The man responded, “ I have a lot of felonies, and nobody wants to hire me because of that. I had to turn to the streets. I had to start stealing and robbing, in order to survive” I was short staffed that day, so I asked him.. “do you want to work”? His eyes opened Read More…
By John Thomas, III, Editor Decolonizing the AME Church By John Thomas, III, Editor On November 30 at midnight, the Caribbean country of Barbados celebrated the transition from a constitutional monarchy to a parliamentary republic. As a result, the island’s head of state would no longer be Queen Elizabeth II but a President elected Read More…
2025 SPIRITUAL: DECEMBER’s Psychology and Sociology Within Drumming Drumming therapy has potential to be therapeutic in a variety of ways. USING DRUMS FOR COMMUNICATION ALLOWED PEOPLE TO COMMUNICATE OVER VERY LONG DISTANCES OF THICK BRUSH AND JUNGLE. DRUM LANGUAGES AND SLAVERY. SOME OF THE DARKER HISTORY SURROUNDING THE USE OF DRUMS WAS ON SLAVE SHIPS Read More…
I am still hers. I am still hers. Its best to receive our African Ancestors as they appear. I’ve learned it’s best not to try to control how the memories of my mother show up, or what emotions they are wearing when they enter. This one is dressed in a rare crossbreed of inconsolable laughter Read More…
In Gainesville, over 1,000 community members came together to march through the city last summer. Many of them were students at the University of Florida, carrying on Gainesville’s significant legacy of student activism, dating back to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and ‘60s. Since the Civil Rights Movement, groups of UF students and Read More…
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