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I’m not ready For the choo choo train Of September yet I want August to be In my mind’s eye To hold its days Of bright sun Before me To know That the day Will stretch To my needs Not September When I have to stretch To its needs And yet The light in September […]
When we think of Mary Our Blessed Mother Mary, conceived without sin Born this day Conceived a sinless man Raised our Lord From her blood His life was born From her beating heart His heart beat too So God wants us To turn to our Immaculate Mary A mother of all For succor For sustenance […]
What if we could Get God Like we can purchase Right now A metal cutting board We have nothing to lose Because everyone is Buying a board An extra board For their mothers Who love to cook And their sisters Who need them too How about you Do you need God To make your life […]
You are my friends! Jesus tells us And St. Gregory the Great Reminds us. I have called you friends Because everything I have heard from the Father I have made known to you. But Lord, we are hard of hearing Our sight is not yours Please tell us over and over Your are my friends! […]
St. Paul writes To the Thessalonians And to us That we are all Children of the Light Children of the Day… We are not of darkness Our belief in God Shelters us From the evil one Our safe harbor Is God’s love for us A love He shares With us and in us …Only God […]
Frederick Douglass returned to Easton, Maryland in 1878 to dedicate the Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church and the Bethel AME Church. These two African American churches were sources of inspiration for black men and women. Dr. Mark Leone, Tracy Jenkins, and fellow students have conducted archaeological digs to reconstruct what was once a free community of […]
Habitats in your garden to attract birds include seed bearing shrubs and perennials.
Steve Luxenberg, author and Washington Post editor, explains Frederick Douglass’ involvement in the post Civil War political landscape leading up to the decision of the Supreme Court case Plessy V. Ferguson, which upheld the “separate but equal” law. The final installment in 2019’s series on black history. Topics include: The Fugitive Slave […]
During the height of the great Potato Famine, Frederick Douglass visits Cork, Ireland, the city from where millions of Irish immigrated. He stays with the Jennings family whose daughter Isabel worked with the Cork Anti Slavery Society. It is here that Douglass feels like he is treated as a human being for the first time, […]
Irish woman Ann Coughlin highlights Frederick Douglass’s two year tour of the British Isles. Coughlin focuses on the relationship between Irish political leader Daniel “The Liberator” O’Connell and American abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Daniel O’Connell was regarded as the greatest Irish orator of the 19th century and served as inspiration for Douglass with his firm anti-slavery stance. […]
