Read Black With Me

01/09/2025

“…..we have a profound and deep responsibility to understand what makes us human and what kind of geopolitical, social-cultural reality is necessary to support and advance our human possibility, probability and potential.

The Maafa is the denial of the validity of African people’s humanity.”
Baba Wade Nobles (page 25) 💎✊🏾

01/04/2025

A good one to start the 2025 calendar year….

04/29/2024

Tonight @6:00 CST
Akil Parker

04/18/2024

These books be keeping me up at night y'all....

03/20/2024

This weekend at Restoration New Direction Cultural Center
Saturday School
Wellness Day ✊🏾

03/19/2024

TODAY our Read Black With Me! scholars will start a new book! We're reading My Day With the Panye! These children absolutely keep me encouraged and inspired! They also encourage and motivate each other. Y'all better join us....together we can raise up a generation of READERS, THINKERS AND DOERS!!

In the hills above Port-au-Prince, Haiti, a young girl is eager to learn how to carry a panye, a large woven basket, to market like her Manman.

03/18/2024

“Reading is more important than watching tv….everything is in books.”
Dr. Frances Cress Welsing
3/18/1935

02/21/2024

"Alabama's gotten me so upset
Tennessee made me lose my rest
And everybody knows about Mississippi, goddamn"

Day 21 of the BHM Challenge...Listen to a Nina Simone song....it's her day, 2/21/1933 ✊🏿

02/17/2024

Day 17 of the challenge is to research Dr. Huey P. Newton (today is his day, 2/17/1942)I recommend his autobiography, Revolutionary Su***de.

I’d also like to introduce y’all to this phenomenal women….Dr. Cleopatra D. Thompson. She was born in Egypt, Mississippi…2/17/1912. AND just like last week, I want y’all to look her up and tell us something interesting about her in the comments. 🫶🏿✊🏾
“You must give your own story to the world.”
CGW