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Sobonfu Somé - Embracing Your Gifts | @marioninstitute
Sobonfu Somé - Embracing Your Gifts | @marioninstitute Baka Omubo 23 Views • 10 months ago

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When most westerners think about gifts, the exchange of material goods, is the image that is most familiar. Little time and attention, however, is given to finding and embracing the gift -- the real reason we are born in this world. As a result most of us cannot make sense of the various events in our life. Drawing on Dagara wisdom, this talk brings to light how everyone has a personal gift that is vital to the well being of the individual and the community.

Sobonfu Somé is a respected author, lecturer, activist and one of the foremost voices in African spirituality. She travels the world on a healing mission, sharing the rich spiritual life and culture of her native land Burkina Faso, West Africa. She is the founder of Wisdom Spring, Inc. an organization dedicated to the preservation, the sharing of indigenous wisdom and organizes fundraisers for wells, schools and health project in Africa. She is the author of The Spirit of Intimacy, Welcoming Spirit Home, Falling Out of Grace and the CDS set Women's Wisdom from the Heart of Africa. Sobonfu's message about the importance of spirit, community, and ritual in our lives rings with an intuitive power and truth that author Alice Walker has said "can help us put together so many things that our modern Western world has broken."

A REVOLUTIONARY ACT
A REVOLUTIONARY ACT Kwadwo Danmeara Tòkunbọ̀ Datɛ 23 Views • 5 months ago

The fight for Black liberation lives on within Chairman Fred Hampton's fiancée and former Black Panther Akua Njeri and their son, Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. We’re excited to premiere our new ten-minute short digital film, “A Revolutionary Act'', about the life and work of Illinois Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton, directed by the talented rising star, MALAKAI. Inspired by the film JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH, this passion project aims to help us unlearn what we were taught about the Black Panther Party in order to truly understand their legacy of love and service to their community.

SAVE THE HAMPTON HOUSE
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#savethehamptonhouse initiative is not just about protecting and restoring Chairman Fred Hampton’s childhood home-- it is a fight for a space to hold important, revolutionary discussions based on real historical context. Let’s help Chairman Fred’s son, Chairman Fred Hampton Jr., #savethehamptonhouse as a crucial first step into reckoning with the true history and legacy of the Black Panther Party and inspiring future leaders in the movement for Black liberation. SaveTheHamptonHouse.org

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A REVOLUTIONARY ACT | Production Credits
Director: MALAKAI
Executive Producer: Anna Hashmi
Producer: Jessica Miller
Line Producer: Kwame Amoaku
DP: Aiden Chapparone
Editor: Troy Josiah Lewis
Composer: Aaron Shaw
Sound Design + Mix: Greer Vincent Rollier
Graphics/Animation: Mehr Chatterjee, Improper Design and Animation
Production Company: Corner Shop Productions
Brought to you by Participant

Special Thanks:
Chicago Film Archive
Chicago History Museum
Chicago Film Office
Sisters In Cinema
Proviso East High School
Nicole Wilson
Save The Hampton House Organization
https://www.savethehamptonhouse.org/

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