Woman abandoned as newborn searches for answers
STEPHANIE FARR, The Philadelphia Inquirer
July 3, 2021
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) On her fifth day of crying over the death of her friend to COVID-19 this year, Cheryl Edwards realized she was dealing with too much grief and sought counseling.
She expected to talk about death. Instead, the therapist asked Edwards about the beginning of her own life.
“I didn’t realize how damaged and hurt I was until I started talking about it,” Edwards said. “She forced me to dig deep within myself and I hated what I saw because I never dealt with it.”
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I’m thrilled about the latest Billie Holiday revival. The film UNITED STATES VS. BILLIE HOLIDAY, starring Andra Day, has fueled much of the interest. (You can stream it on Hulu). I haven’t seen it, but I understand that Holiday known by music lovers as “Lady Day” is portrayed as a civil rights hero, in part because of a song she recorded called STRANGE FRUIT. For years, the song was banned from radio airplay. It graphically depicts the lynching of blacks in the South (… ”Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze. Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees ….” It’s a song that’s difficult to listen to without being outraged at the violence perpetrated against blacks.
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Published February 19, 2021
Published February 19, 2021
For the entire month of February, NBC will showcase essays about Black Americans who pioneered change in United States history during the Civil Rights Movement that led to nationwide desegregation. Pioneers include those who led local efforts to desegregate schools, professionals who forged ahead to become luminaries within their industries, and advocates who stoked the wave of change head-on in the nation s bid for racial justice and equality.
Elizabeth Williams, Former Nurse
You just felt like [being rejected for jobs for being Black] is the way life is but I have to keep pushing ahead in order to get done what I want to do, regardless of what the system might be telling me.
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The contributions made by African and Black American medical professionals to health and wellness are many. While determining just how many lives these trailblazers saved is impossible, we know that without their imagination, knowledge, and desire to help others many lives would have been lost. Since it is Black History Month, now is the perfect time to recognize and celebrate some of the numerous contributions the Black community has afforded the medical industry and the world overall.
Around 1716 – Onesimus
Onesimus is an African slave who, in 1706, is gifted to Cotton Mather, the Puritan minister. Mather recognizes that Onesimus is exceptional and considers him an individual with intelligence. As such, Mather begins instructing Onesimus, teaching him how to read and how to write, thus ensuring that Onesimus represents the Mather household well.