WOULD YOU ACCEPT THE CHALLENGE TO START AN INDEPENDENT BLACK SCHOOL IN YOUR COMMUNITY?
Can your community implement this educational model for African children today in 2022? Well here is a sample of the blueprint.
Listen as Maliki Oluwambe, Raphael Jackson, Malika Iman, and Boniswa Ayan provide a comprehensive description of the founding principles of this “nation within a nation.” They were instrumental in the early years of this program.
The East was an educational and cultural center founded in 1969 in Brooklyn, New York by a group including students from the African American Student Association (ASA) and Jitu Weusi (Les Campbell), The East was a cultural, educational, and arts organization based on principles of self-determination, nation-building, and Black consciousness. Originally located at 10 Claver Place in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. The East served as a center for many cultural, educational, and community activities. It provided daycare for children and evening classes for adults and served as home for Black News, a bookstore, restaurant, catering service, food co-op, and a bi-weekly national Black nationalist news publication. The East functioned as home to an independent African-centered school named Uhuru Sasa Shule whose name translates to “Freedom Now” in Kiswahili.
The host of tonight’s program is Dr. William Rogers
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