With the news of a coming child and the daily realization that Fatherhood is upon me, I moment by moment feel both an unimaginable excitement about Fatherhood and the child that has yet to come and also a subtle yet real fear or awe about the emmense magnitude of what is upon me in the More...

In elementary school I was making almost straight A’s and told my mother that I wanted to go to MIT and be a scientist. Puberty began to set in between 11-13 and all that went out the window. 

In came the insecurity, deep insecurity about myself, my identity, and my concept about my worthiness of More...

It was said by the ancient Jewish mystics, that special and sacred souls are seeded in each generation to help guide that generation to liberation spiritually and physically.

That being said, history has revealed to us that these special leader type souls were here in previous generations. In previous generations we had the likes More...

700 Billion Dollars, thats the amount that the African American community which makes up only 13% of the U.S. spends as consumers on a yearly basis. The amount that African Americans spend as consumers is actually larger than the budgets of some small countries. And somebody please tell me what we have to show for More...

I think about my brothers and our journey to build a better life, a life of more quality for the world, those we love and hopefully even ourselves. 

I think about how on this journey, we(like a pregnant mother) get stretch marks Too! We get stretched by time, sometimes opening our lives up to a More...

What is Village Economics?

Its when we come together as a Family under the spirit of sacrifice and pool all our resources. Its when people who have spiritual hustles(that create unity above selfishness), money hustles, mental hustles, emotional hustles, agricultural and business hustles, come under the banner of pooling their skills, talents, mentalities, and above More...

If Jesus were here today, I think He’d be disgusted at all the things we do to worship him with as far as buildings, trinkets, crosses, bibles, choirs, fund raisers, and social events all the while never paying attention to what he would have desired for us as spiritual beings made in the image of More...

Yo,

1st of all, 1stBorn is a very serious brother! But please don’t judge me by how I may write, what I may write, or how I may come off at times. My number 2 rule(behind: To thine own self be True!) is to never take myself too seriously. Taking yourself too seriously, blocks More...

In the Black Community, the primary source of problems with our relationships between one another is the Father Famine. There is a devastating shortage of proper relationships with fathers in our community. Statistics, say that some %60 or more of black children today are growing up in a single parent household headed by mothers. The More...

This is toooo far son!!! And they aiming this at kids. Son, this is funny but its out of control!!

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