Author: Carma Henry

   This begins a series of articles that provide actionable tools to integrate conversations about legacy, estate planning, and asset protection into your everyday life with your family, across the generations, in a way that makes it easy. You’ll do so with confidence. And your family will thank you. They’ll feel heard, included, and empowered. No longer will legacy be a shunned, unspoken, abandoned topic until a crisis. Your family won’t be one that falls prey to the turmoil that comes from avoidance.

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       For the more than 10 million Black Americans who rely on federal food assistance to feed their families, the projected damage from food-aid cuts was not just a warning. They were all but a done deal.

       For many Americans, emancipation is remembered as a single moment January 1, 1863 when Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. But for Black Floridians, freedom did not arrive with the stroke of a pen. It came slowly, painfully, and only after generations of struggle, sacrifice, and survival.

       Such is the story of Emma Mike and Lillie Mike, two little Black girls whose lives were stolen in Calhoun County, Georgia, in 1884 during one of America’s many acts of racial terror. One child was reportedly only six years old. The other was just four.

       The Book of Esther tells the story of a young woman placed in position “for such a time as this.” It was not comfort that called Esther. It was crisis. It was not convenience that summoned her. It was conscience. She understood that silence in dangerous times could become betrayal to her people.