I read with great interest the New York Times article detailing Michelle Obama’s lineage from slave and slave owner. The article follows the history of her descendant, Melvinia Shields. Melvinia... Read more >>

We’ve all learned about the courageous acts of former slaves in American history like Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman—but while the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 officially put... Read more >>

Sex trafficking according to the United States government is the “recruitment of harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purposes of a commercial sex... Read more >>

As a socially conscious individual, the majority of shopping choices should be locally produced goods. Shopping locally supports businesses in the community. However, what happens when you live in an... Read more >>

Jesusla was barely six years when she came to live in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Jesusla’s mother had become ill right before she gave birth to her and had returned to her native town of Tomozeau a... Read more >>

During a recent telephone conversation I had with one of my sisters we reminisced on our childhood and the life we left behind in Haiti. Since the recent earthquake, I must say that Haiti often comes... Read more >>

1. Human trafficking is described as the recruitment, transportation, harboring, or receipt of people for the purposes of slavery, prostitution, forced labor (including working off debts), and... Read more >>

Recently, I watched a video on Alexyss Tylor commenting on the affects of slavery today. She said that slave-owners taught the black men to have sex with many different women to make more slave... Read more >>

I knew a girl named Charlotte when I was a child growing up in Haiti. I’m not sure how old Charlotte was, but I think, she was older than I was. She had a lot more responsibility that I did and... Read more >>

1. Ethics 2. Common sense 3. Financial education 4. Basic bookkeeping skills 5. Reduction of bank fees 6. Reduce rate of high school dropouts 7. Interest in the study of science 8. Computer... Read more >>