by Lawrence Johnson | Jul 20, 2022 | Articles, Uncategorized
On November 7th, 2018, 27-year-old Telemachus “Tel” Orfanos was shot and killed at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, California. Around 11:18 pm, 28-year-old ex-Marine Ian David Long opened fire on the approximately 260 employees and patrons gathered...
by Lawrence Johnson | Jul 20, 2022 | Articles, Uncategorized
Regardless of how you view society, it has fundamentally changed. Once, marriage was not only between one man and one woman, it was also a societal norm. Living together, on the other hand, was frowned upon just a few short years ago-it is now much more acceptable....
by Lawrence Johnson | Jul 20, 2022 | Articles, Uncategorized
THE ENEMY WITHIN Summer of 2020. Coronavirus was just starting its takeover, shortly before the mask mandates. As a bread vendor, I was working at a store filling the bread on the lower shelves. This anonymous woman (who happened to be White) stopped as she was...
by Lawrence Johnson | Jul 20, 2022 | Articles, Uncategorized
SELF INFLICTED It was November 2nd, 2015. On this cold Monday afternoon, 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee was playing with a few other children in South-side Chicago’s Dawes park. Dwright Boone-Doty, then 21, approached Lee, and begin to earn his trust by playing basketball...
by Lawrence Johnson | Jul 20, 2022 | Articles, Uncategorized
SITUATION CRITICAL “Since White people in America hold most of the political, institutional, and economic power, they receive advantages that nonwhite groups do not. These benefits and advantages, of varying degrees, are known as White privilege. For many White...
by Lawrence Johnson | Jul 20, 2022 | Articles, Uncategorized
TRAIN UP A CHILD “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” -Proverbs 22:6. While most of us can likely recite that scripture by heart, do we understand its true value? When we consider the direction a child should go,...
