Did George Floyd’s last gasps for air breathe new life into Black organizations, Black businesses and the Black experience or did the knee on his neck traumatize a nation into a knee jerk mea culpa?
Those of us who still wage righteous and relentless struggle inwardly and outwardly to live a liberated, good and meaningful life will continuously find invaluable sources for grounding and growth in the enduringly relevant and deeply insightful sacred teachings of our ancestors found in the Odu Ifa.
Simeon, (who had tarried in the temple waiting and praying for the coming Messiah told Mary, “And a sword shall pierce through your soul also” (Luke2:35.) The prophetess, Anna was also there. She too had been waiting with fasting and prayers. Figuratively, “a sword” is represented in the bible as authority and power and sometimes war. Much of what we believe may not be researched information, nor factual.
In Georgia, defense attorneys are making the case that the three White men involved in killing Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man, were justified by a Civil War-era law instituted to catch runaway slaves.
November 4: Theo Wright becomes the first Black person to earn Theology Degree, 1836
Veterans Day was created as “Armistice Day” on November 11, 1919, the first anniversary of the end of World War I. It became a national holiday by an act of Congress in 1938. As we honor the memory of those who served in this great conflict, separately and apart from other occasions honoring our War service members, let us not forget the special struggles of Black Veterans, especially during the years following World War I.
November 3: Congressman Harold Ford was elected into House of Representatives , 1974
Michelle Obama’s next promotion for her memoir “Becoming” will center on college students.
November 2: Haile Selassie Becomes Emperor of Ethiopia, 1930
The National Guard had occupied Delaware’s largest city for nine months in the wake of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, and the trauma from both of these events left the Black community reeling, marking a moment in Wilmington’s history that city residents still recall today.
November 1: American Journalist, John E. Bruce Speaks on the “Return to the Ancestral Homeland,”1877
October 31: Great American Singer, Ethel Waters was born, 1900
October 30: Muhammad Ali VS. George Foreman
October 29: U.S. Supreme Court Act Against School Segregation, 1969