Resilience: Elizabeth Edwards’ Story of Pain & Perseverance
Elizabeth Edwards wrote Resilience not long after the world found out about both her husband John Edwards’ affair and Mrs. Edwards’ impending death from breast cancer. The preceding years had been...
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Everyone suffers setbacks. For some these setbacks fade into the background of their unfolding lives. For the risk-takers in Renee & Don Martin’s Risk Takers: 16 Women and Men Share their...
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Black History Month: Georgia Douglas Johnson—The Ordeal Ho! my brother, Pass me not by so scornfully I’m doing this living of being black, Perhaps I bear your own life-pack, And heavy, heavy is the...
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BHM Entrepreneurs: Annie Turnbo Malone (1869-1957) A Pioneer in St Louis Annie Turnbo Malone was quite likely America’s first female self-made millionaire. She pioneered the development and manufacture...
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Key Lessons Do not let personal circumstances be a check on your imagination or ambitions Create and support community to increase personal resilience and to have greater impact Look for opportunities...
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Black History Month: Gwendolyn B. Bennett—To A Dark Girl I love you for your brownness, And the rounded darkness of your breast, I love you for the breaking sadness in your voice And shadows where...
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