HOUSE OF UMOJA USHERS IN SPRING, WEEKLY SOLUTIONS-BASED COMMUNITY DIALOGUES RECONVENE 26 MAR 202214/3/2022 PHILADELPHIA, PA (USA) – 14 March 2022 – Cognizant of the fact that solutions, much like wisdom, comes from all places, the House of Umoja ushers in Spring as it reconvenes its weekly solutions-based community dialogues on Saturday, 26 March 2022 from 12:00 P.M. (E.S.T.) through 1:00 P.M. (E.S.T.) in the Peace Garden located 5625 West Master Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For over 30 years Umoja has hosted these community dialogues which serve as pathways for exploring, designing, and implementing antidotes for, among other things, gun violence, the school-to-prison-pipeline, structural racism, gentrification, blight, criminal justice and prison reform, and inequities in education, health, and economics.
House of Umoja's Co-Founder and President, Queen Mother Falaka Fattah shares, "Spring is synonymous with rebirth, rejuvenation, regrowth, resurrection and renewal. With that in mind, the House Of Umoja, Inc. is bringing together our community’s healers, thinkers, visionaries, griots, entrepreneurs, activists and youths to exchange and share ideas and solutions that will transform our community into an economically, spiritually, psychologically, and emotionally vibrant oasis that protects its most vulnerable members – Our Children, the Next Generation Of Leaders, Husbands, Fathers, Wives, and Mothers -- and Our Elders, the jewels of our community. Solutions, much like wisdom, come from all places. Each Saturday, beginning on Saturday, 26 March 2022, the House Of Umoja, Inc. is bringing together souls in our community who have ideas and solutions that will bring about rebirth, rejuvenation, regrowth, resurrection, renewal, and peace in our neighborhoods. Every idea is important. Every voice must be heard and dialogue can bring about healing and peace.” To learn how you can participate in the weekly solutions-based dialogues scheduled for Saturdays and orchestrated by the House of Umoja, Inc., commencing Saturday, 26 March 2022 from 12:00 P.M. (E.S.T.) to 1:00 P.M. (E.S.T.) at 5625 West Master Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, call (215) 473-5893 or send an e-mail to: [email protected].
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Sherri Pennington
31/3/2022 08:25:16 pm
I have a proposal for ‘Put the Gun Down Day’. I am a communicator on WKDU, the Black Experience in Music. I also have a weekly Community Spotlight program every Sunday. Will try to attend this Saturday’s meeting
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5/4/2022 03:03:32 pm
Awesome, Sherri. I look forward to your attending the Solution Saturday meeting. You may also email me at [email protected].
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