Filed under METRO http://flcourier.com/2013/11/28/word-shout-song-exhibit-in-florida-through-december/ Collection documents three interconnected cultures across three continents BY PENNY DICKERSON SPECIAL TO THE FLORIDA COURIER The historical contributions to language by Lorenzo Dow Turner debuted on Sept. 12 at the Ritz Theatre and Museum in Jacksonville in a traveling […]

The Kinsey Collection: African American Family Debuts Cultural Exhibit at Walt Disney World

Click link to original article at ebony.com https://pennydickersonwrites.com/2013/12/09/word-shout-song-lorenzo-dow-turner-exhibit/ A Whole New World: The Kinsey Collection An art and history loving African American Family debuts their coveted  collection at Walt Disney World By Penny Dickerson “The Walls” from the Kinsey Collection If the art of sharing were worth its weight  in gold, the amassed cultural treasures […]

African Americans and Cancer: The ugly truth

 Welcome to the second entry in my series:  African Americans and Cancer: The ugly truth. This narrative follows the first subtopic: Dispelling Myths. What better to follow myth than truth? My passion, perspective, and guided expertise is fueled by my own cancer survival which convinced me that  medical racial disparities exist because both cancer and […]

Jennifer Hudson’s Wealth and Weightloss for Lunch

http://speakingofwomenshealth.com/about/ I’ve got a great recommendation for you to endeavor next week. Spunk up your lunch hour by supporting public broadcasting and also obtain new information regarding a very important aspect of your health: weight loss (gasp!) By now, we have all witnessed the new and improved Jennifer Hudson of Dream Girls fame emerge high […]

Great to be “GRATEFUL”

grate·ful  [greyt-fuhl] adjective warmly or deeply appreciative of kindness or benefits received; thankful: I am grateful to you for your help. expressing or actuated by gratitude: a grateful letter. pleasing to the mind or senses; agreeable or welcome; refreshing: a grateful breeze. My emotions have been extraordinarily unpredictable this past month. Without sounding like a […]

“The Disparity Despair”

Medical disparities: Confronting race in care | jacksonville.com. Disparity is such a powerful word. I phonetically love the wicked hiss of the s, but the prefix dis (or should it be diss?), really says it all. I also appreciate how a unified cabal of urban slang warriors decided one more haughty “s” should alter the […]