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By cj May is considered Mental Awareness Month and in our daily lives, mental health is very important. What we choose to do in our daily lives contributes to our mental health. The choices we make, the things that we do, and those places and people we decide to be around can either affect our…

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By cj Prayer is a space in time where you choose to sit with the Mother/ Father Lord God. It is a time to ask for relief from the heavy burdens that are weighing you down. It is asking for your heart’s desires. As we fall on our knees and pray on behalf of others,…

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By cj This thing we call life — it ain’t easy. It is filled with ups and downs, disappointments, and pleasurable moments. It is filled with promises, along with the lack of keeping promises, and not to mention love and hurt in marriages and other relationships that end up broken. This thing we call life…

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By cj Christians around the world have concluded the 40-day Lenten season of fasting, sacrifice and prayer leading up to the celebration of Jesus’ resurrection from the dead. Muslims recently observed Ramadan, also a time of fasting and prayer, which began on February 18 and ended on March 20 with the celebration of Eid al…

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(AP Illustration / Peter Hamlin) By Deepa Bharath Associated Press When an invisible entity making up 85% of the universe’s mass stumps the greatest scientific minds of our time, awe is an understandable response. Physicists call it “ dark matter, “ a substance they describe as the cosmic glue, the scaffolding, a web that uses…

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By cj After I rise, I’m faced with days of grief; grief over changes in my life, over my relationships, and loss over gains I’ve made within my life. But as the notorious butterfly I believe that I am, God allows me to go into the chrysalis of change. Have you heard of the exciting…

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In a year where American history is being celebrated, Philadelphia’s Muslim community will be making some of its own when it commemorates the end of the holy month of Ramadan at Philadelphia. By Denise Clay-Murray Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock these days, you know that the United States is celebrating its 250th anniversary…

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By cj It is Women’s History Month, a time for women to be celebrated. It is time to glorify and lift up women everywhere in this city, state, nation and around the world for the work that they do, the sacrifices they make, the love they share and the endless prayers they offer. In fact,…

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Owner Kadjahtou Balde, center, interacts with Tyllah Gorham, at Modify Thrift in Harlem, in the Manhattan borough of New York, Friday, Jan. 23, 2026. (Ulaa Kuziez/RNS via AP) By Ulaa Kuziez associated press/ RNS NEW YORK (RNS) — Kadjahtou Balde has a hard time parting with some of the vintage gems that make it into…

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By cj As African Americans, many of us are descendants of enslaved people — not that enslavement was our original starting point, because it was not. In numerous studies, it has been shown that all humanity originated in Africa, which consisted of centuries-old civilizations. Notions of supremacy and control over other human beings are entirely…

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