Black Liberation Museum of Revolutionary Consciousness & Grassroots Resistance Training
The Black Liberation Museum of Revolutionary Consciousness & Grassroots Resistance will help to fill a demonstrated need in the world for more Afrikan-Centered, Black Liberation, Afrikan Sacred Science organizing processes to cultivate revolutionary historical consciousness among Black/Afrikan/Indigenous peoples, and general population as a method of healing (her)historical trauma – both for children and adults.
Rooted in grassroots pedagogy built from Non-Traditional Approaches, this museum will develop:
interactive exhibits,
workshops,
lectures,
publications,
outreach programs,
conference and theater facilities;
healing circles,
youth summits,
documentary screenings,
Open Mic concerts and much more…
The goal of the museum is to help people from all walks of life and with all levels of knowledge to better understand and evaluate revolutionary consciousness, Black Liberation, and grassroots resistance as a method of healing (her)historical trauma and ongoing violence as a praxis of institutional knowledge building.
"Nation Building is the consciousness and focused application of our peoples' collective resources and knowledge to the task of liberating and developing the psychic and physical space that we identify as ours. It involves the development of behaviors,values, languages, institutions and physical structures that elucidate our history and culture. Concretize, and protect the present and ensure the future identity and independence of the nation" – Mama Dr. Marimba Ani
“But we (Black/Oppressed People) were to find out quickly that courage and dedication were not enough. To win any struggle for liberation, you have to have the way as well as the will, an overall ideology and strategy that stems from scientific analysis of history and present conditions”
- Assata Shakur
The Non Traditional Approach to Criminal and Social Justice - Over 60 Years of Community Specific Knowledge, Practice and Organizing for Black Liberation Museum Exhibit
This exhibit highlights one of the many formations of Black Liberation Praxis developed by The Black Power Movement while captured as Prisoners of WAR, Political Prisoners and Prisoners of Political Consciousness (Socially Consciousness Prisoners) in the 1960s/2000s. One formation developed from this context is the 1960s/1970s Prison Rights Movement developed in jails and prisons across the country during the 1960s and formalized in the 1970s. In New York State, in particular, The Non Traditional Approach to Criminal and Social Justice was developed. These exhibits honor the community specific approach that was developed within the prison system and re-emrgers back into the community in early 1990s that is the foundation of our current formerly incarcerated and currently incarcerated movement to reform and abolish the prison system.
This training will cover three large areas of praxis:
Historical Perspective – To provide contextual and historical account that traces the growth of people of color into the prison system
The Direct Relationship – To establish the existence of a Direct Relationship between the criminal justice system and specific Black and Latino communities in New York City (NYC)
Three Program Components – To outline the process necessary to transform individuals from social ‘liabilities’ to community ‘assets’
Upon completion of this praxis, participants will be able to:
cultivate waves of cadres in local communities as local forces of empowered mothers, fathers, elders, youth and community blocks with tools, rituals, and strategies rooted in Afrikan values as a praxis of sustaining new Afrikan Consciousness for Ujima: Collective Work and Responsibility to fight against & heal from The WAR, particularly, communities impacted by seven phenomena.
Explain the contextual and historical growth of people of color into the prison system
Understand the Direct Relationship the criminal justice system have with specific Black and Latino communities in NYC
Identify the process needed to transform individuals from liabilities to assets.
““It is time that state prisoners participate in solving the critical problems affect our own communities – The Green Haven Think Tank
“But we (Black/Oppressed People) were to find out quickly that courage and dedication were not enough. To win any struggle for liberation, you have to have the way as well as the will, an overall ideology and strategy that stems from scientific analysis of history and present conditions”
- Assata Shakur
The Healing (Her)Historical Trauma: Legacy Tour Organizing Project
The Healing (Her)Historical Trauma: Legacy Tour Organizing Project stands on the shoulders of master teacher Cheikh Anta Diop groundbreaking scholarship, Afrikan Origins of Civilization (1956), which debunked Egyptologists' lies of Ancient Egypt to reclaim Kemet in the rightful Afrikan (her)history & is grounded in over 60 years of NYC/local legacy - including personal, social, relational, experiences, and knowledge cultivated in NYS prisons, NYC communities of color under siege by The WAR (Seven (7) Neighborhoods), and within grassroots social movements. The Legacy Tour organizing project incorporates empirical scholarship at multi level (individual, community, and national/transnational; intergenerational) that brings together local NYC and grassroots communities (at different levels - personal family, local community, youth, elders, ancestors, queer, people currently incarcerated; formerly incarcerated) focused on trauma and resistance, focused on the past and radical possibilities not yet to collectively engage in political education sessions (study and reflection), healing-centered youth organizing and co-creating sacred healing circles at (her)historical memorials/sites across the country and international worlds where Black/Afikan leaders, elders, ancestors, and movement fought back, and healed from The WAR/Afrikan Maafa. This is a process to cultivate the restoration of revolutionary historical consciousness for Black/Afrikan youth/peoples as a method of healing historical trauma.
Upon completion of this praxis, participants will be able to:
The Legacy Tour is a practice of facing our problems of (her)historical violence straight on, by applying Non-Traditional Approaches of healing. Each of Legacy Tours included ten (10) Non -Traditional Approaches/Community Specific components towards healing (her)historical trauma:
1) Engage local NYC Afrikan and grassroots community
2) Studying Afrikan/Grassroots Literature Review - to choose what geography historical site to visit and study;
3) Gathering of Afrikan/Grassroots Political Education Material;
4) Community Outreach Process to Afrikan/Grassroots Peoples and Communities near Memorial Sites;
5) Political Education and Study Process with Grassroots Communities;
6) Travel and Journeying Collectively to Memorial Site with Grassroots Communities:
7) Experience, Archive and Document Memorial Site by Grassroots Communities;
8) Healing Circle Reflection Process;
9) Methods of Data Collection and Analysis;
10) Start Process Over (Greene, 2020).
““It is time that state prisoners participate in solving the critical problems affect our own communities – The Green Haven Think Tank
“But we (Black/Oppressed People) were to find out quickly that courage and dedication were not enough. To win any struggle for liberation, you have to have the way as well as the will, an overall ideology and strategy that stems from scientific analysis of history and present conditions”
- Assata Shakur
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