It Still Takes A Village: The Black Village Paradigm

Numerous Black villages have been destroyed physically; their previous contributions require that we recreate them virtually.

For generations the Black experience in America has been shaped by forces that are relentless and redemptive. From the earliest days of our presence on this soil, our communities learned, sometimes by necessity, always with intention, that survival depended not only on resistance, but on unity. The "village" was not a metaphor: it was a means of collective advancement...