Brighten your Light with David Bright

Life without Purpose is Meaningless

Have you ever felt guilty, restless, disappointed, or lost because you couldn’t define your life purpose? Everywhere I turn, I read or am told I must find my purpose. I have colluded with this dogma and told thousands of people the same thing — you need to find your purpose to be happy.

What if you can’t find your purpose? Or maybe you had to give up pursuing what you thought was your purpose to survive. Are you a failure?

History Timeline Leading To ”The March on Washington”

The March on Washington was a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Also known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the event aimed to draw attention to continuing challenges and inequalities faced by African Americans a century after emancipation.

White Lies vs. Black Lies

Black lies, or telling a lie to gain a personal benefit, are universally condemned. In contrast, white lies, or telling a lie to please another person, are seen as an innocent part of everyday interactions.

Sundown Towns in The U.S.

Sundown towns, also known as sunset towns, gray towns, or sundowner towns, are all-white municipalities or neighborhoods in the United States that practice a form of racial segregation by excluding non-whites via some combination of discriminatory local laws, intimidation, or violence. The term was used because signs directed "colored people" to leave town by sundown.

Professional Black Female Truck Drivers

The trucking industry is predominantly white, but there are a few entrants into the market who are looking to diversify this industry.   Kristi L. Jackson is the co-owner of October Fourth Holding L.L.C.  This holding company provides trucking and moving services for supplies and bulk materials. There are over 689,930 professional truck drivers currently employed in the United States.  Fifteen point seven professional truck drivers are women, while eighty-four point three are men.

Cast Down Your Buckets

Not only this, but the opportunity afforded here will awaken us to a new era of industrial progress.  Ignorant and inexperience, it is not strange that in the first years of our life, we began at the top, not the bottom, that a seat in Congress or the state legislature was not sought that real estate or industrial skill, that the political convention, of some teaching, had more attractions than starting or dairy farm or truck garden.       

Black Female Cheerleaders in Professional Sports

In April 1969, 200 Black Americans gathered in front of West Senior High School in Rockford, Illinois, to protest discrimination at the school. Among the signs they carried was one that said, “Black Cheerleaders to Cheer Too.”  During the 1950s and early 1960s, high school students and their parents relied on a variety of protest tactics to “take a strong stand to secure a Negro cheerleader(s).”  

Fathers Day: The Difference between a Father and Daddy

Well, it does have a difference between them. In short, a father is the male parent of the child, the one that shares DNA with the child, the progenitor. A dad, however, is the one that is responsible for taking care of the child. The one that gives love and affection. These seem very simple concepts, but they are a little deeper than that.

Serving in The Military without Equal Opportunity

The military's Discrimination Problem was so bad in the 1960s.  On July 26, 1948, President Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9981, which declared that "there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin." 

Mother’s Day

If it were up to us, every day would be Mother's Day, so we could have 365 opportunities to acknowledge who they are and all they do. They dry our tears. They answer our countless phone calls. They always know what to say when we need it most. And there's no denying that they give the warmest hugs.