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6th Edition 2020 THE TRANSFORMATIONAL AGENDA The entire truth will set you free THE TRANSFORMATIONAL AGENDA MAGAZINEFOUR HUNDRED YEARS AFTER ENSLAVED AFRICANS WERE FIRST BROUGHT TO VIRGINIA, MOST AMERICANS STILL DON’T KNOW THE FULL STORY OF SLAVERY. —The New York Times, 1619 Project Let us use history to inspire us to push a country forwards, to help us believe that all things are possible and to demand a country lives up to its stated ideals. —Lonnie G. Bunch III 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian WE’VE GOT TO TELL THE UNVARNISHED TRUTH —John Hope Franklin, Black historian read magazine/use directory www.black-pages.com1 Source: Leonard Pitts The Miami Herald The headline, sub headline, and last two sentences of his commentary. As published in the St. Louis Post Dispatch August 20, 2019. Slavery shaped today and is shaping tomorrow. We cannot fix it until we face that. And if you’re one of those who is vexed by that reminder. The history of slavery is too much for some. Too bad. Well frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.CONTENTS 400 YEARS IN SEVEN MOVEMENTS The Entire Truth About Race in America Inventing Racial Inferiority: How American Slavery Was Different The Economics of Enslavement After Slavery: Post-Emancipation Moved Back Again Toward Slavery A National Legacy: Our Collective Memory of Slavery, War, and Race No Justice—Just The Klan Why So Much Work Remains 400 YEARS OF TRIMUPH 20 ...you exist today because... ...culture is everything... …the power of culture… …living the culture of the enslaved… …we remain disempowered by our past… …the power of spirit is tragically being ignored… …healing is exactly what is needed… …the beauty of the situation... ...so the beat goes on… ...the secret of life... Saint Louis Black Pages Inc. 7750 Maryland Avenue, #11553 St. Louis, MO 63105 Ph: 314-531-7300 Fax: 314-531-7302 Email: info@black-pages.com www.black-pages.com PUBLISHERS PAGE 4 TABLE OF 8 We Can-Because They Did Thanks For Making It Happen The Transformational Agenda Magazine2 The Transformational Agenda34 90,000 Days Imagine the Rage Beating Our Children Love Us Some Greens This Year Alone 5,000 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVE MENTAL LEGACIES OF SLAVERY 52JASA (Mama Moon) McCALEB THE EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE 46 National Memorial to Peace & Justice Bryan Stevenson Founder & Executive Director TRAUMA 42 Gregory Phillips, Australian Trauma Researcher, -Defines 3 Types of Trauma -Speaks To Cultural Healing Judy Atkinson, Australian Professor, Speaks To The Negative Cultural Impact Of Unresolved Cultural Intergenerational Trauma Reconciliation Professor Helen Milroy, an Indigenous Australian Psychiatrist Specializing in Child Psychiatry, Describes How Trauma Flows www.TransformationalHealingNow.com www.black-pages.com Register for The Retreat : You can visit our official WEBSITE: 56 TRANSFORMATIONAL HEALING 58WISDOM FOR REMEMBRANCE DOWNLOAD THE BLACK PAGES APP read magazine/use directory www.black-pages.com3 The Transformational Agenda Magazine4 400 years ago, we arrived as kidnap victims, who soon would know unconceivable (legal) brutality for 247 years; followed by 100 years of (again legal) slavery by ‘another’ name called Jim Crow. Fifty years ago, we wrestled and won our dignity and our legal rights, during the Civil Rights Era. Today, at this very moment in time, our healing and our freedom is within our grasp. But we don’t know that we have a need for healing, because before now we couldn’t even verbalize our oppression, much less declare our harm— yet, today we can. WE CAN BECAUSE THEY DID by Howard D Denson & Vickie M Denson Publisher & Chief Executive Officer St. Louis Black Pages, Inc. read magazine/use directory www.black-pages.com5 This "26th Edition of The Transforma- tional Agenda Magazine - 2020" is de- voted to truth telling—telling the entire truth of our experience in America, so that we can recognize and define the harm, to then come together to create a healing community of love—to facili- tate our healing and thus setting our- selves free. Our ancestors held on during the days when hope unborn had died and death would have been a sweet release so that we might know today. Their choice of life affirmed their belief that one day a generation of their descendants would know the relative freedom that we know today. Because they chose to survive, we know today. We finally have the opportunity to heal our community—and we must, for not only do we owe this to the sacrifice of the ancestors—we also owe it to our children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren. We can—because they did. Enjoy. Love. Help. Support. Always. It is true that a good deal of white pri- vilege, systemic racism, and discrimi- nation still exists in America, which will greatly diminish during the next 50 years, as hard-core racists die and their more open-minded children become adults. This is certain. It is also true that only the African Ame- rican community can heal the African American community, and healing is exactly what we need. It is not certain that we will heal (among other reasons) because we don’t recognize the need for healing. We have been focused al- most exclusively on wrestling freedom from the oppressive system, yet we don’t realize the trauma we have expe- rienced nor the massive cultural injury which has occurred. We are being con- strained by what we don’t even know that we don’t know exists—uncons- cious cultural intergenerational trauma manifesting as unconscious negative mental legacies of slavery. This edition addresses this situation in depth. The African American community is truly suffering because we have been disempowered for so long that now we don’t know how to empower ourselves. In many cases we can’t even conceptualize what an empowered life is like. And while the reality of racism and discrimination is still very real, we are now in an age when we can—and we must—make up our minds that as a community we will do all that we can do and all that we know to do to empower ourselves for success. Waiting for a fair, equitable, and humane society is both insanity and an absolute guarantee of additional pain. Doing— with the fierce urgency of now—all that we can to empower our own situation, by empowering ourselves, is what we must be and do.It’s been a while—since we last published. You see, Howard required 13 hours of surgery to implant an artificial spine, and there were complications, and months in a rehab facility, and the unexpected need to learn to walk again, and to give up the painkillers, and to find the right nerve medications. It took a while, actually a long while, but he’s back, as good as ever and raring to go. Vickie is thrilled to have gotten to press and also to be relieved of nursing duties. Truly committed love really is ‘for better and for worst’. Thank you for your patience and your understanding, for your love sustained us. The last print and electronic editions continued to work, of course. And here’s a brand-new edition for 2020. Howard & Vickie are focused and committed to ensuring that the 2021 edition will be the biggest and best ever. Because the need is greater than ever. We need to find one another so we can patronize one another, help folk new to town to get acclimated, to share empowering information, and to allow others who want to advance the African American community to be able to do so with their dollars. This edition celebrates our 400 Years of Triumph. Our first ancestors to be enslaved in America arrived in Virginia in 1619. New York Times Magazine devoted its entire August 18th, 2019 edition to truth telling regarding slavery and how it has been the defining, pivotal, and essential contributor to the wealth of America; and our continual insistence that this nation live up to its founding vision as expressed in the constitution. In spite of it all, our ancestors chose life so that we could know today. The entire truth really will set us free, so Black Pages is proud to present America’s racial history with ‘intellectual honesty’. It is the requirement of our healing and the foundation for racial reconciliation in America. The universe is now aligned for our healing transformation. Have you heard? “Black folk must project our power—our spending power.” Only African Americans can heal the African American community—and healing is exactly what we need. Love. Help. Support. Always. Use your directory. Read your magazine. Download the app. Spend Consciously. Love. Help. Support. Always. FOR MAKING IT HAPPEN! The Transformational Agenda Magazine6ABOUT THE COVER: Kehinde Wiley is the artist who created the official presidential portrait of President Barack Obama; and who recently had a showing at the Saint Lewis Art Museum of paintings of Ferguson demonstrators. Rumors of War is a bronze monumental equestrian statue of an African American young man created in response to the statue of Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart in Richmond, Virginia. In September 2019 Wiley unveiled the work in Times Square in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The work is Wiley's largest at 27 feet high and 16 feet wide. December 1, 2019 it will be moved to its' permanent home at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond. It will be at the head of Arthur Ashe Avenue where it will be situated in close proximity to a volley of Confederate statues and monuments. read magazine/use directory www.black-pages.com7 SYLVIA LOCKETT Jason WestJohn Ferguson Sharon Bodett Alex V Las Casas HOWARD D. DENSON Editor & Publisher VICKIE M. DENSON President & CEO GRAPHICS: Next Level Design, Inc.Next >