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Mentoring & empowerment

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Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court

Former NBA star and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Kareem Abdul-Jabbar explores his 50-year friendship with Coach John Wooden, one of the most enduring and meaningful relationships in sports history.

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The Magic in Empowering Black Girls | Taria Pritchett | TEDxWilmingtonLive

It’s odd to think that, in our progressive society, black girls are still seen as needing less support and protection than their white female counterparts in today’s world.

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Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds

In this beautifully written and propulsive memoir, Huma Abedin—Hillary Clinton’s famously private top aide and longtime advisor—emerges from the wings of American political history to take command of her own story.

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No Doubt, a Spirit Runs Through Him

Swift Eagle, Ohnahkoh Wamblee to his Lakota Sioux pals, is Phil Jackson, who received his Sioux name because of his long arms that stretched like wings when he swooped down the basketball floor during a clinic with Bill “Tall Elk” Bradley at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota in 1973.

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A Genuine Guru: Jan Willis Remembers Lama Yeshe

It was as though he saw right to the bottom of me: I had this low self-esteem and had endured all those put-downs from the racism of the South, but at the same time I wanted to be strong; I wanted to be strong and powerful.

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