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Remembering "Black Migrations" this Black History Month **Please watch the short videos included in this edition**

PROMOTIONAL PARTNERS James Weldon Johnson

Lift Every Voice And Sing Lift every voice and sing Till earth and Heaven ring Ring with the harmonies of Liberty; Let our rejoicing rise, High as The list'ning skies, let it resound loud as the Rolling sea

Sing a song full of faith that the Dark past has taught us, Sing a song full of The hope that the present has brought Us; Facing the rising sun of our new day Begun, Let us march on till victory is Won. Stony the road we trod, Bitter the Chast'ning rod, Felt in the day that hope Unborn had died; Yet with a steady Beat, Have not our weary feet, Come to the Place on which our fathers sighed?

We have Come over a way that with tears has been Watered, We have come, treading our path Through the blood of the slaughtered, Out from The gloomy past, till now we stand at Last Where the white gleam of our star is Cast.

God of our weary years, God of Our silent tears, Thou who has brought us thus Far on the way; Thou who has by thy Might, Led us into the light, Keep us Forever in the path, we pray Lest our feet Stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee, Least our hearts, drunk with the wine of The world, we forget thee, Shadowed beneath the Hand, May we forever stand, True to our God, True to our native land.

Songwriters: J. ROSAMOND JOHNSON, JAMES JOHNSON Lift Every Voice And Sing lyrics Š CARLIN AMERICA INC

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We need truth and reconciliation; without any more hesitation.

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By Reggie Smith I remember going to the March on Washington over 50 years ago when Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I have a dream" speech. I also attended the Million Man March in the same place with Minister Louis Farrakhan as the keynote speaker.

I’ve been inspired by Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Dr. John Henrik Clark, Rev. Al Sharpton, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, Barack Obama, and so many other black leaders of thought, including my parents.

These are just a few who have spoken truth to power. Unfortunately the systemic power of the status quo (SQ) does not seem to want to hear or act on the truth. It is not possible to reconcile a lie like the one racism is built on without first admitting to the atrocities that have been perpetuated to maintain and sustain that lie, is it?

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People of color have been suffering oppression and other indignities worldwide for all of my life and longer. It has never made sense that white people would claim superiority based on simply being white when no one has the choice of what race we are born. The evil that has been done in the name of so called civility is unbelievable. In America, Black people have had to fight with and for our lives in order to create a space where we might enjoy what is said in the Constitution to be "inalienable" human rights. Now, all immigrants of color are faced with oppression and rejection while either fleeing life threatening situations, or simply seeking freedom and self determination. Even the history of Black people worldwide is perverted or suppressed in order to justify racial injustice. It is easier to say that race relations in America have gotten better if you do not have to live with the trauma of being discriminated against. There is no justification for racism in the first place.

Are we satisfied with the state of race relations in America or the world? What will it take for there to be greater human equality?

W.E.B. Du Bois said, “The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.” I interpret that to mean more than an economic debt is incurred when so much energy is put into denying the truth about human inequality. There is a great spiritual price we are paying. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. There is no conscious choice we can make to choose our race, but there may be a karmic decision made by our eternal souls to come into this incarnation in a particular place and race in order to fulfill our individual and collective karmic debt. When we approach life from the perspective of an "engaged observer", we are able to more easily achieve some level of equanimity.

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In honor of Black History Month, check out these 15 inspiring quotes from civil rights icons including Martin Luther King Jr., Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois

said, “In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.� We are all, I assume, humans with a purpose for being. Without any evidence, I maintain the hope that the world will be transformed into a place more suitable for peace and self determination for people of color in my lifetime.

Great change is often preceded by great chaos. By that standard, we must be on the verge of a new earth. We are all blessed to be on the planet to experience this phase of human evolution. We certainly have a part to play in how the story progresses.

Our actual choices in the universal outcome of mankind is limited to the choices we make in our daily interactions with each other and the ecology. Coretta Scott King said, “Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.� We are here at this time in human history to be the lightbearers and drum majors for truth and love. Black History is world history.

There is no separation between the two.

Let us make the conscious choice to spread love. As the song says, "Love is the one thing there is just to little of."

"What the world needs now is love sweet love. No not just for some, but for everyone."

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RISE4WAR is one aspect of our love for you, and every time you open, read and share it, our love multiplies and intensifies. Thank you!

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1. “Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.â€? —Dr. Mae Jemison, first African-American female astronaut 2. “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality‌. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.â€? —Martin Luther King, Jr. 3. “The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.â€? —W.E.B. Du Bois 4. “In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.â€? —Thurgood Marshall, first African American U.S. Supreme Court member 5. “Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.â€? —Coretta Scott King 100 Inspiring Quotes About Moms for 100 Years of Mother’s Day 6. “Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.â€? —Susan L. Taylor, journalist 7. “Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.â€? —Carol Moseley-Braun, politician and lawyer 8. “One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the

shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.”

—Franklin Thomas, activist, philanthropist, and former president of the Ford Foundation

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9. “My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.”

—Desmond Tutu 10. “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.”

—Langston Hughes 11. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

—Frederick Douglass 12. “The time is always right to do what is right.”

—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 13. “Have a vision. Be demanding.”

—Colin Powell 14. “Freedom is never given; it is won.”

—A. Philip Randolph, civil rights activist 15. “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”

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