by Tina | June 4, 2010 at 6:54 AM
What good was being empowered to raise my voice if what I had to say didn’t matter?
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by Tina | January 17, 2010 at 12:20 PM
Last week, I had the great fortune to meet with Busayo Obisakin , a Voice of our future correspondent from Nigeria and winner of a full scholarship to the US and The Empowerment Institute in New York.
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by Tina | November 5, 2009 at 7:00 AM
In England, I flitted from town to city and village to dale, never knowing which place to call my home, until I immigrated to America.
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by Tina | October 18, 2009 at 4:59 PM
Juliana opened her icebox to be faced with a ridiculous amount of food. In a sudden moment of unexpected clarity, she saw how grotesque, how out of balance that was.
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by Tina | August 28, 2009 at 11:36 AM
As a growing number of countries instruct their children in English, the opportunities to learn by living life from another perspective are increasingly hard to come by.
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by Tina | July 31, 2009 at 7:34 AM
There are so many of us, foreign-born immigrants, gracing the streets of this idealistic land of the free. I never planned to be one of them.
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by Tina | July 2, 2009 at 9:33 AM
“They’re open like a blank palette. If they don’t have a strong sense of family, of history, of belonging anywhere, then anything that comes along can brush strokes on them.
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by Tina | June 16, 2009 at 8:11 PM
“If I make a difference in somebody’s life, even by giving encouragement, it is a plus for me.”
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by Tina | May 2, 2009 at 7:12 AM
I became a mother in New York City, a few short days after 9/11. The experience was shattering, traumatizing, life changing.
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by Tina | April 10, 2009 at 7:03 AM
There’s a legend carried in the mists of Britain that rolls across the seas, through the hills and valleys and the veins of all born onto its land.
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