I recently attended a Black History month gala event and as is usually the case it was wonderful. But there was one speech in particular that really spoke to me.

A group of people represented individuals involved with the civil rights movement as well as great leaders from the Caribbean and Africa. But there was this young man who stood up and gave a speech representing Malcolm X. Among tyhe many thought provoking things he said was:

"You know, it is good that we can come here every year and celebrate the great men and women of the past but we need to start to write some history ourselves; we need to make our mark so that future generations can stand up and talk about us and what we have done to contribute to the world, not just in Black communities but everywhere...
what Malcolm and Martin and Rosa and the rest of the 'movement' did was current for them and not history..."


Pretty powerful eh? Well, it certainly had me thinking that I was sitting in a room with people who would be known as members of the generation Malcolm neXt,

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