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The Rev. Charles Elliott of King Solomon Baptist Church, in partnership with area pastors, community leaders, Louisville Metro officials and concerned citizens, restarted a program whose funding waned in the early 2000s.The Jesus and a Job campaign started in the late 1990s to provide work for those struggling with substance abuse or felony records. The current project will be rehabbing a boarded-up home on Dumesnil Street. Photos by urban photojournalist Bud Dorsey 2015.
Read more: Jesus And A Job February 7 - Photos by Bud Dorsey
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An incredible read. Be conscious of this: just because something *feels* a particular kind of way does not mean that it is. Many Black folk have absorbed so much poison about the perception of our collective humanity, we have come to believe the "truthiness" (which isn't TRUTH) about Black people as well.
What am I saying? When we hear a news story about a heinous crime that a young Black male criminal, or a crew of young Black male criminals have committed, our brains cross-reference violence, chaos and neighborhoods sliding down the path to doom. I am guilty of this myself at times.
From the article that you're about to read: "America is safer than it was 20 years ago. Really. Still, white Americans (and many black Americans, for that matter) believe there's more violent crime than there actually is, and that blacks are largely responsible for it."
When we talk police reform, what we are actually doing is the equivalent of moving deck chairs around on the Titanic. Our discussions get into incidental matters of processes and tactics but yet never confront the issue of threat assessment - and Black people are always, always, considered that greater threat. Until racial prejudice is seriously confronted, most everything that we talk and complain about in community forums and even the private meetings - "Black Lives Matter" will continue to remain a slogan merely for protesters. Our law enforcement infrastructure has shown little willingness to confront this on an institutional level.
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- by Michael R. Hicks
Webmaster, narrowthegap.org
""100 Church Challenge". What If we got 100 Black Churches to donate $1,000 toward opening a new business? That would be $100,000 of start up money. We need Unity not a Walmart in West Louisville. Time to Do For Self and Stop begging others." - Minister Jerald Muhammad, Student Minister, NOI Louisville Mosque
Let's start asking a different set of questions, although it's related to 18th and Broadway. This will be a future discussion on the Brothers Helping Brothers Radio Show.
Read more: One Mo'pinion: Thinking about and putting some meat on what empowerment means
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-Ed Dunn, dreamandhustle.com
Many ex-offenders believe they are marginalized and shut out from real opportunities and this is 100% not true. In fact, ex-convicts do not face the same kind of felony disenfranchisement they used to a result of paradigm shifts to urban economics and information services. In some ways, ex-offenders have a level playing field with college-degreed cornballs and in most cases an advantage to seize opportunities in urban renewal efforts and make big plays. In this article, we are talking to the brothas and sistas who feel they are marginalized and disenfranchised and help show them the opportunities and strategies they can pursue to do for self, their people but most important, make right back to the hood and people they did wrong.
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