“The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.” -Robert Frost Tweet
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Anecdote Of The Week: The Power of Fear
“According to legend, one day a man was wandering in the desert when he met Fear and Plague. They said they were on their way to a large city where they were going to kill 10,000 people. The man asked Plague if he was going to do all the work. Plague smiled and said, ‘No, […]
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On this date in 1915, Carter G Woodson founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. Tweet
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“Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.” -William J. H. Boetcker Tweet
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“The French empire in the West Indies was built on sugar production and the labor of enslaved Africans. The Code Noir, a French legal code, regulated slavery in the West Indies. Though it was never made law in Canada, New France’s slaveholders applied the Code Noir when they thought it necessary. In 1685, when the […]
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“Henry Bibb, who escaped from slavery in Kentucky and moved to Canada in 1850, published the country’s first Black newspaper, “The Voice of the Fugitive,” in which he recorded the narratives or numerous escaped slaves.” -From, “The Hanging of Angelique” By: Afua Cooper Tweet
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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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“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.” -Stevie Wonder Tweet
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