Dancing in the Streets.

My ticket is final and I am at the point of no return - not that I want to.  On August 13 at 3:15PM, I will board a plane to ATL and fly directly on a  10 hour flight to Accra, Ghana.  We, in the U.S. have grown accustomed to planning and plotting in an effort to predict what will happen in response to a certain action.  I am no exception, but this journey will teach to dance to beat as I hear it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLBlQNF8dpQ&feature=related

Dunbarvillagetoghanvillage

My blog is found at:  fromdunbarvillagetotheghanavillage.  I was born and lived in Dunbar Village in West Palm Beach, FL. This community coined "the old project"  was my home until my family moved to to "the new projects" when I was 6 years old. Today Dunbar Village has received significant attention as the site for a vicious gang rape of a 35 year old woman for 3 hours by 14 - 18 year old suspects who forced her to perform sexual acts with her 12 year old son.

DISGUSTING - yes; DEFINING  of all who live there - Absolutely not!!!  Thanks to the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), this Dunbar Villager is headed to the Ghana Village to be a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in Kumasi, Ghana. 

Wikipedia Note:   Dunbar Village is a 246-unit public housing community located within the North Tamarind neighborhood of West Palm Beach, Florida. It is named after the late 19th and early 20th century poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar. The community was built from 1939 to 1940 for African Americans, shortly after the passage of the Housing Act of 1937, the community is one of the first public housing in the state of Florida.

Disclaimer: This blog and the views expressed in it do not represent the views of Fulbright or CIES