Hear from Azure Antoinette, the “Maya Angelou of the Millennial Generation,” …
On Living Well with MS for Black Americans. https://www.moretoms.com/

Azure Antoinette is a commissioned poet, entrepreneur and arts education advocate. She has been living with multiple sclerosis (MS) for over a decade. Azure will be joined by Board-Certified Neurologist and world-renowned MS Specialist Dr. Mitzi Joi Williams, who is an advocate for living well with MS, especially for Black Americans, who may be more at risk for MS than previously thought.

Azure was diagnosed with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) at age 28. In her early twenties, she began having spasms, tingling in her hands and feet, and had trouble walking. She felt so tired that it was difficult to stay awake, to watch a movie or drive a car, even after sleeping for 16 hours some nights.

The fatigue experienced by MS patients is much different from an everyday tired feeling, and it can come on with no warning. Managing MS fatigue is an ongoing challenge because it isn’t a one-size-fits-all symptom.

Just ask Dr. Williams, who partners with patients to create personalized treatment plans for their distinctive MS experiences, including:
 Feeling excessively tired or weary
 Having trouble with memory or mental focus
 Experiencing muscle weakness or trouble with coordination

In a public service announcement (PSA) launching in February, Azure encourages Black Americans living with MS to pay attention to their symptoms and advocate for their health. She also shares her first-hand experience as a Black woman living well with MS in a documentary alongside Dr. Williams, who explains what symptoms to watch out for and advice on staying active while managing often overwhelming MS symptoms.

MS is an autoimmune disease where the body attacks itself, making it difficult for the brain to communicate with the rest of the body.2 Approximately one million adults live with MS in the U.S., a majority of whom are diagnosed with RRMS. Women are three times more likely than men to develop RRMS, and Black Americans have an increased risk of developing progressive symptoms.2

Azure and Dr. Williams discuss the upcoming PSA and documentary launch – in time for Black History Month in February and MS Awareness Month in March – and More to MS, an educational resource to help patients and their caregivers learn more about and better manage MS symptoms like fatigue.

Interview courtesy: Janssen

References
1 The National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Fatigue. https://www.nationalmssociety.org/Symptoms-Diagnosis/MS-Symptoms/Fatigue. Accessed January 2021.
2 Multiple Sclerosis Association of America. Who Gets Multiple Sclerosis. https://mymsaa.org/ms-information/overview/who-gets-ms/. Accessed December 2020.

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FRANK PERDUE: ALL IN THE NAME OF CHARITY
Written by, Lorraine Cancro-Silvetz, MSW , Edited by Jim Luce

Many came from far and wide to hear Mrs. Frank Perdue or Mitzi, as she is known to so many, present her latest book on her late husband, Frank Perdue. Tough Man, Tender Chicken: Business & Life Lessons from Frank, which reached #6 on Amazon’s business biographies, brings the story of Frank’s business acumen to life through interviews with friends and foes who knew and worked with him. This is the story of how Frank Perdue built his small chicken and grain company into an international powerhouse that today employs 19,000 people and sells its products in more than 100 countries.

Quote from Sara Herbert Galloway

“I grew up eating Frank Perdue’s chicken as have my children and most of America. It is a pleasure to know Mitzi and learn more about Franks life. I am thrilled that she is sharing his and her story with the world.”

Tough Man, Tender Chicken: Business and Life Lessons from Frank Perdue Paperback – October 24, 2014
by Mitzi Perdue (Author)

After years of hard work and ensuing success, Mitzi Perdue offers unique and poignant insights to leaders and readers around the world through her biography of Frank Perdue, who revolutionized the chicken industry. Frank Perdue did chores as a child so young he needed two hands to hold a single egg. But from these humblest of beginnings, he built an empire that today spans the globe. Due to his intuitive sense of the market, there is hardly a person over the age of twenty-five who doesn’t know the tagline, “It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.” Frank Perdue was an extremely thoughtful and thorough businessman. He studied every possible angle of business strategy, getting advice from every possible source, before making an important decision. This is his story, and also a personal story regarding the bond between Frank and Mitzi Perdue. A true case of love at first sight – they were engaged within 24 hours of their first date – and a remarkable partnership. The rich combination of Frank Perdue’s life and career and the lessons he imparts, along with Mitzi’s journalistic talents, allow this book to resonate on multiple levels – as a biography, as a business book, and as the tale of a one-of-a-kind American entrepreneur.

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honors General David Howell Petraeus. Part Two. (Note: We ran out of tape, but we have the end of his philosophical comment in text) 

‘I’ll keep in mind a Cautionary tale of young schoolboy who gave a report about Julius Caesar: he was a great general, he won some important battles, he made a long speech, they killed him.” – I will try to avoid Caeser’s fate this evening.

“Addressing such eminent company in this great city with this great organization, one can almost begin to feel a little bit important- thankfully I have plenty of experiences from early days in the army to keep that impulse in check…

One episode in particular- I was fresh out of West point, a new second lieutenant, out with my new platoon for the first time, we’d a long day and we didn’t crawl into our sleeping bags until just before midnight. I’d only been asleep for an hour or so, when my platoon sergeant, a Wise old airborne veteran elbowed me and woke me up, “Sir Look up and tell me what you see.” So I looked up at a beautiful night sky and I told him, “I see a million stars, platoon sergeant” — And what does that tell you sir?” he asked.  I wasn’t quite sure what he was getting at, so I thought about it for a moment and then gave an answer I thought was truly indicative of a keen intellect.   “…Well (there’s) millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets.  Theologically it tells me that God Is great and we are but small and insignificant. Meteorologically, it tells me that we’re going to enjoy a beautiful day for training tomorrow. 

    There was a long pause as my platoon sergeant considered this obviously weighty answer. He seemed to be speechless in fact after that impressive response.   

    So I finally asked him, “What does it tell you, platoon sergeant?”

“Well sir, it tells me, that’s somebody stole our tent.”

“While Americans may debate being for or against various endeavors undertaken by our government,  it is heartening that virtually all our citizens agree on one political point, that we should all support those who put themselves in harms way to serve our country.”

I was privileged to serve in some tough places during my final decade in particular. —

Indeed  the marines and all in military service Share the same virtues Under the most demanding of conditions, the men and women who wear our nation’s uniform, consistently display valor, creativity, initiative and resolve – and I was privileged to see those qualities up close during most of the last decade on places like Iraq and Afghanistan. 

Thanks as I now lead another group of patriots – our country’s silent warriors, the talented and courageous officers of the CIA—

Since 1919 continues to fulfill its mission, as the only private organization in the New York area to provide accommodations at subsidized rates and club-type facilities for servicemen and servicewomen, military retirees and veterans and their families visiting New York City. General James F. Amos, Mitzi Perdue, Robert McManus and special guest General David Howell Petraeus. PHOTO of USO girls, please credit herbertcollection.com.
Founded in 1919
“Serving Those Who Have Served Their Country”
Mission
“To promote the general welfare of men and women of the Armed Forces of the United States and its Allies, and their families, by maintaining and offering club and lodging rooms”
In 1919, Mrs. Cornelia Barnes Rogers and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. with General John J. Pershing founded The Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Club. In war and peace, without any U.S. Government funding and supported solely by donations of patriotic Citizens, it has ever since been a “Home Away From Home” for over 2,500,00 men and women of the Armed Forces and their families. We have exisited now for over ninety years with our warm, friendly, and safe enviroment providing hospitality and accommodations for 15,000 Armed Forces personnel annually.
With the continued help of our patriotic friends, it always will be.
Founders
General John J. Pershing Mrs. Cornelia Barnes Rogers
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
http://ssmaclub.org/

For Part One go to: http://goodnewsplanet.com/the-soldiers-sailors-marines-coast-guard-and-airmens-club-part-1/

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OPERATION WARRIOR WELLNESS
216 E. 45TH STREET, 12TH FLOOR • NEW YORK, NY 10017 •  1-212-644-9880 

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Founded in 1919

“Serving Those Who Have Served Their Country”

Mission

“To promote the general welfare of men and women of the Armed Forces of the United States and its Allies, and their families, by maintaining and offering club and lodging rooms”

In 1919, Mrs. Cornelia Barnes Rogers and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. with General John J. Pershing founded The Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Club. In war and peace, without any U.S. Government funding and supported solely by donations of patriotic Citizens, it has ever since been a “Home Away From Home” for over 2,500,00 men and women of the Armed Forces and their families. We have exisited now for over ninety years with our warm, friendly, and safe enviroment providing hospitality and accommodations for 15,000 Armed Forces personnel annually.

With the continued help of our patriotic friends, it always will be.

Founders

General John J. Pershing Mrs. Cornelia Barnes Rogers
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.

for more, go to http://goodnewsplanet.com/the-soldiers-sailors-marines-coast-guard-and-airmens-club-part-2/

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