Posts tagged Martin Luther King

Just name one case over the past two decades where Sharpton’s activism has brought about systemic change?

This is when all of the activists, mentors, educators, and students come together.

Hailing from public housing and poverty in New Jersey, Michael Anderson a/k/a Mike Philson is the poster-child for achieving the impossible, receiving an Ivy League education.

So many of our communities are in crisis, but we’ve come to accept crisis mode as reality. Murder has become so commonplace that we don’t allow ourselves to fully feel the effects of it. We distance ourselves from the tragedy.

Achieving Dr. MLK Jr.’s Dream of Sustenance. Rev. Sampson has been developing an Economic Blueprint of Liberation for 35+ Years. Agriculture FOR the People is the mission. In order to build infrastructure in Black communities, we need an ecosystem of trade and sustainable products delivery.

What if rappers decided to use their music like Pussy Riot has and called attention to situations such as Trayvon Martin, Oscar Grant, Sean Bell, Rekia Boyd and the numerous other examples of atrocities that seem to primarily afflict Black people, poor people, and, especially, poor Black people?

Legendary producer and engineer Malcolm Cecil worked alongside Wonder and Scott-Heron as they embarked on the tour to help spur on the passage of the bill in Congress.