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Zarinah El-Amin Majied: Breaking the Chains of Intergenerational Trauma

January 27, 2020 Amelah El-Amin

“Growing up as an only child though I had four siblings was very lonely”, Zarinah El-Amin Majied conveyed as she recalled her childhood. Her mother, who left Zarinah’s older siblings Annie Pearl and Roosevelt in

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Single Mothers Build Careers & Family, Defying Stereotypes

October 3, 2012 Katrina Davis

“Growing up, there was just a negative connotation with being a single mom,” says Candase Chambers, “and now that I am one, I’m not that stereotype. I feel like I have to work hard to dispel the stereotype for myself, because when you meet new people the first thing people do is look at your ring finger and see you aren’t married.”

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