Hotep Azzahir, an elder in the Black community, discusses the importance of studying Blackness and the need for cultural reconstruction to relieve the psychological pressure of history and build community connections and institutions to restore intergenerational knowledge sharing.
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Reflect on our history in this season of remembering and healing
Hotep. During this season of reflection, please remember that contrary to what you may believe or have been taught, the history of the Africans in America does not begin with slavery. In addition, the continent of Africa is not the “dark continent” and Africans are not pagans or heathens. Africans are not a people without […]
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Maxfield Elementary School celebrates 125th year anniversary
Maxfield Elementary School is one of four schools located in the Saint Paul Promise Neighborhood. The other three are Benjamin E. Mays, Jackson Elementary and the Saint Paul City. On May 10th Maxfield Elementary is celebrating its 125th anniversary.
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The parent is the first teacher
The future struggle for the African is a cognitive one. Cognition is a word that includes two words “with + knowledge.”