by familyvoices | Jan 21, 2020 | FamU, FamU - Tools - Ally
The Journey of Becoming an Authentic Ally What is an ally? Dictionary.com’s definition: “to associate or connect by mutual relationship, as resemblance or friendship”. As overused as the word ally has become in recent years, it has become important as a means for folk...
by familyvoices | Jan 20, 2020 | FamU - BC - The Arts
America’s Cultural Roots Traced to Enslaved Africans Most traditional West African societies, the sources of the vast majority of enslaved Africans in the Americas, had dynamic, vibrant, expressive cultures. The languages spoken were unusually animated, by most...
by familyvoices | Jan 20, 2020 | FamU, FamU - Youth
Youth Leadership Youth Leadership is generally defined as the practice of teens and young adults exercising the authority over themselves. Further elaborated by Learning to Give as a “theory of youth development as a process that prepares young people to navigate...
by familyvoices | Jan 20, 2020 | FamU - Bc - Slavery In America
Slavery In America – Timeline Within several decades of being brought to the American colonies, Africans were stripped of human rights and enslaved as chattel, an enslavement that lasted more than two centuries. Slavers whipped slaves who displeased them. Clergy...
by familyvoices | Jan 20, 2020 | FamU - BC - Civil Rights Era
Reconstruction Reconstruction (1865-1877), the turbulent era following the Civil War, was the effort to reintegrate Southern states from the Confederacy and 4 million newly-freed people into the United States. Under the administration of President Andrew Johnson in...
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