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The thought of morgues gives us chills, and for good reason. Dead bodies in and out, no wonder some claim that the dead linger behind. Why? Are they lost, stuck or just afraid to move on to the afterlife?

Living your best inspired life includes recognizing, embracing, and sharing all of your superpowers. In this powerful collaboration, our authors step up to tell their stories of transforming pain into purpose and arriving fully into who they were meant to be with superpowers that allowed them to heal and thrive and will allow you to do the same.

I am unapologetically broken; I am tired, but I keep moving. I am hurt, but I keep helping. I am delicate and strong. I am intelligent, but I don't have all of the answers. I am giving to a fault, and I am still learning how to ask for help. I have wronged others and I have been wronged. I have wonderful friends who show up when I need them the most, and I have others who only take; until they took too much.

Do you have a goal but don’t know where or how to start? Have you procrastinated for far too long on a goal that you want to accomplish? So many times, we lose sight of our goals because we may become distracted and forget why we are working on them. In this essay, Christina provides a 4-step simple guide to help you design a plan to accomplish your goals. Do it for you!

Dancing in Blackness is a professional dancer's personal journey over four decades, across three continents and 23 countries, and through defining moments in the story of black dance in America. In this memoir, Halifu Osumare reflects on what blackness and dance have meant to her life and international career.

The Essence of Liberty blends social, political, and economic history to analyze black women’s experience in both the North and the South, from the colonial period through emancipation. Focusing on class and familial relationships, King examines the myriad sources of freedom for black women to show the many factors that, along with time spent in slavery before emancipation, shaped the meaning of freedom. Her book also raises questions about whether free women were bound to or liberated from gender conventions of their day.