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A Black Girl's Guide to a Desert Walk

Not in the Mojave Desert or the Sonoran. Not in Joshua Tree National Park or the land of giant saguaros, Saguaro National Park. Her stroll, each step, winds through a man-made desert called Desert Garden.

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I Too Explore the Plants, the Trees

The kapok tree. It’s native to tropical regions around the world, but Henry Huntington decided to have one in his front yard, right outside his mansion, now a museum.

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Both Men Made History

“The only interest I have ever had in herbology is healing. It certainly isn’t money because the money I was making as a steam engineer I could never make with the herbs because the herbs were less popular in 1980 than now. It definitely was another interest, a greater dictate that drove me to herbology.”

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Adio Akil Talks Up Her Mentor, The Audio Transcript

He shared with so many people and I was one of them. He shared so much information, so much of his time, and so much of his research, so much of his love with so many different people that now that he’s passed, he’s more popular and accepted than he ever was.

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2022 Year-End Review: A Good Time to talk About the Food-Mucus-Cancer Connection

Talking about the effects of mucus instead of skimming and delaying action on the topic that’s published in articles and newsletters is half the battle won in breast cancer prevention and the cure. A good springboard for discussion is “Mucus Plays Key Role in Cancer,” published in The Harvard Gazette, April 29, 2004.

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Your Living Shall Not Be in Vain

He committed over 30 years of his life traveling down that road, a road his protégé Adio Akil believed he would journey on for many years to come. But his death in August 2016 upended that notion, leaving Adio compelled to continue in the same vein as her mentor.

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Like Father Like Daughter, And Yes, She's Cured AIDS Too

“I’m still actively doing all the things that my father taught me. I don’t want anyone to feel that because he’s gone now everything else is,” Xave said in an interview from her home in Georgia. Next Generation Herbal Products is also based there and sprang up—due to public demand—after her father died in Honduras, Central America, in 2016.”

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A Black Girl's Guide to a Man From the Bush

“Love for a Moment,” a plant he loves back, shacks up in the village feeling no shame in populating this oasis in the tropics. The man from the bush revels in sharing his beloved botanical beauty with the awestruck Black Girl.

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