Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

John 14:6

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Good friend of mine who passed away almost eight years would have been 26 years old today. Doug was an awesome guy, great friend, but even better brother. If he were here today I know he would be doing something in the entertainment industry with all the talent he had.

Happy bday Doug and may God rest your soul.

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You still don’t get the whole #BlessTheGym thing? You say Kendrick I rarely have time to visit a gym or workout. Well it’s up to you to figure out what works in your schedule better: working out 1 hour a day or being dead 24 hours a day.

Living a healthy life is very important to me and want people to LIVE a happy an active life. Find a way to get started today there are so many tools available for us to use these days, take advantage.

Bless your gym/body… It’s YOURS!

Be who God designed you to Be!

It’s important that we understand our worth and the power we have.

The Blessing/Empowerment is there waiting to be activated!

God Bless

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In 1949, black audiences in Atlanta tuned in to the first radio station owned and operated by African-Americans, WERD. Established by Jesse B. Blayton Sr. in 1949, the station was housed in a Masonic building in one of the wealthiest black neighborhoods in the United States. Blayton hired his son Jesse Jr. to run the station, along with, “Jockey” Jack Gibson, one of the most popular black DJs at the time.

Housed in the same building as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, it is rumored that when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., wanted to get on the air, he would beat on the ceiling so that the station would send a microphone down.

WDIA in Memphis, Tenn., had black programming on the air in 1948, but was not owned by African-Americans.

Dr. Lloyd N. Ferguson

Ferguson started the first doctoral chemistry program at a black college. Born on February 9, 1918, in Oakland, Calif., Dr. Ferguson’s family lost everything during the Great Depression. However, he bought a chemistry set at 12 and experimented in a backyard shed that he built himself. In high school, Ferguson developed and products such as moth repellent, spot remover and silver polish. His high-school chemistry teacher recognized his ability and encouraged Ferguson to go to college and pursue chemistry as a career.

After graduating from high school, he worked as a porter for the Southern Pacific Railway Company in order to save enough money to enroll at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1940, he earned a B.S. in chemistry and later went on to become the first African-American to earn a doctoral degree in chemistry at Berkeley. Dr. Ferguson worked with famous chemists such as Melvin Calvin and Glenn T. Seaborg.

Dr. Ferguson taught at Howard University, North Carolina A&T, California State University Los Angeles, Bennett College and the University of Nairobi, Kenya. In 1953, the Guggenheim awarded him a fellowship, which took him to the Carlsberg Laboratory in Copenhagen, Denmark. Between 1961 and 1962 he was a National Science Foundation fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland.

Dr. Ferguson published more than six textbooks that are still used worldwide and translated into several languages including Mandarin, Hindu and Swahili. Universities in the South used Dr. Ferguson’s textbooks and research before African-Americans were allowed to teach or attend many of those same universities.

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Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

Philippians 1:27

New BTG design for the our pullovers and we’re going to let the people decide, so let us know which one you like… Colors are subject to change.

1999 Louisiana Governors Games

Easter 1988

Before there was Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles, there was Thomas Wiggins, aka Thomas Bethune or Blind Tom. Wiggins entertained large crowds in the 19th century. Born a slave in 1849, he was purchased at two years old, along with his parents, Charity and Mingo Wiggins, by James Neil Bethune, a prominent Georgia lawyer and anti-abolitionist.

Wiggins was blind and autistic but a musical genius with a phenomenal memory. Music fascinated him and he could pick out tunes on the piano and reproduce them by the time he was four. By the age of six Wiggins was improvising on the piano and composing music. He made his concert debut at eight-years-old in Atlanta. Eventually Wiggins could recite any poem and play any piece of music on the piano after hearing it only once.

In 1858, Bethune hired out Wiggins as a musician for $15,000. He published his piano pieces “Oliver Galop” and “Virginia Polka” in 1860. During the Civil War, Wiggins and Bethune raised funds for Confederate relief. By 1865, 16-year-old Tom Wiggins, now “indentured” to James Bethune, played the works of Bach, Chopin, Liszt, Beethoven, and Thalberg.

Mark Twain called him an ‘inspired idiot,’ who could ‘play two tunes (on the piano) and sing a third at the same time, and let the audience choose the keys he shall perform in.’

By 1868 Wiggins and the Bethune family lived on a Virginia farm in the summer, while touring the United States and Canada the rest of the year. He averaged $50,000 a year in concert revenue.

Although he sustained a career that spanned 50 years and performed for all manner of distinguished critics and adoring crowds, Thomas Greene Wiggins, known to his fans as Blind Tom, is virtually unknown today.