A Black History Month 2019 Evening with Justice Robert L. Wilkins, Author, “LONG ROAD TO HARD TRUTH” Wednesday, February 13th, in Chicago’s Hyde Park Community

WHO:  Reformation Church Chicago’s Carter G. Woodson Institute for Black Church Ministries & Studies, in conjunction with, Association for the Study of African American Life and History’s (ASALH’s) Black Migrations Theme  

PRESENTS  

WHAT:  Justice Robert L. Wilkins, Author, “LONG ROAD TO HARD TRUTH (The 100 Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American History and Culture);”

WHEN:  Wednesday, February 13th at 6 PM;

WHERE:  McCormick Theological Seminary’s Common Room, C/o African American Ministries & Black Church Studies Center, 5460 S. University Avenue, Hyde Park, Chicago IL, 60615

HOW:  Introduced by: Justice Nathaniel R. Howse, Illinois Appeals Court, First District-Third Division, with Special Invited Guests: Mr. Samuel Scott, Founder of Black Chicago Tomorrow (A Framework for Neighborhood Revitalization); Dr. Lionel Kimble, Professor of History, CSU & ASALH Vice-President for Programs;  & Rev. Dr. Stacy Edwards-Dunn, McCormic’s African American Ministries and Black Church Studies Center; 

WHY:  For the last two decades Robert L. Wilkins has been intensely a part of the story of the creation of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. “LONG ROAD to HARD TRUTH,” part history and part memoir, chronicles the near century mission for building a museum that would gather, preserve, celebrate, and advance the facts and artifacts of the African American agency.

For ourselves and Black History, then, please join Justice Robert L. Wilkins’ dynamically informative and inspiring presentation.

Contacts:  Rev. Joel Washington (Khunanpu Sangoma), Pastor of Reformation Church Chicago/ELCA-ADLA (“Young Barack Obama’s organizing sanctuary & Elim Swedish Lutheran Conservator”), via text, text, text @ 773-499-3323.  Deaconess Marsha Washington, 773-996-1066.

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Reformation Church Chicago’s Emerging CARTER G. WOODSON MEMORIAL INSTITUTE for Black Church Ministries and Studies Joins ASALH’s National Program Commemorating 400 YEARS of PERSEVERANCE/1619-2019/on Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Weekend -Saturday, January 19, 2019 at Mather’s Chatham (“More then a Cafe”) Breakfast Meeting, 9 AM-11 AM

MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT AND INVITATION 

1.  WHO: Reformation Church Chicago’s African American Cultural Center Ministerium’s  emerging CARTER G. WOODSON MEMORIAL INSTITUTE for Black Church Ministries and Studies.  In Collaboration with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History’s (ASALH’s) -National Program aimed at Commemorating 400 YEARS of PERSEVERANCE/1619-2019 (ASALH/400YOP).  ASALH/400YOP also serves as  a National ASALH Program Honoring the Ancestors and 400 Years of African American Resilience;

2.  WHAT: A BREAKFAST COMMEMORATIVE & ORGANIZING/BUSINESS MEETING FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY, CULTURE, HOLIDAYS AND EVENTS;

3.  WHEN: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Weekend, Saturday, January 19, 2019, 9 AM-11 AM;

4.  WHERE: Mather’s Chatham (“More then a Cafe”), 33 E. 83rd Street, Chicago IL 60619, (Just East of the Dan Ryan Expressway);

5.  HOW:  Invited Guest Speaker, Dr. Lionel Kimble, incoming ASALH Vice-President for Programming, Historian, and Chicago State U Department of History Professor as well as outgoing ASALH Chicago Branch Chair.  Honored guests: Leading ASALH Chicago Branch Members;

6.  WHY: 

A) Celebrating Dr. King’s 90th birthday; 

B) Commemorating the African American Ancestors and 400 years of Black American perseverance/1619-2019;

C)  Making a contribution to telling our own 400 year story/our own 400 year narrative;

D) Organizing Reformation’s African American Cultural Center’s emerging CARTER G. WOODSON MEMORIAL INSTITUTE for Black Church Ministries and Studies;

E) Uplifting Dr. Woodson’s path-breaking volume “The History of the (Black) Church, Associated Publishers, 1921; as well as

F) Uplifting Dr. Woodson’s stellar contribution to African American Historiography -itself formally launched at the Wabash YMCA on Chicago’s South Side, 1915.

G)  Most importantly, Dr. Woodson should be lifted up every Black History Month, especially by Black Church faith communities, be they of Chicago, nationally, or internationally. 

H)  Why?  Dr. Woodson holds the distinction of authoring one of the early base-line studies of the African American Church, to wit: “Woodson, Carter. The History of the Negro Church (1921), comprehensive history by a leading black scholar (along with DuBois’s The Negro Church, Atlanta University Studies, 1903).”  (Wikipedia)

I)  We define Institute as an evening, weekend, as well as a weekday breakfast, lunch, and dinner educational facility serving Black Church professionals (concerned clergy and laity) already active and engaged day-to-day in their respective mission fields.

Respectfully submitted: Rev. Joel Washington (Khunanpu Sangoma), Pastor of Reformation African Descent Lutheran Mission Church Chicago/ELCA-ADLA (“Young Barack Obama’s organizing sanctuary & Elim Swedish Lutheran Conservator”) -Englewood Square Chicago’s Black History Chaplain -not for seniors only.

I) Pastor Washington (Sangoma) is the Convener of the emerging CARTER G. WOODSON MEMORIAL INSTITUTE FOR BLACK CHURCH MINISTRIES AND STUDIES (CGWMI).  CGWMI is an initiative of the African American Cultural Center Ministerium of Reformation Black Lutheran Mission Church Chicago/ELCA-ADLA.

II) Pastor Washington (Sangoma) is also a member of the 2018 formed KAWAIDA WORKGROUP (KW).  KW serves as a national editorial body of activist/scholars and Kawaida advocates self-tasked to write, edit, publish, and promote an anthology tribute (Festshrift) uplifting the activist/scholar life and work of Dr. Maulana Karenga, Creator of Kwanzaa, the Nguzo Saba, and Professor and Chair of Africana Studies, Cal State U-Long Beach.

III)  “BLACK METROPOLIS” is an allusion to the 1945 sociological study of U of Chicago Black scholars, St. Clair Drake and Horace Cayton, under the same name and subtitled “A Study of (Black) Life in a Northern City.”  “BLACK METROPOLIS,” then, has become synonymous with Black Chicago.

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Black Metropolis Word Study of Calendar

BLACK METROPOLIS CALENDAR’s WORD STUDY

1) “The purpose of the calendar is to reckon past and future time, to show how many days until a certain event takes place-the harvest or a religious festival-or how long since something important happened.”

2) Archaic: “guide, example.”

-Info-please: History of the Calendar-

  1. Calendar:

    “A) a printed table showing all the days, weeks, and months of the year.

“B) in the US: a book with a separate space or page for each day, in which you write down your future arrangements, meetings, etc.

“C) the system used to measure and arrange days, weeks, months and special events of the year according to a belief system or tradition: The Christian/Jewish/Chinese/African-American/ calendar.” (Our insert)

“D) a list of events and dates within a particular year that are important for an organization or for people involved in a particular activity.

-Cambridge Dictionaries Online-


4) “Civil calendar: In any country, the civil calendar is possibly one of several calendars, used within that country for civil, official, or administrative purposes.”


5) “Civil year:

A) a period of 365 or 366 days, in the Gregorian calendar, divided into 12 calendar months, now reckoned as beginning Jan. 1 and ending Dec. 31 (calendar year or civil year).

B) a space of 12 calendar months calculated from any point.”

6) “The Gregorian calendar, also called the Western calendar and the Christian calendar, is internationally the most widely used civil calendar. It is named for Pope Gregory XIII, who introduced it in 1582.”

-Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia-


Respectfully submitted: Pastor Joel Washington (Khunanpu Sangoma), l Pastor of Reformation Church Chicago (“Young Barack Obama’s organizing sanctuary & Elim Swedish Lutheran Conservator”) & Kuumba-Chicago Blogger

 

On BLACK METROPOLIS CALENDAR -Midwest Journal Preserving and Promoting African American History, Culture, Holidays and Events

1)  An important takeaway from Reformation Church Chicago’s African American Cultural Center Ministerium’s COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARD DECEMBER BREAKFAST MEETING at Mather’s Chatham (“More than a Cafe”), was the decision to form a collaborative between Reformation’s Black Cultural Center Ministry on the one hand and on the other the Chicago Chapter of the 103 years old Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) -founded September 9, 1915 at Chicago’s Wabash YMCA on the South Side- by Dr. Carter G. Woodson, Alexander L. Jackson, James E. Stamps, William D. Hargrove and George Cleveland Hall.

2)  The DECEMBER BREAKFAST MEETING GROUP, gathering to mark the 143rd birthday of Dr. Woodson, immediately tasked itself with working together to present, February 13, 2019 Black History Month,  Federal Appeals Court Justice, DC Circuit, Robert L. Wilkins, author of “LONG ROAD TO Hard TRUTH: The 100 Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American History and Culture” at Chicago State University’s/CSU/ Gwendolyn Brooks Library (2-13-19 afternoon) and at McCormick Seminary, Hyde Park (2-13-19 evening).

3)  The above said, the DECEMBER BREAKFAST MEETING GROUP, representing AACCM and Chicago ASALH, is also looking to expand its core to include forces and structures inside and outside CSU’s campus on the Far South Side, McCormick’s campus-Hyde Park, Metro Chicago City-Wide and the Midwest Regionally.

4)  Note:  Dr. Lionel Kimble, Professor of History at CSU and Chair of Chicago ASALH ,was the DECEMBER BREAKFAST MEETING’S  Guest of Honor and Speaker. 

5)  We will seek to accomplish our objective above by jointly occasionally publishing –online and in the community- the emerging BLACK METROPOLIS CALENDAR (Midwest Journal Preserving and Promoting African American History, Culture, Holidays and Events).

6)  This blog’s entry, and this blog spot as a whole, is an attempt to inform the reader of  BMC’S emergence as well as its identity, purpose, and direction.

7)  “BLACK METROPOLIS” is an allusion to the 1945 sociological study of U of Chicago scholars, St. Clair Drake and Horace Cayton, under the same name and subtitled “A Study of (Black) Life in a Northern City.”  “BLACK METROPOLIS,” then, has become synonymous with Black Chicago.

Respectfully submitted:  Rev. Joel Washington (Khunanpu Sangoma), Pastor of Reformation African Descent Lutheran Mission Church Chicago/ELCA-ADLA (“Young Barack Obama’s organizing sanctuary & Elim Swedish Lutheran Conservator”)

In this giving season, please join one or more membership categories (Individual, Family, Institutional) of Reformation’s AACCM doable @:

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 Going forward, all $500 memberships will result in dual affiliations, $250 a piece, with both our AACCM & Chicago ASALH.

When you join us, you support the best within your own service.       

Initially Defining the Black Metropolis Historical, Holiday, and Cultural Calendar

Outlining the Black Metropolis African American Historical, Holiday, and Cultural Calendar

(What it Looks Like)

1. As Keith Mayes, Professor of Africana Studies at University of Minnesota, Twin Cites, indicates, the mother vain of the year-round African American Holiday Tradition is the dateline alley from January 1 through November. That is to say a swath of major commemoration dates as follows:

A) The Seventh Day of Kwanzaa-January 1 (Day of Meditation & Reflection);

B) The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Holiday Weekend-following January 15;

C) Black History Month I (General Focus)-February; (The Kawaida African-Centered Philosophy suggestion)

D) Black History Month II (Women Focus)-March; (Again a Kawaida suggestion) and

E) The April 4 Martyrdom of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

F. The Original Texas/Oklahoma-Based Juneteenth National Celebrations

G. Anniversary of Fredrick Douglas’ July 4th interpretation

H. Marcus Garvey’s birthday

I. The anniversary of the 1963 March On Washington for Jobs and Freedom

J. The Million Man March/Day of Absence  & Black (Sankofa) Octoberfest

K. Mahalia Jackson’s birthday

L. Black Solidarity Day

2. This said, BMC’s project annually begins by programatically raising up the above major commemorations and other significant dates in between such as Black Love Day, Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, Langston Hughes’, and Bob Marley’s birthday-all in February as well- plus:

3. The Celebration of Haitian Independence, January 1 (or early during that Month).


Respectfully submitted: Rev. Joel Washington (Khunanpu Sangoma), Pastor of Reformation Church-Chicago (“Young Barack Obama’s organizing sanctuary & Elim Swedish Lutheran Conservator”), BMV Chicago Blogger.

Why Black Metropolis Calendar?

BLACK METROPOLIS CALENDAR OBJECTIVES

1. BMC is a counter cultural date book serving the Africana community in the U.S. from its home base on the Mid South Side of Chicago.

2. As such we are rooted in the African American alternative holiday tradition that is today more than two centuries old.

3. BMC serves as an ongoing critique and corrective of the common Euro-American civil calendar itself rooted in the Western Church Gregorian calendar tradition.

4. Due to its historically flawed systemic and institutionalized White supremacy and racism, the Western Church-Based/Gregorian calendar consistently functions to marginalize the history and culture of African Americans, and other peoples of color, inside and outside the U.S.

5. BMC’s calendar is an expression of African American “Self-Determination, Self-Respect and Self-Defense.”  (Dr. Maulana Karenga, Cal State ULB)

6)  The common denominator of BMC’s bench marks is the historic African American people’s stride toward freedom on ever higher levels of development.

7. BMC’s general objectives, suggested to us and adopted from University of Minnesota Professor Keith A. Mayes, author of KWANZAA (Black Power and the Making of the African American Holiday Tradition), are as follows:

A) “to (help) provide visibility and a public voice to African Americans (in the Metro Chicago area especially but not exclusively);”

B) “to (help) “perennialize” the African American struggle for racial and social justice-locally, regionally, nationally and globally;

C) “to (help) annually affirm (Black) History (and culture);” and

D) To (help) “annually assess” where African Americans are as a people in U. S. Society in general, the City of Chicago and the State of Illinois particularly.

Respectfully submitted: Rev. Joel Washington (Khunanpu Sangoma), Pastor of Reformation African Descent Lutheran Mission Church Chicago/ELCA-ADLA (“Young Barack Obama’s organizing sanctuary & Elim Swedish Lutheran Conservator”)

INTRODUCING BLACK METROPOLIS VOICE (African American Cultural Calendar of Chicago’s Mid South Side)

1. BLACK METROPOLIS VOICE (BMV) is a project sparked by the SOCIAL ENTRPRENEURSHIP FOR SUSTAINABILITY WORKSHOP created and led by Community Development Consultant, Pierre Clark, and hosted by the COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ACCELERATOR, Ryan K. Priester, Director, on behalf  of the University of Chicago Office of Civic Engagement.

2. More, BMV is an initiative of Mr. Clark, Managing Partner of NuFutures Strategic Partners and Rev. Joel Washington (Khunanpu Sangoma), Pastor of Reformation African American Lutheran Mission Church Chicago/ELCA, and a freelance writer whose primary genre/formats are Institutional/Non-Profit Development, African American Faith-Based Community Journalism, and the Blog Platform.

3.  BMV is organized along the traditional business side and editorial side division of labor.  It is both Co-Edited and Co-Published by Mr. Clark & Pastor Washington in a 50/50 partnering relationship. 

4.  Mr. Clark will serve as Co-Editor & Publisher of BMV Business-focusing on both non-profit and for-profit structuring as well as generating advertising revenue and  contributing to lay-out. 

5.  Pastor Washington (Sangoma), serving as Co-Editor & Publisher on the Editorial side, will focus on shaping BMV’s editorial slant, writing copy and eliciting editorial content.

6.  Pastor Washington will also specialize in Evangelical Lutheran Church in America outreach as well as outreach to the Lutheran Church of Sweden, Uppsala University, the World Lutheran Federation and the diversity of Lutheran faith communities in America.  More, he will specialize in serving as BMV correspondent with the National Museum On African American History & Culture.