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Empowerment & freedom

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The Prison of Your Mind | Sean Stephenson | TEDxIronwoodStatePrison

Extraordinary talk by a therapist and author who is also multiply disabled about not believing any predictions that don’t empower you.

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Guru Jagat: Take Back Our Sovereignty

“If you know how to hypnotize yourself, then no one can ever hypnotize you. That’s power. That’s sovereignty.” – Guru Jagat Guru Jagat teaches the crowd at Wanderlust about the importance of sovereignty-or self-governance or authority-over our thoughts.

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Black Profiles in Courage

In this ideal introduction to black history, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar examines the lives of heroic African Americans and offers their stories as inspiring examples for young people, who too rarely encounter positive black role models in history books or in the media.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem, alan Steinberg

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FindCenter There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will . . . spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.

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James H. Cone

James H. Cone, the Bill and Judith Moyers Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology at Union Theological Seminary, came to YDS as the culmination of this semester’s All School Read program.

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Black Theology and Black Power

The classic work of Black Theology—still relevant and challenging after 50 years—with a new introduction by Cornel West First published in 1969, Black Theology and Black Power provided the first systematic presentation of Black Theology, while also introducing the voice of an African American...

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Raise the Lamp of Liberty! Declare Your Inner Independence

We may live in a democratic society, but unless we are free of the inner bondage of fear and separation, we are not truly free.

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