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Posts tagged with "Fannie Lou Hamer"
A healthy me for a healthy you
Mar. 6 | When we speak about health, oftentimes physical health comes to mind first. Physical health is important for everyone to be attentive to. Just as equally, we need to be attentive to our mental and spiritual health as well. As Black folks, we have...
America in the Age of Obama
Jan. 30 | In a recent workshop held on the campus of Macalester College in St. Paul on the state and condition of America in the age of Obama, it was agreed that our president and the symbol that the presidency represents is its highest compliment, the ultimate...
Wake up! We’re still invisible!
Mar. 28 | “There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.” – Fannie Lou Hamer Last night’s “Urban Agenda” radio show was one of those that unfolds as it is in motion, a potpourri...
Women ADVANCE to take the lead
Jan. 25 | A primarily Black Urban Women’s Movement is officially launched By Vickie Evans-Nash Contributing Writer On Saturday, January 21, approximately 200 people — overwhelmingly women, predominantly African American, with...
Your turn to speak up has arrived Critical thinking in the village
Jan. 25 | “With the people, for the people, by the people, I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, ’cause that’s what really happens.” — Fannie Lou Hamer As we celebrate the life...
Black wisdom: for our collective prosperity in 2012
Dec. 28 | Critical thinking in the Black Independence Movement “We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends,” a lesson from Mary McLeod...
