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THE REAWAKENING OF A NEW SENSE OF BELONGING BY: GEORGE ADDISON All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race: racism, religion, where we grew up, class, socioeconomic status. What makes us be so selfish and prideful? What keeps us from wanting to help the next man? What […]

Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don’t do that. Some day we’ll be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They […]

BY: GEORGE ADDISON “Women endure entire lifetimes of these indignities—in the form of catcalls, groping, assault, oppression. These things injure us. They sap our strength. Some of the cuts are so small they’re barely visible. Others are huge and gaping, leaving scars that never heal. Either way, they accumulate. We carry them everywhere, to and […]

BY: George Addison “We lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day. If a mysterious virus suddenly started killing eight of our children every day, America would mobilize teams of doctors and public health officials. We would move heaven and earth until we found a way to protect our children. But not with […]

Trends, Travel, Film, History and Books provide readers with information that might be off the beaten path of their traditional news sources. Whether its innovation, unique travel, classic or new age films and documentaries, looking at history from a different perspective or discovering new and established authors, it brings a fresh look to things that […]

Trends, Travel, Film, History and Books provide readers with information that might be off the beaten path of their traditional news sources. Whether its innovation, unique travel, classic or new age films and documentaries, looking at history from a different perspective or discovering new and established authors, it brings a fresh look to things that are either […]

Trends, Travel, Film, History and Books provide readers with information that might be off the beaten path of their traditional news sources. Whether its innovation, unique travel, classic or new age films and documentaries, looking at history from a different perspective or discovering new and established authors, it brings a fresh look to things that […]

BY; GEORGE L. ADDISON, JR. Trends, Travel, Film, History and Books provide readers with information that might be off the beaten path of their traditional news sources. Whether its innovation, unique travel, classic or new age films and documentaries, looking at history from a different perspective or discovering new and established authors, it brings a […]

BY: GEORGE L. ADDISON, JR. “For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand […]

By:  George Addison First Published as “Dreamland Burning http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1057219 on CNN iReport Play Revisits Horrors of Tulsa Oklahoma’s Historic “Greenwood District” Riot As the nation plans to celebrate another Memorial Day… a number of Americans Black, Brown and White will be hearing for the first time about the atrocities committed against the Black residents of Tulsa, […]