It's Important to Know You're Precious!

I love reporting on fashion but some of you know of my dedication to supporting teenage students and those who need mentoring. I wish we could eliminate the word "hopeless" from our vocabulary when we are talking about teens. When I volunteered for Maggie Daley's "After School Matters" program at IIT, I was impressed by the level of intelligence of these students that had been kicked out of several schools because they didn't have role models or mentors. Sometimes something so special comes along that requires all our attention. In this case, it is a movie supported by our own Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry called Precious based on the novel Push by Sapphire. It is the story of an overweight black teenager who is impregnated by her father twice and has little hope or self-esteem, until she meets the character played by Mariah Carey. We all need to reach out to help someone today to give them hope.