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Entrepreneur, philanthropist, and activist, Madam C.J. Walker rose from poverty in the South to become one of the wealthiest African American women of her time. She used her position to advocate for the advancement of black Americans and for an end to lynching. Born Sarah Breedlove on December 23, 1867, on a plantation in Delta, Louisiana, one of six children of Owen and Minerva Anderson Breedlove, former slaves-turned sharecroppers after the Civil War. Orphaned at age seven, Walker lived with her older sister Louvenia, and the two worked in the cotton fields. Partly to escape her abusive brother-in-law, at age 14 Walker married Moses McWilliams. When her husband died in 1887, Walker became a single parent of two-year old daughter Lelia (later known as A’Lelia). Seeking a way out of poverty, in 1889, Walker moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where her four brothers were barbers. There, she worked as a laundress and cook. She joined the African Methodist Episcopal Church, where she met leading black men and women, whose education and success likewise inspired her. In 1894, she married John Davis, but the marriage was troubled, and the couple later divorced.

Struggling financially, facing hair loss, and feeling the strain of years of physical labor, Walker’s life took a dramatic turn in 1904. That year, she not only began using African American businesswoman Annie Turbo Malone’s”The Great Wonderful Hair Grower,” but she also joined Malone’s team of black women sales agents. A year later, Walker moved to Denver, Colorado, where she married ad-man Charles Joseph Walker, renamed herself “Madam C.J. Walker,” and with $1.25, launched her own line of hair products and straighteners for African American women, “Madam Walker’s Wonderful Hair Grower.” Initially, Walker’s husband helped with advertising and establishing a mail order business. After the pair divorced in 1910, she relocated to Indianapolis and built a factory for her Walker Manufacturing Company. An advocate of black women’s economic independence, she opened training programs in the “Walker System” for her national network of licensed sales agents who earned healthy commissions. Ultimately, Walker employed 40,000 African American women and men in the US, Central America, and the Caribbean. She also founded the National Negro Cosmetics Manufacturers Association in 1917. Walker’s business grew rapidly, with sales exceeding $500,000 in the final year of her life. Her total worth topped $1 million dollars, and included a mansion in Irvington, New York dubbed “Villa Lewaro;” and properties in Harlem, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis. As her wealth increased, so did her philanthropic and political outreach. Walker contributed to the YMCA, covered tuition for six African American students at Tuskegee Institute, and became active in the anti-lynching movement, donating $5,000 to the NAACP’s efforts. Just prior to dying of kidney failure, Walker revised her will, bequeathing two-thirds of future net profits to charity, as well as thousands of dollars to various individuals and schools.

Sweet potatoes are an excellent choice for diabetics since they contain natural sugars that decrease and stabilize the insulpin resistance in diabetics. They are also good for the regulation of the sugar levels. The sweetness of this potato comes from the beta-carotene. The body uses it to produce vitamin A, and that is the reason why it is referred to as Provitamin A.

Sweet potatoes are rich in dietary fibers which are good for digestion. They also prevent colon cancer and help with constipation.

Sweet potatoes contain carotenoids which help in producing Vitamin A. This vitamin regenerates the respiratory system. So, people with respiratory problems, especially smokers should consume sweet potatoes more often. Vitamin D is also contained in sweet potatoes. This vitamin is good for the teeth, heart, skin, bones, energy levels as well as for the normal function of the thyroid gland.

In general there can be an improvement of the heart functioning with the help of the potassium. This vitamin lowers the impact of the sodium, regulates blood pressure and makes a balance of the electrolytes.

The sweet potato has Vitamin B6 that prevents heart attacks, strokes and degenerative diseases. The potassium in the sweet potatoes is good for healthy tissues and muscles. It also helps in reducing swelling and cramps, provides with energy and relaxes the muscles. It also regulates heartbeats and nerve signals.

Beta –carotene in the sweet potato acts like an anti –oxidant. It helps with arthritis, gout and asthma, protects against lung and breast cancer and it also reduces aging effects.

Since sweet potatoes are rich in folic acid, they are a great source of folic for healthy fetal development. Pregnant women should consume more sweet potatoes.

The potassium content in potatoes increases the flow of oxygen, regulates the balance of the body’s water and normalizes the heartbeats. The magnesium content on the other hand acts as an anti-stress agent.

Vitamin C is crucial for the entire body’s function and sweet potatoes have abundance of it.

Sweet potatoes are also rich in iron that has a crucial role in the producing of red and white blood cells. That’s why they help against anemia.

Did you know that you can use the water from the boiled potatoes for treating your skin? Especially for irritation of the skin, cleaning the pores and absorbing impurities.

The Vitamin C contained in the sweet potato will produce collagen while the vitamin E will help in the improvement of the complexion of the skin. Anthocyanins will help you in removing wrinkles and purifying the dark circles around the eyes.

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Bumpy Johnson

Ellsworth Raymond “Bumpy” Johnson(October 31, 1905 – July 7, 1968) was an American mob boss and bookmaker in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood. He was the main Harlem associate of Charles “Lucky” Luciano and what later became known as the Genovese crime family, and his criminal career has inspired films and television. Johnson was born in Charleston, South Carolina on October 31, 1905. Johnson derived his nickname “Bumpy” from a bump on the back of his head. When he was 10, his older brother, Willie, was accused of killing a white man. Afraid of a possible lynch mob, his parents mortgaged their tiny home to raise money to send Willie up north to live with relatives. As Johnson grew older, his parents worried about his short temper and insolence towards whites, and in 1919 he was sent to live with his older sister Mabel in Harlem. Johnson was an associate of numbers queen Madame Stephanie St. Clair. By the summer of 1952, Johnson’s activities were being reported in the celebrity people section of Jet, an American weekly aimed at African American readers which was founded in 1951 by John H. Johnson of Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago, Illinois. That same year, Johnson was indicted in New York for conspiracy to sell heroin and was sentenced to fifteen years in prison. Two years later, Jet reported in its crime section that Johnson began his sentence after losing an appeal. He served the majority of that sentence at Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco Bay, California as inmate No. 1117, and was released in 1963. Johnson was arrested more than 40 times and served two prison terms for narcotics-related charges. In December 1965, Johnson staged a sit-down strike in a police station, refusing to leave, as a protest against their continued surveillance. He was charged with “refusal to leave a police station” but was acquitted by a judge. Johnson was under a federal indictment for drug conspiracy when he died of congestive heart failure on July 7, 1968, at the age of 62. He was at Wells Restaurant in Harlem shortly before 2 a.m., and the waitress had just served him coffee, a chicken leg, and hominy grits, when he keeled over clutching his chest. Friend Frank Lucas was there, and someone ran down the street to the Rhythm Club to get his childhood friend, Junie Byrd. When Byrd arrived, Lucas cradled Bumpy in his arms, and Johnson briefly opened his eyes and smiled, then fell into unconsciousness. He was taken, by ambulance, to Harlem Hospital where he was pronounced dead. He is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City.

Those of us who study the living sciences are tired of sickness and wrongful prosecution, and most all killing of our mental, physical, and spiritual bodies. As we meditate, we love to wonder and feel as we journey through our minds. We may start to feel like the space between things may not be empty. You know, we only experience a very small part of what’s going on in the space. There’s all kinds of electromagnetic fields, along with an assortment of many other things happening in what is perceived as a empty space that we don’t experience directly.

We may begin to think that maybe the space between things are not empty; but it’s full and it connects all things. When I studied the living sciences I came to understand some of the basis of quantum field theory. I realized that we had actually found that the space is not empty at all, but full of energy. These things are now proven. When we questioned ourselves and challenge our critical thinking then we expand our minds to reach a new level of understanding. Is that the point when we have intentions of the action we start to expand?

When the particles of the mind start to align with the informational protons that has been laid out since existence began then a system is created that is linked together and places us in a state of constant learning.

All things are fractal of one another, all information of one is in the other. Every particle within the universe, every atom in the universe seems to be a present holographic within each other, which connects them all through this wormhole network in the structure of the space information highway. This brings us to zero point energy. Zero point energy is the science of consciousness. In short, all energy is connected, a wave pattern of energy that connects through time and space. Understanding how this energy affects the insufferable pain many people experience can be a result of Toxic Tribalism. Tribalism is what you commonly know as family or close relations. Toxic Tribalism can be defined as your perception of others and believing you in some way superior. This narrow view or inflated sense of self is toxic and causes Toxic Tribalism.

Many of us have at some point experience being in a state of Toxic Tribalism. This type of thought process is causing major distress in many areas of our lives. This is continue because of the vacuum system being held by not linking into the protonic informational Highway of energy field of which we were created. This Toxic Tribalism is caused by beta blockers created by human conditions to block the vectors to disconnect your mind from emotional connection to the body and astral body. This action allows the internal connection to our electromagnetic pathway to travel the eternal energy field back and forth from the omega to the alpha. It is important that we are a part of the circle of life and not apart of a circle of survival. Believing in a higher power perhaps helps us understand the negative results of Toxic Tribalism.

Lastly, stop waiting to be saved by others when the power of everything and all things created are within our own atomic field. Learning to tap into your internal electromagnetic energy takes training(meaning education), practice (meaning understanding) and action( meaning wisdom).

So I will leave you with this quote: “Remember who you are” Lion King

written by: Dr Paul W Dyer Grandmaster of Martial Science

Make these Chili Sweet Potato Fries for Clean Eating Heaven!

makes about 4 servings Ingredients: • 4 large sweet potatoes, or yams • fresh ground black pepper, to taste • 2 Tbsps olive or avocado oil • 1 tsp garlic powder • 1 lb. lean grass-fed ground beef, or turkey • 1 white/yellow onion, diced • 2-3 garlic cloves, minced • 1/4 cup chipotle peppers in adobo sauce • 1 cup frozen organic corn, thawed or fresh 1 head of corn shred from its cob • 1 tsp chili powder • 1 tsp ground cumin • 1 tsp dried oregano • 1 tsp paprika • 1 (15 oz. jar) diced tomatoes, with juice • 15 oz. black beans, drained and rinsed if using canned • sea salt to taste Extra toppings: • sliced avocado, halved cherry tomatoes, organic sour cream or plain Greek yogurt, shredded cheese, fresh chopped parsley or cilantro, lime wedges, etc.

Instructions 1. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees f. and line a large baking sheet (or two) with parchment paper or silicone baking mats. 2. Cut the sweet potatoes into 1/2 inch fries, evenly as shown and place them into a large bowl. 3. Sprinkle fries with pepper and garlic powder, then drizzle with oil. Toss well to get all of your fries nicely coated. 4. Arrange in a single layer, with some space in between (so they can crisp up), on the baking sheets and bake for 20 to 25 minutes, flipping once during roasting time. 5. Meanwhile, heat a large (lidded) skillet over medium heat then add in your beef, onions and garlic. Cook, stirring frequently for about 6-7 minutes, or until meat starts to brown while breaking up the meat. 6. Add in seasonings, chipotle peppers, corn, black beans and diced tomatoes then gently stir to combine. 7. Reduce heat to low, cover with a lid and simmer for 20 minutes to allow flavors to develop and chili to thicken. Taste test, and add a sprinkle of sea salt if desired. 8. Sprinkle fries with sea salt when they come out of the oven. 9. Serve the sweet potato fries topped with your beef chili and any extra toppings of your choice...serving suggestion shown in the pictures! 10. I divided up the fries between 4 separate plates then let the kids top their own.

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