Category: Memories—Family stories of Days Gone
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Interracial Marriage: Richard & Mildred When Love Happens!
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The Ban on interracial marriage. During the seventeenth and early eighteenth century; the growing number of interracial marriages (also known as miscegenation) between Blacks and whites led to the passage of this new law. The first anti-miscegenation lawenacted was in the colony of Maryland in 1664 and additional colonies quickly followed…
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Cocaine and Fentanyl…The Deadly Mix!
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Cocaine and Fentanyl are a dangerous mix. Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid that is up to 100 times more potent than morphine. It is often used to cut or lace other drugs, like cocaine because it is cheap and easy to obtain. This is a deadly combination because it…
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Intimate partner violence (IPV)…let’sTalk
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Intimate partner violence (IPV) …my family was dealt a devastating blow when we lost an integral member to it. My great-niece became an orphan thanks to her father’s murder of this child’s mother and suicide right afterward – but it could have been so much worse since she was in…
