• “The position of your mind determines the posture of your life” - Kristen Hopkins
In 2001, at the young age of 19 I found myself in Atlanta at the end of a very dangerous lifeline. My prior years were full of forgotten achievements and poor decisions. I was arrogant (due to my ability to…

Gunplay By Anita C. Jarman “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” – Proverbs 14:12 (NKJV) After reading this divine proverb, it becomes noticeable how often I knowingly engage…

donnice peterson

Class of 2015, Delaware State University
One of the Dangers of the Mind that I find to be prevalent within many people would be fear. Whether it is fear of rejection, fear of failure, or even fair of actually succeeding. Fear is something that I dealt…

marquez branson

CEO of Lamont & Son Realty
80,Black 80, Blue Go. I took my normal kick step expecting Ray to bullrush. As I shot my hands into his chest, I felt an all to familiar pain in my knee. I dropped like a bag of bricks, grimacing…

My name is Brenda Dubois and I’m from Belgium. I arrived in DC end of August thanks to the program The Washington Center to do an internship at Hispanic Heritage Foundation until mid December. It’s the first that I actually…

The darkness seemed to reign relentlessly in the late months of 2007. There was this chill that lingered in those fall months that would make winter envious. At that point in time, I was about 13 years old with an…