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Bro. Melech E. M. Thomas of Bethel AME presents... "Is Superman Still Coming And Do We Even Need Him?" Panel on Urban Education Reform at Bethel AME Church, 1300 Druid Hill Ave., Baltimore, Md. 21217! Friday, June 7th at 7pm
Empowering Voices Speaks with Karen Lewis, President of the Chicago Teachers Union
Another forty white men have killed themselves tonight
Lannan Foundation and Nation Books presented Chris Hedges with Reverend Jeremiah Wright on 12 November 2012 at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Hedges spoke about poverty in the U.S., then followed by a conversation with Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
It is not suppose to happen here." This phrase is uttered after every mass killing in pristine and pure suburban America. The latest casualty in American gun culture was described by the Consoler-in-Chief as a "quiet town full of good and decent people." Six and 7-year-old bodies riddled with military grade bullets fired by an assault weapon not in Baghdad or Kabul but a rather small town "that could be any town in America."
On January 12, 2013, a film screening of the Emmy-nominated film, The House I Live In, will be made available, without cost, to all faith communities in the United States.
“The most important area for the exercise of independent effort is economic. After a people have established successfully a firm industrial foundation they naturally turn to politics and society, but not first to society and politics, because the two latter cannot exist without the former.” Marcus Garvey By James Clingman Centuries ago Black people in...
Empowering Voices talks with Jean-Claude Brizard, CEO of Chicago Public Schools
"The calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak, ...We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak." - MLK
“It’s time out for moaning, groaning and complaining. SOBWC III is about examining real models and solutions to real problems, learning from each other, embracing each other, and developing strategies to engage the struggle to empower our communities.
