Source: Tom Merton / Getty I recently returned from a trip to Dubai and Abu Dhabi, where my travel buddies and I were welcomed by a family from Michigan that happened to grow up with one of the ladies I was traveling with. I asked her if her decision to uproot her family of five, […]
It’s not a secret that African-Americans living at or below the poverty line —especially Black boys— have the worst drop out rates in the nation. But a new study suggests that one way to lower those statistics is to hire more Black teachers. According to Quartz, researchers from Johns Hopkins are working on a paper […]
A woman named Bernice made a Get Up Call one morning to mobilize the prayer warriors for her. She made a big decision to relocate to an entirely new region of the country, and things haven’t quite turned out the way she had hoped. Now, she’s making a risky trip back to where she came, […]
