I Saw I Cried Click to view this article in its original format as it appeared in The Transformational Agenda Magazine Inspired by From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried by Carrie...
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The Educational Guidebook
We, as African Americans, constantly preach the importance of education and its benefits, but we don’t demand academic excellence from our children or ourselves. While St. Louis puts more educational options at the fingertips...
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20 Years Later
Let us examine our status 20 years in the future: people always ask me how it is that African-Americans were able to turn their stuff around at the dawn of the twenty-first century and...
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The Battle for and the Reconstruction of African American Culture
By Erin Falker CULTURE IS EVERYTHING! Culture defines every aspect of life and governs all behavior and choice. Culture dictates how we think, how we respond and relate to others, and how we view...
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Rethink Everything
Love Black As a people we do whacky self-destructive things to one another, as if we hate one another; and often constantly berate and belittle each other. Now is the time to stop these...
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Culture is Everything
EMPOWERMENT IS OUR RIGHT We have the power to make our lives, our families, and our communities extraordinary, and now is the time to tap into that hidden potential and make it a tangible...
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And the Vision Caught On
I have to do a report for school on The Transformational Agenda Movement? Were you a part of it?...
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An Epic Un-Civil War
Many of us are blind to it, deaf to it, refuse to speak of it. Its battlements and ramparts are our homes and community centers, our parks and churches. Its casualties are our friends,...
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A Tribute to Nelson Mandela
“THERE IS NO EASY WALK TO FREEDOM ANYWHERE, AND MANY OF US WILL HAVE TO PASS THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH AGAIN AND AGAIN BEFORE WE REACH THE MOUNTAINTOP OF OUR...
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10 Pillars of Empowerment
THERE ARE NO SECRETS TO EMPOWERMENT— only awareness and knowledge coupled with focus and concerted action. Those who empower themselves do so with the proven methods that anyone can incorporate into the lives; the...
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Darkness
by: Louis ConPhliction These are the problems that our kind was dealing with see back then… this was a time where black pride was diminishing, we was taken into slavery they misplacing and...
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The Educational Guidebook for Revitalizing St. Louis
The Catalyst for Revitalization and Empowerment We, as African Americans, constantly preach the importance of education and its benefits, but we don’t demand academic excellence from our children or ourselves. While St. Louis puts...
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WE DO NOT— BECAUSE WE KNOW NOT! WE NEED EACH OTHER. IT IS ALL ABOUT LOVE.
No one will ever heal our community for us. The challenges faced by the African American community are a direct result of slavery, but no one cares to even examine, much less, feel responsible...
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The New Passing
by: Erin Imena Falker I like to learn and knowledge is my passion. It pleases me in a way that nothing else can or ever has. There is no other feeling like discovering something...
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A Letter to My Enslaved Ancestors on the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
by: Rev. Dr. Wil Gafney A Letter to My Enslaved Ancestors, I don’t know your names or from where you were stolen. I don’t know how many of you freed yourselves or died in...
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Just Think-In
I just finished reading Willie Lynch’s speech, and find myself just think-in about the concept of negative mental legacies of slavery. Might the conditions of slavery, which were designed to break and remake human...
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Willie Lynch
… The Slave Consultant Gentlemen, I greet you here on the bank of the James River in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and twelve. First, I shall thank you, the...
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Cliff’s Notes
Authored by: Cliff Kodero, based on questions Kenndra Roberts has always wanted to ask Like a blind man seeing himself in the mirror for the very first time, my experience here in the United...
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