Erich C. Nall
OW Contributing Columnist
Sep 29 2011

An Ultimate Transformation Moment

This week’s Ultimate Transformation Moment seeks to re-establish some of the basic ground rules for academic achievement.

Turn off the television. The first rule during the school week, is to minimize the amount of television your children watch. If you would like, allow them to treat themselves during the weekend, for the duration that you are comfortable with. But during the academic week, the television remains off.

Sep 22 2011

An Ultimate Transformation Moment

This week’s Ultimate Transformation Moment focuses on parenting from a position of strength, not fear.

Parents, let us remember that children have unlimited potential. They are like sponges in the sense that they absorb everything around them. They take on your strength, as well as your fears and insecurities.

Sep 15 2011

An Ultimate Transformation Moment

This week’s Ultimate Transformation Moment re-establishes the basic fact that you possess the most tremendous power of choice.

You have the power to choose. You have the power to determine what the best alternative, path or decision is for your individual self, your family, and your community. You can choose, but in choosing, you must be willing to put in the work that is required by your choice.

Sep 8 2011

An Ultimate Transformation Moment

This week’s Ultimate Transformation Moment takes a look at the law of attraction.

We speak about the law of attraction so much, but we don’t really realize that we use the law of attraction everyday. Unfortunately, how we tend to use it works against us. Let’s make the commitment today, to use the law in the way that works for us.

Sep 1 2011

An Ultimate Transformation Moment

As the summer months wind down, the transition into the academic school year begins. This week’s Ultimate Transformation Moment is about building expectations.

It’s time to build academic expectations for our children, have them set some goals and then give them support as they decide how they’re going to achieve them.

Aug 25 2011

An Ultimate Transformation Moment

This week’s Ultimate Transformation Moment is about motivation.

You may have heard the joke about the millionaire who hosts a pool party for employees. In the pool is a gang of deadly fish–sharks, piranhas and stingrays.

The host tells his guests, that if anyone is brave enough to dive into the pool and swim from one end to the other, he will give them any of his possessions that they desire. 

Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.

California
San Diego college students and volunteers will carry out their sixth home restoration project on Wednesday, July 10 through Sunday, July 14. as part of the “Healing our Heroes’ Homes” (H3) program created by the nonprofit Embrace. The five-day effort will take place at the home of medically retired Marine Corps Capt. Sarah Bettencourt. Bettencourt served with many different units across the country during the Global War on Terrorism and developed a rare neurological disorder in 2008. With a focus to restore the homes of disabled veteran homeowners, H3 falls in line with Embrace’s mission to mobilize college-student volunteers and community members to serve less fortunate members of civilian and veteran communities. The project for the Bettencourts’ home includes kitchen and bathroom remodeling, building ADA-compliant disability ramps, widening their driveway to ADA standards, widening doorways and landscaping.
 
District of Columbia
The 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival will showcase its five-year community research project on African American identity with the program “The Will to Adorn: African American Diversity, Style, and Identity.” This multicity collaboration examines the history and culture of the aesthetics of African Americans. The festival will be held June 26-30 and July 3-7, outdoors on the National Mall between Seventh and 14th streets. “Whether we realize it or not, we are all dress artists. The way we compose our look is a creative expression of our ideas about who we are and who we aspire to be,” said Diana N’Diaye, program curator. “This program explores the diversity of African American traditions of style, but also teaches young people the importance of documenting their own culture and saving that information for themselves and future generations.”