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A Video Tour of the National African American Museum of History and Culture shared by Howard Spence during Black History Month 2025.
During October 7 of 2023, the Lansing Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) held its 57th Annual Freedom Fund Banquet and Fund Raiser at the Crowne Plaza Hotel here in Delta Township of Eaton County. This very well attended fundraiser featured a keynote speech by the National President of the NAACP - Attorney Derrick Johnson. I attended and video recorded many of the pictures of attendees and also video recorded the entire keynote speech. "We are at War, Let Us Thrive Together."
I have posted a video coleidoscope of pictures of an excited group of attendees including numerous elected officials, candidates, and voters and also in a separate 33 minute recording below the entirety of NAACP President Derrick Johnson's keynote speech.
Since this is "Black History Month of 2025," and we are suffering from a shocking defeat at the hands of unltra-conservative MAGA zealots led by their candidate seeking retribution for his loss to Joe Biden in 2020 and a failed attempted coup or insurrection led by Donald Trump on January 6, 2021 - the threat then to the basic democratic institutions and legacy which continues to plague our country beginning January 20, 2025 when Donald Trump returned to power as the 47th President of the United States...
What better lesson in Black History Month 2025 than to look back and see the history of the threats to people of color which has not been so huge since the days of chattel slavery of Black people in the United States since 1619 up to the "first US Civil War" which was then followed by a century of Jim Crow racism and intimidation of people of color, and the descendants of Negro slaves in particular...
Enjoy, see history being made and discussed (and hopefully learned) so that we can go into the future and not make the same mistakes yet one more time.
My apologies for the quality of the video and some of the audio. I recorded the 2023 Lansing NAACP on my smartphone from a distance. The music or sound added to these four podcasts is licensed to me by Artlist.io and none of my Podcasts have been monetized.
We have come this far by faith. We may be frustrated and surely may be tired, but we get up off our knees, learn and remember our bruises, and climb further up the mountain!
Ten years ago or more, I put together a "Powerpoint(r) presentation entitled "Christian Fellowship - Being a Part of the Body of Christ..." That project started out as a simple request from one of the "elders" at the Holmes Road Church of Christ where I was worshiping that I present a short presentation on "Fellowship" for group of congregation brothers who were meeting on a Saturday morning at a brothers breakfast and "prayer" session. I really got into the project. It had been many years since I had done even basic "Bible Study" even though I was attending religious services on a weekly basis at that time. I started doing some "research" on the topic, and what had been anticipated to be a 5-10 presentation ended up being a Powerpoint(r) presentation of approximately an hour... Some of the brothers attending that prayer breakfast seemed a bit uneasy and uncomfortable with my presentation and the questions I was raising about "what is Christian fellowship and who should be a part of our Christian fellowship?" I posted my presentation on several social media sites including on my MinorityADR site on Youtube (@MinorityADR2090). Over the past decade that presentation - even though quite lengthy - received hundreds of views on some of the websites where I was posting including Slideshare (which was later purchased by Scrbt). More recently I have begun podcasting, and for the past few years I have posted opinion pieces on my Black-Gold.org website dealing with responses to news events I came across in the news relating to White Christianity, Christian Nationalism, The Black Church, and hypocrisy I sensed in the visits I made to certain Christian congregations and denominations locally in Mid-Michigan churches. Find related articles on my Black-Gold.org Blog site indexed under the keyword or index at: https://black-gold.org/?blogcategory=... True to the way I taught for years online and elsewhere, I followed the practice of teaching by asking questions designed to cause thought and reflection. That approach was also consistent with the Socratic method of teaching and learning I experienced when I was attending the UMich lawschool way back in the 1970s. I welcome and thank those who take time to view or listen to my podcast - it is an hour and twenty minutes long. :-) And I am not persuading or hoping to impose my beliefs on anyone. But comments and critiques and counter arguments are appreciated. Maybe some religious leaders will want to take some of the points and arguments I make to generate their own presentations or sermons countering or supplementing my response to the issue "What is Christian fellowship?" Please note that my podcasts and blog articles are not monetized by me.
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