Hip Hop, the Hidden Hand, Degradation of Black Masculinity

Hip Hop, the Hidden Hand, Degradation of Black Masculinity. His other works can be viewed and downloaded on http://www.lenonhonorfilms.com .




























Visit the creators website to view part three of this series.

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War on Muslim Women in their homes

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This lecture is about the war zone that is alive behind the closed doors of the Muslim homes. Is their a problem with our home relationships? Is their a problem in our marriages? Is their a problem with how our educational institutions are structured today? These and other important questions are analyzed, commented on, and answered in this empowering presentation.





Shaykh Abdullah Hakim Quick, PhD, embraced Islam in 1970 and thereafter pursued his studies at the Islamic University of Madinah, where he completed a BA from the College of Da'wah and Usul al-Din. He later went for his Masters degree and completed his PhD on the History of Islam in Africa at the University of Toronto, Canada. The focus of his thesis was the life of the great mujaddid of the 18th century, Shaykh Uthman Ibn Fudi.

Shaykh Abdullah Hakim has traveled to more than 34 countries on lecture and educational tours, has served as Imam, teacher and counselor in the USA, Canada and the West Indies. For three years he contributed to the religious page of Canada's leading newspaper. He is presently a Senior Lecturer at the Dar-ul-Arqam Islamic Institute and Director of the Da'wah Department of the Muslim Judicial Council, Cape Town, South Africa.
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Our Black Seminoles - Jan Carew

Elder Jan Rynveld Carew (born 24 September 1920 in Agricola, Guyana) is a novelist, playwright, poet and educator. His works, diverse in their forms and multifaceted, makes of Jan Carew an important intellectual of the Caribbean world. His poetry and his first two novels, Black Midas and The Wild Coast, were significant landmarks of the West Indian literature then attempting through writing to cope with its colonial past and assert its wish for autonomy. Carew also played an important part within the Black movement gaining strength in England and North America, publishing reviews and newspapers, producing programs and plays for the radio and the television. His scholarly research drove him to question traditional historiographies and firstly the prevailing historical models of the conquest of America. In this video he teaches on our African-Indian people Black Seminoles.



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Imani's 1988 Kwanzaa Event

Here is a blast from the past.

This 1988 home Kwanzaa event led to the development of the Uhuru African American Cultural Society which gave birth to the Imani Foundation. The Imani Foundation's annual Kwanzaa event is a descendant of this event. Ashee, Ashee, Ashee. The link to the video is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpiXq7hSf8Q Enjoy !

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Black Male/Female Relations - Naim Akbar

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State of the Race - Louis Clayton Jones

Dedicating his life to the upliftment of Africans iby boldly challenging the systems that constrict advancement. A powerful voice of uncompromising truth, Attn. Louis Clayton Jones stood a giant. Learn from the past & prepare for the future:









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Let it be on your lips - Victor Woods

Motivation for the youth and for people who engage with our youth.

Acclaiamed author, motivational speaker, talk radio host Victor Woods hits home, tackling relevant issuses of todays times with words of hope and direction. To here more from Victor Woods please visit www.victorwoods.com or email him at victormwoods@yahoo.com





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The Colour of Beauty:
"Renee Thompson is trying to make it as a top fashion model in New York. She's got the looks, the walk and the drive. But she’s a black model in a world where white women represent the standard of beauty. Agencies rarely hire black models. And when they do, they want them to look “like white girls dipped in chocolate.”
"The Colour of Beauty is a shocking short documentary that examines racism in the fashion industry. Is a black model less attractive to designers, casting directors and consumers? What is the colour of beauty?"










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THE NEW COVENANT DR MALACHI Z YORK

Teachings of Dr. Malachi Z. York aka Amunnubi Rooakhptah back in 1995.




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Expose' - Where your eggs come from

The organization's website:
http://www.mercyforanimals.org/hatchery

Thrown, dropped, mutilated, and ground-up alive. This is the shocking reality faced by hundreds of thousands of chicks each day at the world's largest egg-laying breed hatchery – Hy-Line International in Spencer, Iowa.

New hidden camera footage obtained at this facility during a Mercy For Animals undercover investigation gives a disturbing glimpse into the cruel and industrialized reality of modern hatcheries.

The warm, comforting, and protective wings of these newly hatched chicks' mothers have been replaced with massive machines, quickly moving conveyor belts, harsh handling, and distressing noise. These young animals are sorted, discarded, and handled like mere cogs in a machine.

For the nearly 150,000 male chicks who hatch every 24 hours at this Hy-Line facility, their lives begin and end the same day. Grabbed by their fragile wings by workers known as "sexers," who separate males from females, these young animals are callously thrown into chutes and hauled away to their deaths. They are destined to die on day one because they cannot produce eggs and do not grow large or fast enough to be raised profitably for meat. Their lives are cut short when they are dropped into a grinding machine – tossed around by a spinning auger before being torn to pieces by a high-pressure macerator.

Over 30 million male chicks meet their fate this way each year at this facility.

For the surviving females, this is the beginning of a life of cruelty and confinement at the hands of the egg industry. Before even leaving the hatchery they will be snapped by their heads into a spinning debeaker – a portion of their sensitive beaks removed by a laser. Workers toss and rummage through them before they are placed 100 per crowded box and shipped across the country.

The callous disregard for animal welfare at this facility is not isolated. In fact, the conditions documented during this investigation are completely standard and acceptable within the commercial egg industry. Referred to by Hy-Line corporate leaders as mere "genetic products," these chicks are treated just as they are viewed – as inanimate objects, rather than the sentient creatures they are.

Egg producers have gone to great lengths to hide their cruel practices from consumers. Grocery aisles from coast-to-coast are stocked with egg cartons featuring idyllic images of free-roaming hens and crowing roosters. These deceptive marketing gimmicks conceal the cruel and violent nature of industrial hatcheries and egg factory farms.

Consumers have a right to know the truth behind egg production.

Citing the troubling findings of this investigation, Mercy For Animals is calling on the nation's 50 largest grocery chains to require that all eggs sold in their stores bear a label reading, "Warning: Male chicks are ground-up alive by the egg industry."

Hopefully, armed with the sobering truth, consumers nationwide will be able to make informed and compassionate food choices.

Driven by consumer demand, the egg industry will continue to exploit, abuse, and kill day-old animals as long as doing so remains profitable. Empowered consumers can put their ethics on the table by choosing kindness over cruelty at each meal by adopting an animal-friendly vegan diet.

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Soul ! (the t.v. show) 1963 - 1978

Soul !

This entertainment-variety-talk show was not only a vehicle to promote African-American artistry, community and culture, but also a platform for political expression and the fight for social justice.
It showcased classic live musical performances from funk, soul, jazz, and world musicians, and had in-depth, extraordinary interviews with political, sports, literary figures and more.
It was the first program on WNET (New York Public Television) to be recorded with the then-new technology of videotape, and most of the shows were recorded in real-time—not live, but unedited. Soul ran from 1968 to 1973.
ABOUT SOUL
■ Memories of Ellis Haizlip and Enlightenment, by SOUL! producer Christopher Lukas

■ About the Hosts

■ 1968 Show Announcement

■ Series Description

■ Soul! Episode List, 1968-1973

■ History: Ellis Haizlip and Soul!

■ Interview: Director Stan Lathan

■ Letters written in support of SOUL!, 1969-73

CLICK HERE FOR ONE OF THE BEST ARCHIVED VIDEOS !

It's a shame people don't dance like this anymore.
The Spinners performing on SOUL! tv WNET NY channel 13 on January 13, 1973.

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Motivational Speaker Victor Antonio

Motivational videos of Speaker Victor Antonio.

Motivational Speaker Victor Antonio on Ziplining and No Fear @ Yahoo! Video

Keynote Motivational Speaker Victor Antonio on Stupid People @ Yahoo! Video

Motivational Speaker & Sales Trainer on the Ripple Effect (Atlanta, Georgia) @ Yahoo! Video

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Life for American Blacks 100 years ago

Excerpt of a series on the oldest Living member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity inc, Brother Dosh Jackson doesnt mind sharing his time knowledge and wisdom about life after 100 years. If you are receiving this correspondence via email and are not able to view the accompanying video please visit http://www.blackimprovementmedia.blogspot.com to watch the video described in the above text.




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Donnie McClurkin on sexuality (video)

102nd COGIC Holy Convocation International Youth Day service. Pastor & Gospel Artist Donnie McClurkin discusses things which are normally taboo and will definetly be seen as politically incorrect. Three videos are below: If you are receiving this correspondence via email and are not able to view the accompanying video please visit http://www.blackimprovementmedia.blogspot.com/ to watch the videos.




More on Donnie McClurkin:
http://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/articles/music/a_pastors_heart/9781/p1/

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Don't Cry To Quit...Cry To Keep Going

From Begin Life Now - http://www.beginlife.com :

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Analyzing White America - Paul Mooney

Video description: Angry, fearless and divisive, comedian Paul Mooney takes direct aim at racism in his stand-up act. The former 'Chapelle's Show' contributor offers his controversial take on Sept. 11 and race in his typical scathing style. Chrisitan / Islamic sensitivity warning !


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A Glimpse Inside Nelson Mandela

A Glimpse Inside Nelson Mandela's Memoirs
New Book Reveals The Innermost Thoughts Of The International Civil Rights Giant

Nelson Mandela may well be the most admired human being alive. It's difficult to imagine who could compete with him for the title. He went from being prisoner to president and, in the process, became an icon. But he is such a private man that we know very little about what he felt and thought throughout the 92 years of his life. That is, until now.

A book is coming out this week called "Conversations with Myself." It's a collection of his notes, letters, diaries, scribblings, most of which he wrote during his 27 years in prison. We literally read what was going on in his mind when he was leading a struggle, when he was preparing to lead a nation. We've known Mandela the man of history. Now we can begin to know Mandela the man.

He's hardly ever seen in public now, and doesn't give interviews. He leaves home only for very special occasions, like a visit to his great granddaughter Zenani's school.

"And where do you come from?" he asked one little girl at the school.

"I come from London," she replied.

"Oh! London? Have you met the queen there?" Mandela replied, with a chuckle.

That's the Mandela we've seen so little of - the Mandela who is captured in "Conversations with Myself." The book project began with an extraordinary mandate from him: take my personal archives and do what you want with them.

"He's said, 'I don't want you to ask me, Is this too personal, is this too potentially embarrassing,'" Verne Harris, the chief archivist at the Mandela Foundation, told "60 Minutes" correspondent Bob Simon.

Harris spent years going through the mountains of material.

"He wants to see the Mandela as they say, warts and all?" Simon asked.

"He said, 'You don't have to protect me,'" Harris replied.

Mandela kept records of everything: in desk calendars, memo pads - every scrap of paper he could lay his hands on.

The most revealing are two notebooks with drafts of letters he wrote from Robben Island, South Africa's Alcatraz, where he was serving a life sentence for sabotage.

Mandela was allowed to send and receive one letter every six months. And the letters reveal that his passion for his wife Winnie never waned.

"What a masterpiece," he wrote after she sent him a picture of herself. "The picture has aroused all the tender feelings in me and softened the grimness that is all around. It has sharpened my longing for you and our sweet and peaceful home."

Winnie had become Mandela's voice on the outside and the Apartheid regime came down on her with a vengeance. She was repeatedly thrown into jail and tortured. The struggle was now not only devastating their lives - their two young daughters had been effectively abandoned.

Mandela was incredibly blunt about what awaited them. "My Darlings" he wrote. "Once again, our beloved Mommy has been arrested and now she and Daddy are away in jail…you may live like orphans without your own home and parents… you will get no birthday or Christmas parties, no presents or new dresses, no shoes or toys."

"What does it feel like reading it today?" Simon asked Mandela's youngest daughter, Zindzi.

"It takes me back to difficult times,” she replied. “It's still not easy to talk about those times.”

Zindzi Mandela was a toddler when he was taken away. She didn't see him again until she was 15 and travelled to visit him on the island. They were separated by a glass partition; guards listened to every word.

"He was so protective and so charming and he tried to make me imagine sitting at home on his lap in front of the fireplace and him reading me a story," she remembered.

Zindzi Mandela told Simon she cried, but that her father did not. "I have very rarely seen my father like even close to tears," she said.

But Mandela wrote with tears of what he went through when his mother died, and when his eldest son Thembi was killed in a car crash. "The news was broken to me at two thirty p.m.," he wrote. "Suddenly my heart had seemed to stop beating, and the warm blood that had freely flowed in my veins for the last 51 years froze into ice."

Mandela asked for permission to leave the island and attend their funerals; the authorities said no.

Mac Maharaj, a fellow prisoner, says Mandela didn't even wince. "He had to hold his emotions tightly to himself. He could not divulge to the authorities and let them feel that this was a weakness in his armor," Maharaj said.

Reveal nothing: that was Mandela's strategy. And organize the prisoners into a government in waiting. He never doubted that the racist regime would be overthrown. So even back then, he started preparing. First move: learn the language of the oppressor, Afrikaans.

"The language of the enemy?" Simon asked.

"The language of the enemy and I was totally opposed to it. And he said to me, 'Mac, do you agree that we are now in a protracted war?' I said, 'Yes.' He says, ‘You’ve got to understand the general on the other side.' I said, ‘Yes.’ He says, ‘To understand him you've got to understand his language,'" Maharaj remembered.

The book contains defiant letters Mandela wrote to the authorities reminding them that, as political prisoners, they had rights and should be treated with dignity. In response, he got a visit from a general who was intent on putting Mandela in his place.

"And he says to Mandela, 'Mandela? You better remember you are a prisoner.' And in a very polite way he says to him, 'General, you and I may be generals on the opposite side of this war. At some point even if it is to accept the surrender from the other we'll have to meet. And how we treat each other now will determine how we interact at that moment,'" Maharaj remembered.

The regime was then forced to change its strategy. It tried to undermine Mandela in the most insidious way: he was moved to a private house in a prison on the mainland, equipped with a chef and a swimming pool. Officials came to see him, brought along a case of wine, and tempted him to sell out.

"This was the key moment for me in Nelson Mandela's life. This was when he was most at risk, because he starts negotiating from prison on his own. He's incredibly vulnerable," Verne Harris explained.

Asked what could have happened to him, Harris said, "He could have been played into making concessions. He could have been played into compromising himself in ways that would have been irredeemable. And he didn't make one mistake."

So when he walked out of prison, he knew - the world knew - that he was walking to the presidency, taking over the country that had been run by white racists for more than 40 years.

"How do you explain that incredible confidence?" Simon asked Harris.

"I think from very early on he had a very strong sense of destiny. And there was almost a sense that he knew he needed to go to prison before coming out to do the work that awaited him," he replied.

"He knew before he was captured, that one day he would be called President Mandela?" Simon asked.

"I think so," Harris said.

He may have won, but the country was on the brink of a civil war. He ruled with the exact same strategy he had employed as a prisoner: don't go for revenge, go for reconciliation.

He showed up at the finals of rugby's World Cup. This was the most popular sport among whites in South Africa. And here was a black president wearing the team jersey, waving the team cap. Spectators and the team were stunned. Mandela had won again.

He brought Afrikaners into his government, including Zelda La Grange. She has rarely spoken out before but, because of the book, she spoke to "60 Minutes."

Back then, she was a typist in the presidential office building when Mandela took over. One day she literally bumped into him in a corridor.

"And he stopped me and he started speaking in Afrikaans with me," La Grange remembered. "Which is my home language. And I didn't understand a word he was saying because I was so shocked. There was a feeling of guilt immediately overtaking my emotions that I felt responsible for taking away so many years of his life."

"You broke down?" Simon asked.

"Yes, yes, I started crying," she remembered.

Mandela hired La Grange, and brought her into his office. He wanted his old oppressors to know they'd be okay in the new South Africa. Zelda La Grange had a role to play.

Asked if she thinks her hiring was a political decision, La Grange told Simon, "Yes, definitely. There was some political thinking behind it for sure, some strategy, absolutely."

It wasn't long before La Grange became his most trusted assistant. For the last 16 years, every pop star, politician, president or pope who wanted to see the great man knew enough to cozy up to Zelda La Grange.

"You become his granddaughter didn't you?" Simon asked.

"I mean, I love him like my, you know, my own family," she replied.

"Love is the word?" Simon asked.

"Definitely. Adore, love, admire," she replied.

It wasn't just La Grange. Mandela was winning the love and admiration of just about everyone. But there was one person who didn't buy into all that: Nelson Mandela. He was actually troubled that the world saw him as a saint.

"I never was one," he wrote at the end of the book, "even on the basis of an earthly definition of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying."

And Mandela was the first to admit that, before he went to prison, he didn't try very hard. He once told Mac Maharaj that he'd "led a thoroughly immoral life."

His first wife divorced him, at least in part because of his alleged infidelities. And now that he's no longer a partisan or a president, many tales are being told of his many days and many nights with many women.

But Maharaj doesn't think this will tarnish Mandela's image. "Because he's a human being. He's like you and I."

But he's not. How could he be? He is the leader of one of the most important revolutions of the 20th century, and nothing else ever mattered.

"Whenever he had to choose, your father chose the struggle over his family. Did that make you angry?" Simon asked Zindzi Mandela.

"Oh, yes, it did. Of course it did," she replied. "I would get hurt. I would get angry, especially when I was younger. I mean I grew up wanting my father to come back home. Wanting to be an ordinary family. I don't know what it was like to have a father, to tuck me in at night. "

Mandela knew what he was doing to the lives of his family but says he would do it all over again. "They are not the only people who are suffering," he says in the book, "Hundreds, millions, in our country are suffering…I felt I made the correct decision.'"

Mandela dedicated the book to his great granddaughter Zenani; this past June she was killed in a car crash.

The Direct Link:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/10/07/60minutes/main6936384.shtml

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The God Complex part 1 & 2 - Da Ghetto Tymz

Chrisitan,Islamic, & Jewish sensitivity warning.
Many never had a problem visualizing 'God' as, first, a whiteman, then second, a brutha. But are either of these true? See more Video Articles at Da Ghetto Tymz magazine's, DGTv - http://daghettotymz.com/dgtv/dgtv.html


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7 deadly sins - Umar Abdullah Johnson

Umar Abdullah-Johnson breaks down the 7 deadly sins for Africans:

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History of Hip-Hop - Jimmy Fallon

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Rev. Ray Hagin - A Woman on a mission

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Christian Sensitivity Warning ! Do not listen if you fear your faith will be compromised:
Pastor Hagin preaches/teaches on the Historic acomplishments of Women and his take on the Biblical-based male superiority concepts that, in his opinion, have negatively impacted the world. Click the following link to watch the video:
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/9110044

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Dr. Kwadwo - We Are All Africans

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In this video: Dr. Kwadwo speaks on "We are all Africans."
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Early depictions of African decended Jews

YouTube videos that depict an African presence in early Jewish culture. If you are receiving this correspondence via email and are not able to view the accompanying video please visit http://www.blackimprovementmedia.blogspot.com/ to watch the videos.





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Chris Rock's Educational Video - Police Officers

Chris Rock's comedic educational video on how not to be beat-up by Police Officers. Profanity warning ! If you are receiving this correspondence via email and are not able to view the accompanying video please visit http://www.blackimprovementmedia.blogspot.com to watch the video or visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj0mtxXEGE8 to watch the video on YouTube.

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Get Out The Way - Frank Brown

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http://www.mediamogulonline.com/ Frank is passionate about speaking & motivating. Comedy, music, & motivation, he provides, “Pure Edutainment”. Keynotes, to orientations, to student activities he specialize in customized presentations that will inspire & educate. In this message he tells you to tell your naysayers to "Get out of the way !"

Frank Brown Motivational Speaker of the Year @ Yahoo! Video

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British Black Boys and School

The schooling system in the UK is not doing much good for African children and particularly our young boys. This is a short documentary which looks at how three London schools are looking to address this problem as best as they can. Ultimately, the solutions to this SYMPTOM (black underachievement in school) lie in Africans ourselves understanding the underlying CAUSES and dealing with those in a consistent and dilligent manner.






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Daymond John - Black Billionaire

The founder of FUBU was not always on top of the world... he started with virtually no money and rose to build a billion-dollar empire. Get his complete story here!

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Lonny Johnson - Inventor of the Super Soaker !

Lonny Johnson - Inventor of the Super Soaker !


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The Whole World is African

World History with a Moorish slant..... The whole world is African:

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There is no hell - Bishop Pearson

Several years ago, Bishop Carlton Pearson, did and said things that sent shockwaves throughout the black church. He shocked the members of his Pentecostal mega-church, along with other prominent church leaders when he publicly stated there is no such thing as hell, and he embraced homosexual men and women.

Pearson questioned the doctrines of his faith and made a public argument for the inclusion and validity of all religions. That did not sit well with leaders of the Pentecostal faith. They denounced his new thoughts and ideology and banished Pearson. He was declared a heretic by his peers, and Pearson instantly became a pariah. Pearson’s flourishing membership at his Higher Dimensions Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma dwindled from 5,000 members to less than 1,000. The drastic decline in members caused the church building and property to be sold at a tremendous loss in order to avoid foreclosure in 2006. With only a fraction of his original congregation in tow, Pearson and his remaining followers began meeting at the Trinity Episcopal Church, and renamed their church New Dimensions Worship Center. Later that same year, Pearson was accepted as a United Church of Christ minister and eventually, in 2008, New Dimensions Church was absorbed into the All Souls Unitarian Church.

Now, the former mega-church bishop, televangelist, and award-winning gospel recording artist picks up where his previous book ends and continues to raise provocative and controversial questions about God, religion, dogma, doctrine, and faith in his second book, GOD IS NOT A CHRISTIAN, NOR A JEW, MUSLIM, HINDU…: God Dwells with Us, in Us, Around Us, as Us (Atria Books).

Pearson explores new interpretations of scripture and presents a perspective that looks beyond mainstream religious fundamentalism, Pearson notes that God belongs to no particular religion but is rather, a constant presence that everyone can access. Giving a public face to a philosophy and ideology that many others in the clergy agree with but are afraid to acknowledge and embrace, Pearson, ever the pioneer, spreads his message of universalism and love in an intriguing and thought-provoking manner.

With his extensive knowledge of religious history and writings, Pearson probes the concept of hell and proposes that it is not the fiery underworld pit of conventional teaching but “a human creation used to terrify masses into behaving as their religious institutional guardian desires.” Pearson notes the buzz in some religious circles is that he doesn’t believe in hell anymore, which he says is both true and false.

Bishop Carlton Pearson is an independent spiritual leader and successful gospel recording artist. He was once an heir-apparent to Oral Roberts and a bishop in the Pentecostal Church where he presided over 600 churches. He lives in Chicago where he serves as Interim Sr. Minister of the 6,000 member Christ Universal Temple For Better Living.






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