Author: resolutewoman
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A woman lynched
Finally, in March 2024, Dallas is dedicating a sculpture to honor men lynched in the city between 1853 and 1920. Men and one woman. Jane Elkins, an enslaved woman, was hanged in 1853 after her conviction for killing her white owner as he attempted to rape her.
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Opal Lee’s new home
Opal Lee, the grandmother of Juneteenth, was a young girl when white supremacists burned down her family’s home in Fort Worth. Now, in 2024, 85 years later, Lee, 97, will have a new home on the same piece of land where her family’s home once stood. Texas Capital Bank, Trinity Habitat for Humanity and HistoryMaker…
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Fresh air and sunshine
I went to the Dallas Arboretum yesterday on a sunny day and saw many of the 500,00 spring blossoms on display. “Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat,” Laura Ingalis Wilder once said. I like fresh air and sunshine and agree that they’re hard to beat—but, for sure, colorful tulips…
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Happy Spring!
“I am thankful that, in a troubled world, no calamity can prevent the return of spring,” Helen Keller once said.
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Miracles
“There are only two ways to live your life,” Albert Einstein once said. “One is as if nothing is a miracle. The other is though everything is a miracle.”
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The power of the law
“It may be true that the law cannot make man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important,” said Martin Luther King Jr.
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Your power
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any,” says the author Alice Walker.
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Starving in Gaza
Nearly two thirds of families in Gaza eat only one meal a day, and, in 95 percent of households, adults restrict their intake to make sure small children can eat. These very disturbing statistics come from a February 19, 2024, report from the Global Nutrition Group, an aid partnership led by UNICEF. I found the…
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Nothing new under the sun
“Now, nearly two and a half centuries after the Founding, the religious and political climate in America would seem a prime exhibit to support the Old Testament’s lesson that there is no thing new under the sun,” writes Jon Meacham. In 1822, Meacham explains, Jefferson worried aloud: “The atmosphere of our country is unquestionably charged…