African Americans have been free from slavery for almost 150 years, but are we really able to enjoy this freedom? many members of our population are forced to do jobs that we don’t have the slightest passion for, while working for people who don’t enjoy our presence. And once the work is done we are sent away.
On top of the economic pressures we face there is divide on how to educate our children, as well as threats from the violence that has taken many young lives in communities across the nation.
However if we are to move forward as a people, many argue the solution must come from us, we must create strategies that help build and maintain resources for our community and education must become our main concern, making it so our children learn more then what is given to them at school.
The forum: Wealth, Education, Family and Community: A New Paradigm for Black America is meant to start that conversation. Hosted by Minister Louis Farrakhan, Dr. Boyce Watkins and Your Black World, these important figures will conference on Saturday March 30 at 5 p.m. on African Americans’ need to change the way we pursue our wealth, education, and how to challenge the obstacles that stand in the way of Black progress. The event will take place at The UIC Forum on the campus of The University of Illinois at Chicago – 725 W Roosevelt (on the corner of Halsted and Roosevelt) and is free.
