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Be The Change

Posted on July 30, 2020April 27, 2021 by Life Preservers Project

Written by Guest Author: Nancy A. Ruffin It has been a really rough year so far. As we head into our third month of quarantine because of Covid-19, America finds itself fighting yet another illness, that which is White supremacy. Racism is...Read More

The Discussion Starts With Each of Us

Posted on June 16, 2020April 27, 2021 by Nikki Samuels

Over the last few weeks, we have been grappling with the senseless and horrific killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and most recently Rayshard Brooks, as well as the 911 calls to the police about people of color...Read More

Do More, Be More, Help More!

Posted on March 27, 2020April 27, 2021 by Jessie Torres

On March 12, 2020, I attended an event on Civil Rights & Human Trafficking at Nova Southeastern University’s Shepard Broad Law Center (in Fort Lauderdale, Florida). I attended despite the initial concerns hitting the U.S. news about Coronavirus. The...Read More

Super Bowl Response

Posted on February 5, 2020April 27, 2021 by Life Preservers Project

Super Bowl LIV provided America with a rare sporting moment: “nothing to hate” unless you’re from Northern California or Missouri. Both teams are jammed packed with young superstars who play hard ball. Plus, let’s all be honest, Andy Reid...Read More

Signs of Human Trafficking

Posted on January 30, 2020April 27, 2021 by Life Preservers Project

Present-day bondage and modernized enslavement including sex trafficking and involuntary coercion, otherwise infamously defined as human trafficking. The widespread and history-long epidemic still maintains its prevalence to this day with human trafficking only becoming illegal in the United States at...Read More