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We are launching the Know Thyself Grassroots Movement not as a program, but as a reckoning. A spiritual awakening. A cultural uprising. A return to the power buried beneath generations of distortion. From the sacred walls of the Luxor Temple in ancient Kemet (Egypt) comes the eternal command: “Man, know thyself, and you will know the gods.” This was not poetry, it was instruction. Among ancient Nile Valley people, to know oneself was to unlock the divine force within. And somewhere along the journey of African history… we were taught to forget.
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HBCUs were established to educate Black Americans who were denied access to many predominantly white institutions. Land-grant universities and church-supported colleges across the country created opportunities for higher education, but they also fostered a powerful sense of belonging and cultural expression.
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If you follow Stephanie on Twitter, then you know she does not bite her tongue. She reminded me that she was and will always be a Brooklyn girl. “It is unfortunate that we have some African American who do not know their worth. I know my worth and it does not require that I withhold speaking truth and biting my tongue.”
Walt Carr Jr. Releases a Collection of his Legendary Cartoons By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire…
It’s a night of classic R&B and soul when the Broward Center for the Performing Arts presents The Whispers and Stephanie Mills on Friday, October 4.
LACK GIRLS ROCK! presented the Mothers of the Movement — women whose children were killed by gun violence or a police officer — with the 2019 Community Change Agent Award on BET. Sybrina Fulton, Gwen Carr, Congresswoman Lucy McBath, Maria Hamilton and Cleopatra Pendleton-Cowley were in attendance to accept the award.
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