Message from Susan L. Taylor regarding A New Way Forward: Healing What’s Hurting Black America Friday, December 3rd
Greetings, Beloved Bay Area Community!
I am over the moon about your amazing response to the National CARES Mentoring Movement’s call to join Oakland Bay Area CARES in creating a safe and nourishing new world for our children and community.
When I was informed this evening that we would have to turn away several hundred caring people because our Preservation Park space was at maximum capacity for the debut of A New Way Forward: Healing What’s Hurting Black America, I knew we should change the venue to accommodate the many Bay Area brothers and sisters who are genuinely committed to supporting our vulnerable young. So for tomorrow’s inaugural celebration, we have just secured a larger space to accommodate your overwhelming response.
The new venue is:
Marriott City Center/Oakland Convention Center
1001 Broadway, Oakland, CA
Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and our program begins at 6:00 p.m.
Lou Gossett, Jr., Michael Eric Dyson, Dr. Wade Nobles, Dr. Na’im Akbar, asha bandele, Dr. Joyce King, George Fraser, Rev. Andriette Earl, Dr. Joel Martin, Dr. Shawn Ginwright, Dereca Blackmon and I will be there to greet you and speak about how Black people can heal in body, mind, spirit and community. Come if you want to know more about this new national initiative, debuting here in Oakland. Come if you want to de-stress and fortify your spirit. Come if you want to lead a healthy, peaceful and productive life. Come if you want to mentor and advance our struggling young who are longing for caring adults willing to volunteer just an hour a week to help encourage and guide them.
A New Way Forward is a consciousness-changing initiative, created by an inter-generational braintrust of 60 phenomenal African American leaders, to help us recover from the burden of slavery we still carry and continued racism weighing heavily on us. It is to foster peace, prosperity, mutual love and healing within the Black community.
All so we will become the protective shield our children are crying out for. All of us, linking arms and aims, will stir up our people’s passions and direct them toward serving and securing our vulnerable young. It’s a huge mandate! And the most important work of our time. Come if you are privileged to be able.
See you Friday, December 3rd at 5:30 p.m!
Susan
Susan L. Taylor CEO and Founder, National CARES Mentoring Movement Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, Essence Magazine
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