Rebuild

Us: How do we rebuild the community? Ancestors: Start Here… Until Next Time…

Reactionaries vs. Revolutionaries

“Black Love is a revolutionary act.” That quote has been used by African-centered scholars like Dr. Frances Cress Welsing and Dr. Amos Wilson for some time, but I didn’t grasp its true meaning until I started looking at the plight of African people through a political lens. Many of our discussions surrounding Black Empowerment involve…

Teammates

A group of individuals who are interdependent with respect to information, resources, knowledge, and skills and who seek to combine their efforts to achieve a common goal. Until Next Time…

Respect

“The highest level of respect people give you usually comes based on how you treat your woman.” – Duke Ihenacho Until Next Time…

Trinity

Greetings Everyone, In a previous post, the topic of marriage and its current value in the new millennium was discussed. The main argument was that only half of Americans are married and 40% of unmarried adults believe marriage has now become obsolete. Well, this recently led me to start questioning the value of family, more…

Words From The Wise: Dr. Amos Wilson

“Children are ultimately born to the community because they will influence the nature of the community. If the children that are born in the community are self-hating, have problems with their identity, or self-controlled or destructive and so forth, you will see a community that will fall apart, a community that is at odds with…

A Royal Union

Greetings Everyone, The trending topic of the week has been the engagement of Prince Harry and actress Meghan Markle. Although I couldn’t care less about this news, it did lead me to question other royal unions that take place throughout the globe. So I did a little research and found a very interesting story, by…

#Goals

Greetings Everyone, I was walking around my apartment complex last night when I saw a couple, with their toddler, having a picnic out on the lawn area. Seeing this family interact with each other instantly made me think of a line from rapper J. Cole’s song, Love Yourz.  “Always gon’ to be a bigger house somewhere,…