Welcome to this intensive, no holds barred, educational episode of Light ‘Em Up!
We’re working to tirelessly to expand our global footprint beyond 111 countries!
Tonight, we are honored to have back one of our all-time most honored guests.
Our especial guest, Dr. Sandy Womack, Jr. -- who is no stranger to Light ‘Em Up -- is our tried-and-true source and resource who can unpack all of these hot and pressing topics for us and provide great clarity and wisdom to them to aide understanding.
Dr. Sandy Womack Jr. is a servant leader with over a generation of successful experience in urban education. He’s an NCAA All-American wrestler with a doctorate in educational leadership, author, principal, district administrator, equity trainer, motivational speaker, and urban school turnaround specialist.
We ask the same question to Dr. Womack as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. asked in August of ’67 when he addressed the 11th Annual Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in Atlanta, Georgia before over 100 Black leaders – “Where do we go from here?”
We’ve reached a critical inflection point as we examine several crucial issues that currently impact the nation, and Black America specifically, in 2024.
He tackles the critical topics of:
— Race & politics: In 2024, the impact of Blacks being the 3rd largest group in America as it relates to political power.
— The black youth and what might its collective future look like; violence & the impact on the perception of Black youth, “Killing them before they grow”
— as well as the intersectionality of the future of a public education, funding and race, examining the question: Is a public education in danger of becoming obsolete?
Some 55+ years after The Kerner Commission got it right, yet no one listened, poverty, crime and inequality still infect our society. (President Lyndon Johnson constituted the Kerner Commission to identify the genesis of the violent 1967 riots that killed 43 in Detroit and 26 in Newark, NJ). We are still, all these years later, plagued by the same issues.
A riot is the language of the unheard. America still has failed to hear many things and act upon the defaulted promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.
We are in an extended period of post-mortem reflection following the time during which racial justice protests were at their most intense.
We now have to ask ourselves:
— What has changed? And what hasn’t?
— Have power and privilege truly been disrupted?
— Has oppression been alleviated?
— What will be the legacy of this moment where we saw global protests in the wake of the killing of George Floyd … has it all been for nothing?
Dr. Womack stresses the fact that there can be no testimony without a test. He went on to say that “I can’t be who I need to be if you’re not who you need to be.” And that the interconnectivity and focusing on what unites versus what divides is what is crucial for our collective advancement.
Womack stated that “Poverty is a huge cause of a variety of different things that impact upon the U.S.” and that “education is economic development”.
Through the education of the future of the world, our youth, he works in an indefatigable manner to change the heart of people and bring the focus back to faith, hope and love.
Tune in to hear a wealth of his wisdoms – we guarantee without a doubt that you will learn much. Follow our sponsors Newsly & Feedspot here: