by Paulette Williams | Feb 22, 2021 | NSA Meditations Blog
Humankind is created with a spiritual dimension that must be nourished if humanity is to reach beyond the smallness of the self and accomplish the greatness that is necessary to achieve justice and liberty. The reach is to bring the impossible into time and space....
by Paulette Williams | Feb 15, 2021 | NSA Meditations Blog
The first stanza of this anthem sets the mind of the disinherited in a state of praise for the progress made to date; however, this second verse looks squarely at the atrocities of their oppression. Here, the words are an acknowledgement of the dark side of life in...
by Paulette Williams | Feb 8, 2021 | NSA Meditations Blog
This poem by James Weldon Johnson, set to music by his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, and designated as an anthem to inspire Blacks by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), was created for Black people burdened by racial injustice in...
by Paulette Williams | Feb 1, 2021 | NSA Meditations Blog
The seven-year-old girl and her two sisters (6 and 5 years old) were traveling home to Pennsylvania after a two-week visit with their grandmother in North Carolina. Their father and uncle had driven down, and the girls anticipated the fun of the long drive home. It...
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