The My Brothers and Sisters Keeper program held its sixth annual Black Male Kwanzaa Summit on Dec. 30 at the Enoch Davis Center. Held on the fifth day of Kwanzaa, the summit tackled the principle of purpose (Nia).
“I believe we all have a God-given purpose in life — something we were born to do, and you might not even know what you’re born to do. I thought I was going to be a rock star, but it didn’t turn out that way,” said Mayor Ken Welch. “But the things I’ve learned and the mentors I had in my life — folks like Vyrle Davis, Watson Haynes, my dad, and my uncles — instilled in me what I had to.”
Master of ceremony Corey Givens, Jr. encouraged the audience to pause for a moment and honor our ancestors who survived the horrid trip from Africa as human cargo to toil in enslavement and those who fought for our rights as human beings in a country that viewed them as less than. Read more.
