PLEASE PASS THIS ON! (EACH ONE TEACH ONE OR TWO!) THIS IS PHASE ONE ON HOW WE CAN HELP TO STRENGTHEN & EMPOWER OUR COMMUNITY: The 2008 not guilty verdict in the Sean Bell case evoked outrage, emotion, and debate. It is not an anomaly that the police officers involved in the Sean Bell slaying […]
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Quote Of The Day
“And I began to realize that I had overworked a theory- that the cause of the problem was the ignorance of the people…The cure wasn’t simply telling people the truth, it was inducing them to act on the truth.” -W.E.B DuBois Tweet
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OPPRESSED: “To be oppressed is by definition to have one’s thought processes disturbed; emotions impaired; motives and values inverted; and one’s body functions imbalanced.” -From, “The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness” By: Amos N. Wilson Tweet
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“Graduating from Fisk University in Nashville in 1888, he took a second bachelor’s degree at Harvard in 1890 and an MA in history there in 1892, then went to Europe for two years’ study at Friedrich-Wilhelm University in Ohio and the next year became the first black to be awarded as Ph.D. at Harvard. In […]
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“In the first place I was very much annoyed because nothing was ever said about Negroes in the textbooks, while, on the other hand, I, as a Negro in this school, seemed to be looked upon as unusual by everybody. Now, if I was unusual in this school, and a sort of curiosity, then the […]
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“During the Cold War, the U.S. establishment very much wanted to project itself as a liberal and tolerant, and multi-racial society because they were in a competition with the Soviet Union for influence over the emergent nations in Africa and Asia. The problem was that the U.S. wasn’t actually like that. The world that emerged […]
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PLEASE PASS THIS ON! (EACH ONE TEACH ONE OR TWO!) THIS IS PHASE ONE ON HOW WE CAN HELP TO STRENGTHEN & EMPOWER OUR COMMUNITY: The 2008 not guilty verdict in the Sean Bell case evoked outrage, emotion, and debate. It is not an anomaly that the police officers involved in the Sean Bell slaying […]
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In 2007, Barrington Irving successfully took a flight around the world. He became the youngest person to pilot a plane around the world solo. His trip lasted 96 days and 150 hours. He took his flight in a Columbia 400 plane that he named “Inspiration.” Barrington Irving turned down several football scholarship to focus on […]
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“There is no other American community in which the huge bulk of local business, from the smallest to the largest, is operated by outsiders.” -Claude McKay Tweet
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Scientist, Dr. Masaru Emoto, did an experiment on the power of words and intentions. He used water as his test subject. This was pertinent because the human body is mostly composed of water. Dr. Masaru spoke loving words to one glass of water, and hateful words to another. He found that the water that received […]
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