DuEwaWorld News! by DuEwa Frazier

Norma DeShields Brown is a woman like you and I, who has gone through her share of personal pain and then triumph. Rather than bury the hurt of losing a loved one, Brown, an evangelic counselor in Chicago, chose to write down her daily hopes, dreams and reflections and pray amidst her time of need. What came out of Brown's spiritual reflection was the inspirational book, Joy Comes This Morning . Each beautifully written passage in Joy Comes this Morning is designed to give the reader motivation toward spiritual and emotional healing with scriptural reference. Brown speaks from a place of love and personal truth within the passages of the book such as: "You Are So Beautiful", "Hit the Power Switch", "Do It God's Way", and "You Are Invincible." Joy Comes This Morning reveals the spiritual pearls of wisdom that we all need to catch a little sunshine in our everyday lives.

When you reminisce over hip hop, where do your thoughts take you? Do you think about the night you went to the roller rink with your friends and you heard NWA's "Express Yourself" pumping loud from the DJ booth, inspiring you to dance to the 70's beats in the song? Or maybe you think about the times you chilled out at the park in your car, with your boyfriend or girlfriend when L.L. Cool J.'s "I Need Love" played on the radio? If you're like me, you may reminisce about your college days: the parties in the student union, the walks with your friends across the bridge to the nearby store, the sorority and fraternity step shows. All of these memories have hip hop wrapped around them. We lived, loved and laughed, riding on the beats of songs by old school and new school hip hop artists. Within the pages of The Message: 100 Life Lessons From Hip Hop's Greatest Songs , author Felicia Pride shares similar memories with us and invokes our hip hop laced ...