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"Community Garden" with Terrance Key

Key shares his experience growing up in the small town of Bastrop, la. Key shares about the inspiration of his grandparents in his life and the reason he credits them for the man he has become. Terrance shares his military experience and the effects he had on him earlier on in life. Key now the owner of Northeast Counseling LLc, talks about the state of mental health and the need to seek help in order to deal with inadequate feelings. Key shares how he still has to cope with depression and anxiety himself, while explaining "It is okay not to be okay"

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Ernest Lee Thomas (born March 26, 1949) is an actor. He is known for his role as Roger "Raj" Thomas on What's Happening!! and the sequel, What's Happening Now!!, and for his recurring role as Mr. Omar on Everybody Hates Chris. He was born in Gary and began his professional acting career as a Broadway actor, appearing in Love for Love and The Member of the Wedding. He moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career as a TV/film actor. He received a role on an episode of The Jeffersons. It was during the taping of the show that he learned of an audition for a sitcom loosely based on the 1975 film Cooley High. He auditioned, won the lead role, and filmed the television pilot. The concept was quickly reworked into a more light-hearted approach to the source material, and became known as Central Avenue, before settling on the title What's Happening!!. He was the only cast member retained from the pilot and took the lead role of Roger "Raj" Thomas. The new "summer series" became ratings hit and was expanded to a full series. He was involved in other film and TV projects including Baretta, The Brady Bunch Hour, and the film A Piece of the Action. During the first season of What's Happening!!, He would go on to play the role of Kailuba in the Roots. He has guest-starred on several popular TV dramas and sitcoms including In the Heat of the Night, The Parent 'Hood, Martin, Soul Food, The Steve Harvey Show, All About the Andersons, and more recently Just Jordan. He has appeared in several films, including a supporting role in Malcolm X and a cameo in Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star. He had an uncredited guest spot as Ernest T "Bass" on the TV show Are We There Yet? He was cast in The Lords of Salem. He was in Earworm. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #kappaalphapsi https://www.instagram.com/p/CqQMR_YLSC4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Major Charles Edward "Charlie" Greene (March 21, 1945 – March 14, 2022) was a track and field sprinter and winner of the gold medal in the 4 × 100 meters relay at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Born in Pine Bluff, he was considered a certain candidate for the 1964 Olympic team, but he suffered a muscle pull that held him to a sixth-place finish at the Olympic Trials. He won the 100-yard dash for O'Dea High School in Seattle in 1962 and 1963 and the 220-yard dash in 1963. He won the Amateur Athletic Union championships in the 100-yard dash in 1966 and the 100-meter dash in 1968. At the 1968 AAU Championships, he tied the 100 m world record twice. He equaled the world record of 10.0 seconds. In the second semifinal, he achieved a time of 9.9 seconds, the same time which had been run by Jim Hines and Ronnie Ray Smith in the previous race. The evening when the three men equaled the world record, June 20, 1968, at Hughes Stadium in Sacramento, has been dubbed by track and field historians as the "Night of Speed". As a University of Nebraska student, he won the National Collegiate Athletic Association championships in the 100-yard dash from 1965 to 1967 and tied the world record at 9.1 seconds. At the 1968 Olympics in Mexico, he felt pain in his left hamstring late in the race and was third in the 100-meter dash. He was the fastest man in the trials and semifinals, but before the final race, he was injured although started anyway with a bandaged leg. Despite the injury, he led off the American 4 × 100 meters relay team which won the gold medal and set a new world record of 38.24 seconds. He became an Army officer, serving as the sprint coach at West Point and head coach of the All-Army team. After retiring from the Army with the rank of Major, he became a director for Special Olympics International. In 2007, he became the sprints coach at Lincoln Northeast High School in Lincoln, Nebraska. He coached multiple state qualifiers in his first year along with the state's third-place 4 × 100 meters relay team of Logan Reising, Brian May, Tory Berks, and AJ Robinson. He married Journalist Linda Arnone (1969). #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #kappaalphapsi https://www.instagram.com/p/CqDIUNLsJQT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Rodney Peete (born March 16, 1966) is a former football quarterback who played in the NFL for 16 years. He played college football for the USC Trojans football team. He retired from playing in 2004 and is now in broadcasting. He attended Sahuaro High School in Tucson, as a freshman, sophomore, and junior, and went to Shawnee Mission South High School in Overland Park, KS, for his senior year. He was a three-year letterman in football, basketball, and baseball. In football, he was named the Arizona High School Player of the Year as a junior. He was drafted in the 30th round (722nd overall) by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 1984 MLB draft. He did not sign and elected to attend college at USC. He married actress Holly Robinson Peete (1995-). They have four children. One of their children was diagnosed with autism at age three. He discusses his relationship with his autistic child in the June 2010 issue of Men's Health. He is the son of Willie Peete, former running backs coach of the Kansas City Chiefs and Chicago Bears. His brother is NFL coach Skip Peete. He is the son-in-law of the late actor Matt Robinson, and the cousin of the late professional golfer Calvin Peete. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #kappaalphapsi https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp2aFGfr4hP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Michael Pettaway Tomlin (born March 15, 1972) is a football coach who is the head coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Since joining the Steelers in 2007, he has led the team to ten playoff runs, seven division titles, three AFC Championship Games, two Super Bowl appearances, and a title in Super Bowl XLIII. At age 36, he became the youngest head coach to win the Super Bowl, a record which was later beaten. He has never had a losing record during his 16 seasons as a head coach, which is the longest current streak in the NFL. He was born in Hampton, the younger of two sons; his brother. Their father, Ed Tomlin, played football at Hampton Institute in the 1960s, was drafted by the Baltimore Colts, and played for the Montreal Alouettes in the Canadian Football League. He was raised by his mother and stepfather, Julia and Leslie Copeland, who married when he was six years old. He graduated in 1990 from Denbigh High School in Newport News. He graduated from the College of William and Mary, becoming a member of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity. As a wide receiver, he was a second-team All-Yankee Conference selection in 1994. He met his wife, Kiya Winston, while they were students at The College of William & Mary. He graduated with a BA in Sociology. They have three children. He is a Christian who attends a Christian and Missionary Alliance Church. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #kappaalphapsi https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp1HrTEMUcO/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Ralph David Abernathy Sr. (March 11, 1926 – April 17, 1990) was a civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was ordained in the Baptist tradition in 1948. As a leader of the Civil Rights Movement, he was a close friend and mentor of Martin Luther King Jr. He collaborated with King to create the Montgomery Improvement Association which led to the Montgomery bus boycott. He co-founded and was an executive board member of the SCLC. He became president of the SCLC following the assassination of King, where he led the Poor People's Campaign in DC among other marches and demonstrations for disenfranchised Americans. He served as an advisory committee member of the CORE. He addressed the UN about world peace. He assisted in brokering a deal between the FBI and Indian protestors during the Wounded Knee incident of 1973. He retired from his position as president of the SCLC in 1977 and became president emeritus. He unsuccessfully ran for the House of Representatives for the 5th district of GA. He founded the Foundation for Economic Enterprises Development, and he testified before Congress in support of extending the Voting Rights Act in 1982. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #kappaalphapsi https://www.instagram.com/p/CppkxtOrzyo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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James E. Stamps (March 6, 1890 - October 30, 1972) was one of five pivotal founders of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, in Marlin, Texas, to Perry A. Stamps and Mabel Myers, both born in slavery. He had two brothers and one sister. He received an AB in economics from Fisk University and an AM in Economics from Yale University. He worked as an accountant for Anthony Overton, an African American businessman who had moved his company from Kansas City to Chicago. In 1915, he was in DC, for a conference, and Carter G. Woodson, invited him to speak to a gathering of African American history enthusiasts about the plight of African Americans and the importance of preserving their history, culture, and traditions. Three other men were in attendance, William B. Hargrove, George Cleveland Hall, and A. L. Jackson. Woodson, Hargrove, Hall, Jackson, and he met in Chicago on September 9, 1915 and founded the ASALH. The Association’s goal was to address the situation facing African Americans people in the US and to document African American achievement. Woodson asked him to work on the first publication of The Journal of Negro History on January 1, 1916, which was and still is the official publication of the ASALH. He was assigned to spearhead the publication The Half-Century, the companion to The Journal of Negro History. While the Journal told the history of African Americans, the Half-Century focused on contemporary political and racial concerns. In 1917, the Association host its first biennial convention, bringing together from across the US African Americans who promoted African American history. He married Georgia Morrow (1916-1920). They had two children. He married Maurice Williams. He managed the Chicago Metropolitan Assurance Company, worked as Secretary for the Black YMCA in Chicago and continued his activities with the ASALH. On March 26, 1931, he was visible and vocal at the YMCA’s World Conference against Racism and Segregation. In 1940, he retired as the Vice President of Illinois Service Federal Savings and Loan. A member of Kappa Alpha Psi and Sigma Pi Phi Fraternities. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #kappaalphapsi https://www.instagram.com/p/CpciX9SrFFa/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Dr. Homer E. Harris Jr. (March 4, 1916 – March 17, 2007) was a groundbreaking African American athlete who became the first African American captain of a Big Ten Conference team. Born in Seattle, he became the first African American captain of the school's football team as an end at Seattle's Garfield High School. He then played for the University of Iowa Hawkeyes football team, and in 1937, he became the team's Most Valuable Player and the first African American player to captain a Big Ten team. He was named an All-Big Ten End three years in a row. As the NFL wasn't integrated when he graduated, he went to medical school and became a dermatologist. He served as head coach of the North Carolina A&T football team in 1940. He was inducted into the Hawkeyes Hall of Fame in 2002 and had a Seattle park named after him the same year. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #kappaalphapsi https://www.instagram.com/p/CpXfMPfr7Up/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=