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Juneteenth is an annual holiday celebrated on June 19th in the United States. It commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African...

I currently am employed full-time for a training and technical assistance company, creating and providing unique opportunities to learn...

Beginnings can be hard, you never know the individual circumstances of anyone who is starting their new "beginning". For me, my beginning...

By Roicia Banks, MSW When reading about "intergroup conflict", I could not help but think about African American women and the social and...

By Roicia Banks, MSW As I was reading "Social Conflict: Escalation, Stalemate, and Settlement" by Dean Pruitt and Sung Hee Kim, chapter...

When I was first presented with Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs I was 22 years old living alone in Houston, Texas. I had just entered my...