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In my subconscious quest for self-discovery, I have learned how little I know about my own life. While I know the history of my life, as I would assume that most people do, and the memorable circumstances that define that …

At what point in a person’s life do what should count in life really matter?  This is not even a question to which there can be a universal answer, since no standards exist by which the right answer can even …

Growing up, I was taught that silence was golden. I grew up and continued to believe that that this was true. Then I went to live in England at a time when, as a black African immigrant, it was just …

For a very long time, we have known from studies that human nature would almost require us to do anything that we think might protect us from real, imagined or clearly perceived dangers. The other side of that is that, …

The seeds of social rejection are sown and nurtured through stigmatization, labeling, and myriad forms of discrimination.  Every act of group stigmatization arises out of the desire of a dominant group to establish, exercise, and maintain its dominance over less …

There is no adult in perfect physical health, nor is there one in perfect mental health.  To claim otherwise is unhealthy.  If that were true, there would be no need to take the precautions that we take against infections or …