Desires of a Daughter’s Heart
by: Nikki Smith Today, during practice, my chess coach asked what my strategy was. I quickly babbled my plan to use my pieces to maneuver...
Masters of our Fate: Captains of our Souls
by: Nikki Smith “It matters not how strait the gate…I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.” –William Ernest...
A Declaration of Truth
The Transformational Agenda Magazine.
20 Years Later
20 YEARS LATER Let us examine our status 20 years in the future: people always ask me how it is that African-Americans were able to...
The Educational Guidebook for Revitalizing St. Louis
The Catalyst for Revitalization and Empowerment We, as African Americans, constantly preach the importance of education and its benefits, but we don’t demand academic excellence...
WE DO NOT— BECAUSE WE KNOW NOT! WE NEED EACH OTHER. IT IS ALL ABOUT LOVE.
No one will ever heal our community for us. The challenges faced by the African American community are a direct result of slavery, but no...
The Transformational Agenda Retreat
The Catalyst of Our Healing Transformation
The New Passing
by: Erin Imena Falker I like to learn and knowledge is my passion. It pleases me in a way that nothing else can or ever...
A Letter to My Enslaved Ancestors on the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
by: Rev. Dr. Wil Gafney A Letter to My Enslaved Ancestors, I don’t know your names or from where you were stolen. I don’t know...
Just Think-In
I just finished reading Willie Lynch’s speech, and find myself just think-in about the concept of negative mental legacies of slavery. Might the conditions of...
Willie Lynch
… The Slave Consultant Gentlemen, I greet you here on the bank of the James River in the year of our Lord one thousand seven...
Cliff’s Notes
Authored by: Cliff Kodero, based on questions Kenndra Roberts has always wanted to ask Like a blind man seeing himself in the mirror for the...
Kimberly Denson
Most children in the supermarket checkout lane beg their parents for candy. Kimberly begged for hair magazines. She has always had a hunger to stay...
Law Office of Celestine Dotson
When a legal issue arises, a legal advocate is needed that is truly committed to gaining a great outcome for you—someone that will go the...