I’m not from Montgomery, and meeting someone who knew Martin Luther King Jr. is still a thrill. I work one block away from where Rosa Parks caught that famous bus. Walking by the former Greyhound Bus Station, where the Freedom Riders were beaten for trying to integrate interstate transportation, still chills and astounds me. A century before the Civil Rights Movement, the same area welcomed Jefferson Davis and saw the birth of the Civil War. Read More…
Like most students I entered college to earn a degree because Degree = Career. And like most students in this day and age, particularly those like myself whose field of choice happened to be in the liberal arts, I realized that this equation is more appropriately written as such:
Degree = Go back and get a Masters Degree in something useful and talk to us in three years. Read More…
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