by Maria Hayley | Feb 16, 2019 | News, Resources
HEY BLACK CHILD Useni's Gift To celebrate the third week of African American History Month, February 2019, we are posting a video of “HistoryMaker” Useni Eugene Perkins reading his poem “Hey Black Child.” The poem calls to Black children to...
by Maria Hayley | Feb 9, 2019 | Resources
LIFT EV'RY VOICE and SING lyrics for everyone “Everyone should have a copy of this song.” This statement was made by Queen Mother Reverend Helen Sinclair, Executive Director of Jessie “Ma” Houston Prison Outpost of Rainbow Push Coalition....
by Maria Hayley | Feb 2, 2019 | Resources
Roots: The Saga of an American Family By Alex Haley Roots – both the book and the original mini-series, as well as the 1988 update (Roots: The Gift) and the History channel remake of 2016 – have been cited for their initial and enduring impact on American...
by Maria Hayley | Jan 26, 2019 | Resources
Siddhartha By Hermann Hesse When a former drug addict and previously incarcerated man was asked what led to his transformation as the dedicated, altruistic community leader he had become, he shared that it began while reading the book Siddhartha when he was...
by Maria Hayley | Jan 19, 2019 | Resources
HAPPINESS In EXTREMIS "A Piece of Good News" Who has not heard of The Diary of Anne Frank? When Anne wrote it while hiding with her family in a cramped attic to escape Nazi capture, she thought that “later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the...
