Carry on Community Development Corp. There's No Greater Love

05/23/2024

05/11/2024

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05/06/2024

The Parliament - Funkadelics.
The P-Funk story began in 1956 in Plainfield, New Jersey, with a doo- w*p group formed by fifteen-year-old George Clinton. This was The Parliaments. The Parliaments finally achieved a hit single in 1967 with "(I Wanna) Testify" while Clinton began commuting to Detroit as a songwriter and producer for Motown Records.

04/21/2024

Happy Second Chance Month
You may know of Steve Wonder but have "wondered" who was is Mother? Introducing Ms Lula Mae Hardaway...she was a songwriter and the mother of musical genius 'Stevie Wonder. She co-wrote many of Stevie's songs during the early years of his career. She was co-nominated for the 1970 Grammy Award for Best R&B Song for co-writing 'Signed, Sealed, Delivered.
—Lula was born Jan 11th 1930 in Eufaula, Alabama but spent her early adult life in Saginaw, Michigan before moving to Los Angeles in 1975 where she remained until her passing on May 31st 2006.
She co-wrote several of her son's songs, including "I Was Made To Love Her", "Signed Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours", "You Met Your Match" and "I Don't Know Why I Love You". Two of these tracks also appeared on Stevie's 1968 album "For Once In My Life" and another two, ""I Wanna Make Her Love Me" and "Ain't No Lovin'", were also co-penned by Lula.
For co-writing "Signed, Sealed, Delivered", she was co-nominated for the 1970 Grammy Award For Best R&B Song.

04/17/2024

03/25/2024

Happy Women’s History Month and Happy 102nd birthday to Agnes Keleti, the world's oldest living Olympic champion!

This Holocaust survivor from Hungary won a total of ten gymnastics medals, including five golds, at the 1952 Helsinki Games and the 1956 Melbourne Games. Keleti survived WWII thanks to working as a maid under a false identity but many of her family members were among the 550,000 Hungarian Jews killed during the Holocaust. After the war, she resumed her gymnastics training and secured her Olympic medals at the ages of 31 and 35. Today, the energetic centenarian still prefers to look forward, asserting: "The past? Let’s talk about the future. That’s what should be beautiful. The past is past but there is still a future."

03/23/2024

Happy Women’s History Month. Introducing to some presenting to others Madam C.J. Walker first female self-made millionaire!!!

03/22/2024

Happy Woman’s History Month. Introducing Queen Mother Mrs. Tessie E. Ailes (Feb 18, 1915 - Jun 2001) here is the Queen Mother posing in her stylish hat made of money during her retirement celebration from Newark Board of Education Custodian. Born to Frank Tank Flanagan, Head Deacon of Abyssinian Baptist Church Newark and Lena Freeman-Flanagan Queen Mother was chauffeured to Central High School where she graduated and went off to attend Shaw University, HBCU, for nursing. While at Shaw she thrived only for her nursing education to be cut short within two years as she was forced to return home nurse, and care for her ailing mother. This was also the time when she met and married Emery Staton Ailes. From this Union 7 children were born; Nadine, Emery Jr, (my dad) Richard, Patricia, Judith, William, Rodney, and grandson Emery III. She lived and raised her family by the Grace of God on Badger Avenue, then to Dayton St, through two depressions, and a world war, worked two jobs for ten years, raising all 7 of her own plus a loving grandson before, during, and after Newark riots. Every one of us graduated and finished school. She was famous for wise sayings like: “That Circle Has Got to Turn” and “when you find your hand in the lions mouth, ease it out”. She also served faithfully as Deacon of Calvary Gospel Church in Newark NJ. Not only was she a loving daughter, wife, mother, and grandmother, but everyday her house was the place to be for all children on Dayton Street especially on Sundays when she’d cook fried chicken and feed all the kids in the neighborhood who would find their way, somehow someway to 368 3-E. On many plenty occasion the house looked like the United Nations. lol

Happy Women’s History Month

Queen Mother Tessie E. Ailes Rest In Power!!!

03/16/2024

Happy Women’s History Month. Introducing Ida B. Wells. Ida B Wells great American suffragist dies on 25th March 1931. Ida working to emancipate all women . Another Iconic woman working against a background of Jim Crow Laws to campaign for women’s rights to be recognised as full American citizens. We pay tribute to all women, often lone voices , fighting for all women’s s*x based rights.