When unknown relatives contact you, are you willing to listen, share, and include? Do you leave the person with the feeling that he or she is not good enough? This episode explores families leaving home to pursue a better way of life and how that distance would eventually erode family relationships as elders begin to die along with those connections.

This episode is a call for action. Actions to get serious about the upcoming election to remove hatred from the Oval Office. Old School can’t always be funny. We have to get serious from time-to-time for change. Well, this is our time to fight for change. Let our children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren find our names on the right side of history.

Today, we celebrate the life of U.S. Congressman John Lewis. He was a good and faithful servant who fought a good fight for change. He endured a fractured skull on ‘Bloody Sunday’ for the Civil Liberties we enjoy as a nation of American citizens. Well done our good and faithful servant.

This episode is dedicated to the wisdom and leadership of mothers. My mother spoke in parables everyday. She had parables for whipping your behind and parables for showing love. What do you recall?

What superstitions do you recall and still practice today?

At a time when we are accessing history and moving forward to change the past sins of America, are we overlooking the negative impact of how we celebrate the 4th of July? Read Frederick Douglass’ speech that was presented on 5 July 1852.

After adding a new branch to my family tree, I realized how damaging it has been to recover from the effects of colonialism and the slave trade. African American families are still separated by names.

Please be patient enough to listen to this episode because it addresses the history of Sarah Collins, the lone survival who was with the four little girls bombed/murdered in the basement of the 16th St. Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.

We are celebrating the first National Observance of Juneteenth in the United States of America.

This episode analyzes freedom and equal justice. If you don’t have an interest in your history, then you are bound to repeat it