by Jerome Paige | Feb 2, 2021 | Conversations Across Generations, Featured, Guest Contributor, The 1960s Project, Voices of the 1960s
LOUIS HICKS Take a look at me, Jourdan! I’m enjoying a financially secure and personally rewarding retirement, 51 years after graduating from high school in 1969 in racially segregated Austin, Texas. I’m 69, and in this letter, I’m sharing what I’ve gleaned from...
by Jerome Paige | Jan 5, 2021 | Featured, Guest Contributor, The 1960s Project
ROBERT E. NEILSON, PH.D. Class of 1966 What do you do? Someone asked me. “I think about the future,” I replied. While in high school, I thought about the implications of John F. Kennedy’s assassination and those of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F....
by Jerome Paige | Jan 2, 2021 | Kwanzaa 2020, WOJM-SM
Day One Uomjo (Unity) Day Two Kujichagulia (Self-Determination) Day Three Ujima (Collective Work & Responsibility) Day Four Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics)Day Five Nia (Purpose)Day 6 Kuumba CreativityDay 7 Imani (Faith)
by Jerome Paige | Jan 1, 2021 | Kwanzaa 2020, WOJM-SM
“THE SEVENTH PRINCIPLE, IMANI (FAITH), teaches us to believe in the good and our capacity to achieve it, share it, and leave it as a worthy legacy for those who come afterward. Let us have faith, then, in the sacred teachings of our ancestors which say to us...
by Jerome Paige | Dec 31, 2020 | Kwanzaa 2020, WOJM-SM
“The Sixth Principle, Kuumba (Creativity), uplifts and promotes the practice of the ancient African ethical principle of serudj ta, the moral obligation to repair, renew and remake the world, making it more beneficial and beautiful than we inherited it. And it...
by Jerome Paige | Dec 30, 2020 | Kwanzaa 2020, WOJM-SM
“The Fifth Principle, Nia (Purpose), teaches us the collective vocation of constantly building and developing the capacity of our people to be ourselves and free ourselves to pursue an expansive good and come into the fullness of ourselves. And it reaffirms the...
by Jerome Paige | Dec 29, 2020 | Kwanzaa 2020, WOJM-SM
“The Fourth Principle, Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics), lifts up and promotes the values of shared work and shared wealth; the right of all people to a decent and dignity-affirming life, and thus the right of all people to a just and equitable share of the common...
by Jerome Paige | Dec 28, 2020 | Kwanzaa 2020, WOJM-SM
“The Third Principle, Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility) speaks to the ethical obligation and transformative practice of building together the good world we all want and deserve to live in and leave as a rightful legacy for future generations. It teaches...
by Jerome Paige | Dec 26, 2020 | Kwanzaa 2020, WOJM-SM
“The Second Principle, Kujichagulia (Self-Determination), teaches us we must think and act for ourselves and define ourselves by the good we choose and do in the world. It speaks to our right and responsibility to be ourselves and free ourselves and make our own...