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Ingrid Johnson, Chair of the Newark Reentry Advisory Board and Scott Earl, Office Manager of the City of Newark's Office of Reentry discuss the successes of the Booker Administration's Prisoner Reentry Initiative

Martin Luther King speeches are a fantastic way to get to know him and his ideology,  What a fantastic man and what a fantastic era. He was a man of concentration.
Martin Luther King speeches.
May 19th is Malcolm X’s birthday… check out his videos.  Malcolm X Speeches.  He too was  remarkable, and concentrated with a admirable focus. Yet even tho this day is for Martin, being African and a woman I would not leave out the wonderful women who have paved the way for us and who had a focus, a concentration.

What do you think your Ancestors would think about us? Would you think that we are carrying on their heritage, their culture, their right to their inheritance? And what legacy will we leave?

When we have moved along through this passage of understanding, and we can feel the power, we must give “of” ourselves more. Why? Because, like our ancestors, we, too, must grab those and help them along the way, like the warrior Harriet Tubman. Harriet, born into slavery in 1820 in the United States, had to research the safe places for her people to stay. She returned time and time again, bringing our sisters and brothers as far through as into Canada.

You must concentrate and control you mind. That is the way to reach your desired and any goals in your life; whether it is to work towards a license, a degree, or something more immediate. That depends on you.

Know that what you consciously think of is most times and generally cluttered with various and too much information. Our focus is most times a bit off kilter. For those who have the concentration method down pat, your toil is less. But for many of us, we may have so many things in and on our mind at once and that blocks us from focusing on what we really desire.  In our culture everything seems counterintuitive to doing so.

Anything that you desire requires concentration. Mary Seacole, had the precision of concentration when tending to her patients during a cholera outbreak in the 1800’s. Thousands of years before Common Era, Emhotb the Ancient Egyptian doctor had the discipline and concentration to design the first stepped pyramid. The Isonghee of Zaire when fleshing out mathematics in BCE required astute concentration.  Ahmad Baba al Massufi the eminent scholar from the Western Sudan used judicious concentration to write over more than 40 books particularly on legal historical writings in the 16-17 century.  Wangari Maathai, from Kenya, had the astute concentration on the environment and became the first African woman in 2004 to win a Nobel Peace prize. The famous Thespian Ira Aldridge of Senegalese decent beheld impressive concentration to be the only African with a bronze plaque at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. Tehuti of Egypt was the impact of universities which concentrated on chemistry, psychology, mathematics, physics, and much more, which is the basis of today’s schooling. Queen of Ndongo from Angola drew in warrior concentration when she forged her blueprint against invaders of her land in the 1500s. These are your ancestors and if they were able to achieve this, so can you. So, what is in your mind?

Happy Birthday to Martin and to all of our ancestors! We love you.

Shades of Beautiful African Black Men are Everywhere

African American Male Achievement (AAMA) -  Oakland School District -Improving Outcomes for Black Male Students devoted to fostering practices that accelerate the development of African-American boys.

Van Jones
Rebuild The Dreams's Van Jones introduces #YesWeCode, a nationwide initiative to help train 100,000 low-opportunity youth to code. Learn more at http://www.yeswecode.org

25 Black Men Making Detroit Stronger
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Acting Harry Lennix Discusses New Film and the Politics of Acting and Subservient Roles, and the Color of God in the media

Bryan Stevenson
There are particular racial issues, which are wrapped up in America's unexamined history. Human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America's justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of the country's black male population has been incarcerated at some point in their lives.

Melissa Harris-Perry read the names of some of the hundreds of men who were killed by police across the country "in the past decade alone. All of the men she mentioned were unarmed at the time of their death. 

This stayed with me. I have others but this one stayed with me because of how angry my grandmother was with me for leaving to get ice-cream without telling her. I can remember my grandmother taking me to her home in the south and her warning me not to get in no sheriffs car. I was just going for ice-cream in a store and the sheriff came along and offered to drive me home but I recall my grandmother saying. “don’t get in no sheriff’s car”. 

Taken as prisoners from Africa into the slavery institution, Khalil explains what the next step of the plan is.
Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad observes in his book The Condemnation of Blackness

 If you can walk, walk, if you can teach, teach. If you can speak, speak. If you can influence, influence. If you can protests, protest. If you can boycott, boycott. If you are good at writing, write. If you are a political artist, then paint away. If you can work the media, work the media Find your skill and use it, no matter what age. Learn history  of reformation. If you can learn legislative, and judicial processes do that because that part of  activism assists in the  in the legal process of change. If you are wondering how to best apply your law skills, think  well. There are so many cases that need you now. You  as an individual can make changes. You may have  underestimated your power. .Use your mind for new innovation. You are smart you are beautiful you can make changes. Remember to get plenty of rest, for the work to be done.