Iyanla Explains Why She's Leaving 'Fix My Life': 'I Don’t Want That Energy In My Life Anymore'

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Iyanla Explains Why She's Leaving 'Fix My Life': 'I Don’t Want That Energy In My Life Anymore'

Iyanla Vanzant said that the choice to end her show “Iyanla, Fix My Life” is “liberating,” and she’s now ready to move on to the next stage of her life.

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Having a sharecropper and a slave as his ancestors, the eighth child of Munn and Lilly Barrow, Joseph Louis Barrow, was born on May 14, 1914, in a cotton-field country near Alabama. Belonging to a financially weak family, Joe Louis received little education as a child and worked odd jobs in order

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(1849) Charles Sumner, “Equality Before the Law: Unconstitutionality of Separate Colored Schools in Massachusetts”

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(1830) Rev. Peter Williams, Jr. “This is Our Country”

Fourteen years after its founding the American Colonization Society remained controversial among African Americans. By 1830 many of them opposed it and more generally the idea of forced or voluntary repatriation of blacks to Africa. One of these opponents, Rev. Peter Williams, Jr., the minister

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(1838) Sara T. Smith, “Loosening the Bonds of Prejudice”

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(1874) John Mercer Langston, “Equality Before the Law”

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