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Jodi Davis takes her dogs Skyla and Izzie for a walk. She walks daily, no excuses, often with her dogs. "It's great for them, too," she says.

Journey toward weight loss begins with one step

Cassandra Spratling Detroit Free Press

Last updated Monday, June 25, 2012 - 2:29pm

DETROIT — Loretta Moore looked at herself in the mirror one morning and didn’t like what she saw.

“I was ridiculously overweight,” Moore said. “I couldn’t get into most of my clothes anymore.”

Standing 5-feet-4, Moore weighed 252 pounds.

That image was all it took for Moore, 56, of Detroit to start walking regularly.

It took a funeral for Jodi Davis.

At the funeral of a relative, she watched as the woman’s son cried at his mother’s casket. The woman who had died was in her early 40s.

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Edith Lee-Payne of Detroit stands in front of an image of herself (at the age of 12), taken at the March on Washington, after participating in a Black History Month program at the Detroit School of the Arts.

Many faces associated with historic March on Washington

Cassandra Spratling Detroit Free Press

Last updated Sunday, February 26, 2012 - 8:22am

DETROIT -- When Americans celebrate Black History, especially when it has anything to do with the March on Washington, it's often an innocent girl's face they see -- in textbooks, on calendars, on brochures.

The photo of this little girl was taken by a freelance photographer working for the U.S. government. The original is stored in the National Archives, where for decades its caption identified the girl simply as a "young child in March on Washington."

But the nameless child is anonymous no more. Thanks to her own research and the work of staff at the National Archives, an identifying notation was added to the file.

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