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The Art of Healing: How I Use Poetry to Heal and Empower Young Minds!

Mental health challenges impact everyone, but young Black men face unique struggles. For many, the pressure to conform to limited stereotypes, coupled with a lack of role models who reflect their experiences, can lead to feelings of isolation and self-doubt. In fact, Black adults are 20 percent more likely to report serious psychological distress than […]

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By 1857 “Bleeding Kansas’ and the Dred Scott Decision had intensified sectional tensions over slavery and moved the nation closer to civil war. Against that backdrop, Charles Lenox Remond, on July 10, 1857, addressed the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society where he joined a growing chorus of

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