Dear NPR Executives

~~~ In the blog post Do We Care?, I hit on the main points of financially supporting public radio and television. However, when you are disappointed in any organization whether it is an elected official, retail business, or a public radio broadcast group, it is important to speak up and speak out. Below is the […]

Mother’s Day Musings

~~~ Mother’s Day use to be one of my of my favorite days, until 2011. This is the year that my mom passed. I still had my grandmother to be with and love; however, not having my mom that first Mother’s Day was and is still painful. My grandmother passed a few weeks after Mother’s […]

Girls Around The World

~~~ Every girl on this planet that we inhabit should be afforded the right to an education. Every girl should be able to feel safe and not live in fear of being hurt or taken from their family. A little over one and half weeks ago the news of 270 Nigerian girls, abducted from their […]

Food Angels

~~~ When I was a child my mom told me to always be kind to people, especially service workers. People who worked in the kitchens and did janitorial work she said would always be helpful. From time to time to make extra money she would do some light housework for a friend. Her belief was […]

Photo Collage: 2013 Year In Review

A photo often says more than a full written page. In thinking through the the events important to me in 2013, I consolidated to four photo collages. Family, Sorority, & Political Activism as well as some main news items are the pinnacle of my year. So as promised in the 2013 Year In Review blog […]

“Kidney By Christmas” to Support Transplant for Mayor Julia Nelson

~~~ Contributed by: Leshia Lutsey, CEO of Creative Concepts, LLC Manning, S.C. – “Kidney By Christmas”, a statewide outreach campaign, has kicked off in order to support Mayor Julia Nelson of Manning, S.C. After suffering for many years with polycystic kidney disease (PKD), Mayor Nelson learned in late November that her condition had worsened and […]

Still Striving To Overcome

~~~ Today commemorates the 50th Anniversary of what is now called ‘March on Washington’. In 1963 the event was advertised as ‘March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom’. It was organized by a collaboration of leaders across various social and civic activist organizations. The march was decades in the making, even before the Montgomery Bus […]

My Granddaddy Hamilton

~~~ Today is the day when we celebrate father’s in the United States. I’ve highlighted my dad in past Father’s Day inspired post but today I am paying homage specifically to my granddaddy Hamilton. Due to various reasons, which I choose not to discuss today I had four grandfathers but granddaddy Hamilton was at the […]

For Nelson Mandela

~~~ As a high school student, I was made aware of the conditions in South Africa upon reading “All Things Fall Apart” written by Chinua Achebe’s. It was the first time I heard the word apartheid but it would be a few years later before I truly understood what apartheid meant. While attending the University […]

Chocolate Diversity

~~~ While attending the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), I learned that my race didn’t dictate my grades. Hard work along with good professors (shout out to Professor Ein, now a Dept. Head) helped determine this fact. I earned a solid ‘A’ in one of the toughest mathematics courses at UIC, differential equations. Diffy […]