H ELL ATLANTA ISSUE 6 I FEBRUARY 2024
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H ELL ATLANTA President and Chief Executive Of f icer Vice President Executive Editor Managing Editor Director of Information Technology Contributing Writers
Julius P. Hall Charlie Brown Epiphany L. Williams Dr. Amir Toure' Chris Smith Dr. Amir Toure? Sharon Butts Craig Butts Andromeda Gibbons Artemus Gibbons Anderson Aries Stephen Spence Tori Anderson Julius P. Hall
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20. The Las t Pag e o f Dying --- And er s o n Ar ies 23. The Do ubl e Lif e o f Bo bby Lo ve --- St ephen Spenc e 27. Sheil a C. Jo hns o n: Jus t Cal l Me Sheil a --- And r o med a Gibbo ns 29. Baba Ro ber t Nes t a Mar l ey ---Epiphany Wil l iams 31. Bl ac k Wo men Sk in Bl eac hing --- St ephen Spenc e 34 . I Am The Dr um, Mic hael Babat und e o l at unj i --- St ephen Spenc e
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Water hold perfet memory, meaning all of our Ancestors' lessons on freedm live within it. Let's take a dip. Throughout African folklore and spirituality, there are stories of water deities. Orisha Yemonja, turned Yemaya, became the ocean which our enslaved Ancestors traveled throughout the Middle Passage. During enslavement, certain bodies of wate were pivotal for rebellion. Some enslaved Afticans chose to revolt onboard ships, attacking enslavers before jumping into th sea. Runaways depended on rivers to hide their scent from trackers and foraged for food in swamps. In Louisiana, there are still religious communities that hold river baptisms. Those water rituals can be traced back to Africa. The San people of southern Africa held rainmaking ceremonies. When anti-Black missionaries attempted to convert them, the San people didn't trust tehm because, for all the power they claimed their God had, they couldn't make it rain. Toni Morrison once said, "All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. " Changing from gas, to liquids, to ice, water 's natural state is freedom. The adult human body is 60% water, meaning the lessons of freedom water carries lives within us. How can we look into water to help us remember that, prior to colonization and enslavement, our primary mode of being was free? We can use ur wtaery rememberings to pour into creating futures dripping in liberation.
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How Much Does a Dream Cost? Th e Pr in ciples of Bloodsh ed CHANCELLOR "CHUCH" HUDSON
People of all races sit on the sidewalk with picnic chairs to watch the parade carousel. Children dance and sing on a street named after Martin Luther King. Police who used German shepherds to attack black crowds are blocking the streets so traffic won?t interrupt now Whites also join in on this fun with black and brown folks. As the crowds and the noise of marching bands play in the thick of this warm Winter day in Savannah, Georgia, whites, and blacks together in 2024 is normal. The children who walked the streets today never saw segregation scenes but before 1964 this was only a dream.
As promised, If you want the pictures from the event, click this link below: 2024 MLK Day Parade Pictures
Th e Cost * Bow!* a soft-point, metal-jacketed hunting rifle fired a hot shell in the face of Brother King. A few years prior, he was stabbed in a Harlem New York street. In the same city, years later people murdered Malcolm X; and three years later Brother King just so happened to next. A hunting rifle? Don?t they use those for deer? Aren?t those guns used to hunt coyotes, and hogs for feast? How does a man in Memphis, Tennessee match that group of beasts? A price was paid that day and on this day we have those receipts. A parade gathering with all races of people on one street.
Th e Debt Why is every MLK street infested with poverty; and Project housing with police precincts across the street? How come MLK streets across America segregated? And all of the neighborhoods within the blocks are devastated? This is the debt of his death and this part is not worth celebrating. Communities on MLK Street are poor and contaminated with liquor stores, and fast foods and that?s the package. The street is the gift that wrapped people under poverty averages. Emmett Till moma said ?Where there?s no shedding of blood there?s no redemption? in an interview. In Hebrew 9:22 it says the same thing too. So, Forgive us our debts Lord as we forgive our debtors. Something similar was done to your son on two wood boards. Dr. King, even though America is in tremendous debt. Even though the facts are hard to digest. Even though your blood became the money for this trade, I love that all races of people can join hands for unity on MLK day. CHUCH!
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The Las t Pag e o f Dying It is a difficult page to turn. You are ready to be complete with the chapters you have read over many times. You are familiar with those steps taken before failure. By finishing, you are acknowledging success. It was a difficult read. To taste each word aloud; to know why letters are so heavy. You look again at the cover and you see others but you can't see what they have seen. When did having a new conversation with someone become scary. It's going to be difficult. And that is accepting the turns and the tears and the misread words and the unsure meaning between each line. You've filled them with all of you, the parts you like. It's time to express the hurt that comes with dying.
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Sh eila C. Joh n son : Ju st Call M e Sh eila How does a person choose a new over their first? They don't. Reading the story of Sheila C. Johnson began with wanting to understand someone's success story. Talking to my colleagues here at Hello Savannah, Hello Atlanta, Hello Jacksonville, and now Hello Africa; what started as a bid on what we were going to do for Black History Month, ended as a bet. Choose someone you think we should know more about that you didn't know before. I didn't really know anything about Sheila Johnson except for maybe hearing her name from time to time over the course of forty plus years. Now I am mesmerized.
about how her family was always there for her, that sort of story. The one that she shares in her book "Walk Through Fire: A Memoir of Love, Lost, and Triumph" will remove any fairytale assumptions. Did You Know? Sheila C. Johnson became the first female African American Billionaire after Black Entertainment Television (BET) , the company she cofounded in 1979, was bought by Viacom in 2001 for 3 Billion US.
Too many things hit hard during the telling of her story. The type of things that she lived with that could have truly crushed anyone, that on one side "they were proud of the fact that there was this Did You Know? Black History Month representation out there, and for it to have originally began as Negro History and scandal- it sort of shatters the image of Literature Week by the urging of Carter G. what we were trying to build." and on the Woodson. To learn more visit asalh.org. other "It was this constant berating of who I Association for the Study of African really was - my identity was being stripped." American Life and History. Sheila Johnson's father was a So, what was Sheila Johnson's first love? neurosurgeon, a military veteran, who was Music seems to stand out among the top. not allowed to practice in White hospitals. She was a competitive violinist who He could only work on people of color at the time and then only when Black patients became a statewide highschool were available. She moved 13 times as a champion in Illinois, as well as the first child. What she recalls as "the most painful African American to do so. Continuing thing for me to ever watch" was witnessing that love she became a music teacher at Sidwell Friends Private School where she the hardships of her mother manifest and finding her in a nervous breakdown as a founded the Young Strings in Action teenager when her father tells them "I'm youth Orchestra. As a fellow musician, I enjoyed learning this part about her, but I leaving." She tells us "I realized I had to wanted to understand what conditions in grow up suddenly," because of how few rights women had back then. her life pushed her to be so determined
and steadfast. I was expecting to find out
She speaks on how much we are suppressed as African Americans, how we are taught to be seen and not heard. Sheila C. Johnson "It just went against who I am. It's not in my DNA. And I love challenges." Did you know? Sheila C. Johnson is the only Black female co-owner of three professional sports teams. Moving forward, Sheila C. Johnson, now 74 at the time of this article, has not only become a successful entrepreneur and philanthropist, she is the owner of Salamander Hotel and Resorts (salamanderhotels.com) which began in Middleburg Virginia. The story behind the naming of "Salamander " is something you should really experience for yourself in her book. Instead we leave with this passage from sheilacjohnson.blog: "For those who may not know me, I am Sheila C. Johnson. But you can just call me Sheila. And while there are so many things I could say about myself, for simplicity sake, please consider me a recovering ? but proud and unbowed ? violin and cheerleading addict from Maywood, just west of Chicago. Also, please understand too that as both an African American and a woman ? one who came of age in the very heart of the white and male-dominated 1950?s and 60?s ? my perspective is that of something of an outsider, one who?s spent her entire life working and fighting, often against the longest of odds, to gain even the smallest toehold on the American Dream." - Andromeda Gibbons
Red emp t ion Song Robert Nesta Marley February 6, 1945 - May 11, 1981 Old pir at es, yes t h ey r ob I Sold I t o t h e m er ch an t sh ips M in u t es af t er t h ey t ook I Fr om t h e bot t om less pit Bu t m y h an d w as m ade st r on g By t h e h an d of t h e Alm igh t y We f or w ar d in t h is gen er at ion Tr iu m ph an t ly Won't you h elp t o sin g Th ese son gs of f r eedom ? 'Cau se all I ever h ave Redem pt ion son gs Redem pt ion son gs Em an cipat e you r selves f r om m en t al slaver y Non e bu t ou r selves can f r ee ou r m in ds Have n o f ear f or at om ic en er gy 'Cau se n on e of t h em can st op t h e t im e How lon g sh all t h ey k ill ou r pr oph et s Wh ile w e st an d aside an d look ? Ooh Som e say it 's ju st a par t of it We've got t o f u lf ill t h e book Won't you h elp t o sin g Th ese son gs of f r eedom ? 'Cau se all I ever h ave Redem pt ion son gs Redem pt ion son gs Redem pt ion son gs Em an cipat e you r selves f r om m en t al slaver y Non e bu t ou r selves can f r ee ou r m in d Have n o f ear f or at om ic en er gy 'Cau se n on e of t h em can st op t h e t im e How lon g sh all t h ey k ill ou r pr oph et s Wh ile w e st an d aside an d look ? Yes Som e say it 's ju st a par t of it We've got t o f u lf ill t h e book Won't you h elp t o sin g Th ese son gs of f r eedom ? 'Cau se all I ever h ave Redem pt ion son gs Redem pt ion son gs
Rober t N est a M ar ley How does one discuss social justice, music, the Movement, Freedom, Righteousness, Pan-Africanism, love, creativity and not include the name Robert Nesta Marley. Bob Marley is one of the great icons of music, known for songs such as ?One Love,? ?I Shot the Sheriff,? ?No Woman, No Cry? and one of my all-time favorites, ?Get Up Stand Up.? Bob Marley was born on February 6, 1945, in Jamaica and he later died on May 11, 1981. Marley is a pioneer of Reggae .Throughout his musical career as a singer, performer, and songwriter, he oftentimes fused elements of reggae, ska, and rock-steady to create the sound that we love and attribute to his musical genius. Bob Marley and the Wailers, a group formed with Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer, began as the Wailers. After 11 albums and signing to Island Music, they changed their name to Bob Marley and the Wailers. Bob Marley was a vocal figure in conversations regarding Pan-Africanism, legalization of marijuana, and democratic socialism.In 1976, due to his controversial (at the time) political views, someone attempted to assassinate Marley in his home. One of his band members and his wife were seriously injured and they survived. Bob Marley sustained injuries as well and 2 days later, he was on stage performing for ?Smile, Jamaica? that had a crowd of over 80,000 people and was organized by the Prime Minister of Jamaica. Bob Marley died in 1981 of Melanoma, a form of cancer, that had spread throughout his body to include his brain at the tender age of 36. His works live on through his children, grandchildren and fans. We will always remember the Gr eat Bob M ar ley.
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