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Archive for the ‘Inspiration’ Category
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Snake and the Eggs
Reading time: 4 – 7 minutes “My eggs!” cried Chicken. “One of my eggs is missing! Yesterday I had twelve eggs and today there are only eleven.” As Chicken fled her nest to find Rooster, she had no idea that she was about to lose more eggs. Just out of view of the nest, the thief patiently waited for Chicken to leave her eggs again. Snake crept slowly and quietly up to the nest. He ...
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Tortoise captures the Elephant
Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes Once there was a king who had been trying very hard to capture the elephant for his personal collection, but that prize had proved elusive. All the hunters in the kingdom had tried but failed to capture the elephant. So the king promised anyone who could capture the elephant half of his kingdom. The tortoise heard about this and went to the king to accept the challenge. The king ...
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King “This is Good”
Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes One day the king and his friend were out on a hunting expedition. The friend would load and prepare the guns for the king. The friend had apparently done something wrong in preparing one of the guns, for after taking the gun from his friend, the king fired it and his thumb was blown off. Examining the situation, the friend remarked as usual, “This is good!” To which the ...
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The Story of Hlakanyana
Reading time: 3 – 5 minutes Hlakanyana met a boy tending some goats. The boy had a digging-stick with him. Hlakanyana proposed that they should pursue after birds, and the boy agreed. They pursued birds the whole day. In the evening, when the sun set, Hlakanyana said, “It is time now to roast our birds.” The place was on the bank of a river. Hlakanyana said, “We must go under the water and see who ...
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Hustlers Prayer
Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes Now I didn’t write this as someone sent me this on backchannels. Besides this cat being a little bit angry about the money it’s a solid rant. What I took from it is the cat is having a civil war over money and religion AND that’s where a lot of good folks decide it must be in GOD’s plan that they be poor. Either way enjoy it as I ...
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CHRISTIANA CARTEAUX BANNISTER
Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes In the early 1850s Christiana Carteaux opened the first of at least four successive hairdressing salons on Boston’s Washington Street. In 1855, she opened a second salon in Providence, Rhode Island while continuing to operate her Boston salon. In 1857 she operated two salons in Boston, one on Washington Street, the other on West Street. In her Liberator advertisements, Madame Carteaux announced that she would “attend to Cutting and ...
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George T. Downing
Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes A warrior for human rights and free speech, George T. Downing was a well-known caterer and businessman who favored his conviction over his livelihood. He grew up in a family business and, when still a young man, ventured out on his own as an entrepreneur. He supported civil rights as a youth, developing early a compassion for justice and human rights that never waned. He also supported education for ...
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MV Transportation
Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes From our humble beginnings as a one-bus operation with three employees, MV Transportation has grown to become the largest privately held passenger transportation contracting firm in the United States. The firm was started in 1975 by Alex and Feysan Lodde in their San Francisco studio apartment on Haight Street. This visionary husband and wife team served as the company’s first vehicle operators, dispatchers, road supervisors and general managers, and ...
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Janice Bryant Howroyd
Reading time: 4 – 7 minutes A determined professional, Janice Bryant Howroyd expanded her small, one-phone-line office into a multimillion dollar business over a period of more than 30 years. She began ACT*1 Personnel Services, a now leading employment services agency, with $1,500 and perseverance. Howroyd was one of a handful of African American women entrepreneurs in the employment-service industry. Janice Bryant Howroyd was born around 1953 in Tarboro, North Carolina, as one of 11 ...
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