Ideology

Originally published in Southport Living (December 2025)Written by Theresa Painter. Photos by Kristin Gettleman. In the tranquil, waterfront community of Indigo Plantation in Southport, you’ll find Otis L. Lee, Jr. and Michelle Palmer Lee, a couple whose lives are as rich and varied as the…

Lang Dixon, a perennial Million Dollar Roundtable Award Producer, was the quintessential estate planning life insurance agent. As a team Lang and I implemented estate plans for many of Philadelphia’s most Black citizens.

When the time came to move to Charlottesville, it was the summer of 1960. For all we knew Charlottesville might as well have been in Charlotte, North Carolina which was named for Queen Charlotte of England. I was thirteen years old, having finished the sixth grade at Baker Upper Elementary School. My father was hired by Paul H. Cale, the superintendent of Albemarle County Schools, to be the new principal of a new Black elementary School, Virginia L. Murray, being completed in

Now, I am not a historian but I am, a student of history. As one of my favorite historians, John Hope Franklin, has said, I am self tutored on many of these matters. Perhaps self tutoring is the best way to learn anything thoroughly.

Economists view the price system within the macro economy as a function of supply and demand and market share. Prices can be determined by particular producers who exercise price leadership and market share in a particular industry or in a particular commodity. The allocation of resources and their scarcity is also a factor in determining price. A market mechanism normally is required to determine prices. The dictionary definition of price is “the amount of money needed t

To the family, pulpit guest, and to all of you who have come to pay respects to my friend and to your friend Bryant McCl oskey, good morning and greetings. I am delighted to see so many of my friends from New York life and from my professional days here in Philadelphia. Venessa, when she asked me to say some words about her father, allotted me 2 minutes and I have already used 30 seconds of that time. So let me get right to it.

Keynote Speech by Otis Lee, Jr. Esq at Cedar Grove circa 2019, on culture and hard work; taking advantages of opportunities by building on our ancestors' achievements.

The forefathers of this organization had the vision and courage to embark on a mission of salvation to improve the health and welfare of this community, a community, at that time that suffered from the twin afflictions of deprivation and the extremes of incivility to say the least. Through later generations the ethic of hard work and perseverance continued and it is a challenge to those of you who have taken on the mantle of leadership to perpetuate that legacy.