"The sky is no longer the limit ... "

... So says California teen Kimberly Anyadike!!
Kimberly made aviation history by becoming the youngest African-American female to fly coast-to-coast. As I had a chance to with Kimberly and her mom recently, I couldn't help but flashback to the inspiring words of President Obama as he addressed NAACP convention delegates in New York ...

Click on arrow to listen to snippets of my conversation with Kimberly.

Produced and voiced by Kim Lampkins

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GOOD-BYE TO A GRAND LADY

Wikimedia Commons Dr. Dorothy Height, who as longtime president of the National Council of Negro Women was the leading female voice of the 1960s civil rights movement, has died. She was 98. A Howard University Hospital spokesman said she died early Tuesday morning. As a teenager, Height marched in New York's Times Square shouting, ``Stop the lynching.'' In the 1950s and 1960s, she was the leading woman helping the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other leading activists orchestrate the civil rights movement. The late activist C. DeLores Tucker once called Height an icon to all African-American women. Dr. Dorothy Irene Height_(March 24, 1912 - April 20, 2010) Produced and voiced by Kim Lampkins

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