Penny Posts
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 […]
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 […]
“Why don’t you make it a rose?”
This is a re-blog of a 2011 post. I needed to be reminded of my own words! So, I’m standing in the check-out line at Publix: my favorite grocer of southern region fame. A slender, young black child with a head full of twisted knots observes my left wrist and blurts, ” I like your […]
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