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The Happily Natural Day Happily Natural Day promotes holistic health, culture and social change.

Happily Natural Day is grassroots festival dedicated to holistic health, cultural awareness and social change. The festival promotes pride in being of African descent because for over 400 years Africans all over the globe were taught by the western educational system that African people were savages. Happily Natural Day has now reached it's 14th consecutive year in Richmond Virginia - the former capital of the confederacy.

The State of the Work Circa 2018
11/06/2026

The State of the Work Circa 2018

Richmond’s built environment bears the scars of racial inequality inherent in slavery, Jim Crow discrimination and economic marginalization. We see the ripple effects in who has access to hea…

Ways to Support Black Urban Farmers in Your Area
11/06/2026

Ways to Support Black Urban Farmers in Your Area

1. Join a CSA: A CSA (Community Sustained Agriculture) is a share of the farmers harvest for a season (3 months). You enter into an agreement with the farmer in advance of his/her planting and inve…

Watch The Role of Meat in the Human Diet – John McDougall
11/06/2026

Watch The Role of Meat in the Human Diet – John McDougall

This is dr. John McDougall’s amazing video lecture The Role of Meat in the Human Diet (2004) where he clearly demonstrates that the human body was never intended to process much meat at all a…

 : How to Empower Black Girls: Angela Patton Visits Happily Natural Day
10/06/2026

: How to Empower Black Girls: Angela Patton Visits Happily Natural Day

 

AJASS and The Grandassa Models – Origins of the Black is Beautiful Movement
10/06/2026

AJASS and The Grandassa Models – Origins of the Black is Beautiful Movement

AJASS and The Grandassa Models – Origins of the Black is Beautiful Movement In 1956 a group of young artists and jazz lovers, formed The Jazz-Art Society (soon to be renamed The African Jazz-Art …

Dr. Amos Wilson – Black on Black Violence
10/06/2026

Dr. Amos Wilson – Black on Black Violence

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Letter of Resignation from the Maggie Walker CLT Board
10/06/2026

Letter of Resignation from the Maggie Walker CLT Board

I was invited to join the board of the Maggie Walker Community Land Trust by Bob Adams while serving as Community Engagement Manager at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. The proposal made a lot of sen…

10 Challenges Faced by People of Color in Non Profit Spaces
09/06/2026

10 Challenges Faced by People of Color in Non Profit Spaces

10 Challenges faced by People of Color in Non Profit Spaces 1. Most grant resources tend to be directed through white led intermediaries before getting to the community. 2. Conversations amoung fun…

On the Interdependence of Urban and Rural Black Folk
09/06/2026

On the Interdependence of Urban and Rural Black Folk

This Article is first in a series discussing race, history, rural and urban life and their intersections The Interdependence of Urban and Rural Black Folk I just finished watching Ma Rainey’s Black…

Why a Community Land Trust?
09/06/2026

Why a Community Land Trust?

(A Long but necessary read to imagine black futures that are inclusive of black people having and owning homes and food to eat) You might ask what the hell is a community land trust? Let me put you…

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