EDITOR’S NOTE: In honor of The Shadow Foundation’s monumental milestone, Making Headline News deemed it essential to label this feature story our annual Black History 2022 Special Report.

LEAST WE FORGET 

Organizers for The Shadow Foundation are preparing to host a memorable event that figures to impact generations for years to come.

Shadow Foundation official has announced that they will be hosting the Set It Off: Unlocking The Reset Codes, a notable Zoom webinar that will take place on June 19, 2022 from 2-6 p.m. EST.

Generally, the purpose for this empowerment event is to equip current and formerly incarcerated and their families with the necessary resources for reentry, etc., The Shadow Foundation representative told Making Headline News.

In essence, Set It Off: Unlocking The Reset Codes ironically will take place on Juneteenth.

Registration for Set It Off: Unlocking The Reset Codes is available via Eventbrite at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/set-it-off-tickets-265094303197.

“We’re going to Set It Off, Juneteenth 2022 via Zoom from 2:00pm-6:00pm EST,” Shadow Foundation representative Monica Williams said. “The Shadow Foundation and influential speakers will reset the codes of past conditioning to free the mind and restore the African-American Community. We’re going to celebrate Juneteenth by Honoring Opal Lee, grandmother of Juneteenth, and learn the full history, support black-owned businesses, and donate to supportive organizations. The purpose of the event is to equip current and formally incarcerated and their families with the necessary resources for reentry.”

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Juneteenth is suitably known as the oldest known nationally celebrated event commemorating the end of slavery in the United States of America. President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation declared that as of January 1, 1863, all slaves in states in rebellion against the Union “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”

However, it was not until June 19, 1865, or approximately two years later, that the U.S. Army took possession of Galveston Island in Texas and began a war against defenders of slavery that the enslaved people in Galveston could subsequently begin their journey towards freedom.

By all accounts, mass incarceration has picked up where slavery left off, separating families and dehumanizing and traumatizing the descendants of enslaved people. Although the war on drugs had sparked the significant incline of mass incarceration, there are three factors that sustain its impact: over-policing in redlined and marginalized communities, longer sentencing for minor crimes, and endless restrictions after being released.

Surely, the past matters. In fact, there’s a direct line from slavery to the fact that the average black family has only 10 cents for every dollar held by the average white family. Moreover, there’s a direct line from slavery to the fact that black people — while only accounting for 13 percent of the overall population — make up 40 percent of the prison population. Therefore, slavery isn’t something from the distant past. Rather, its impact is felt and seen right even to this day, particularly amongst black Americans.

This country, for the most part, has never truly reckoned with slavery — and if some political leaders have their way, we never will — but we can’t ever hope to effectively fight systemic racism or transform our broken criminal justice system if we don’t truly understand why and how things got to be the way they are.

REGISTER HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/set-it-off-tickets-265094303197

One of the featured speakers slated to attend the Set It Off: Unlocking The Reset Codes is Opal Lee. 

The other featured speakers during Set It Off: Unlocking The Reset Codes are:

• Dennis Fontelroy, President/Founder Fountain of Life Ministries
• William Jones of Build For Life Training and Development dba who serves an Independent Coach, Speaker and Trainer with The John Maxwell Team
• DeMarco D1. Johnson of Prototypical Game Chang3r
• Jean Charles, a longtime Investment Consultant
• Tonyita Shawnée Johnson, a Community Engagement Professional
• LaHeather Wilson, an accomplished entrepreneur
• Dr. Rhonda Turpin, suitably known as That Grant Lady
• Dr. Brendalyn Jackson, President and Founder of Time to Heal America
• Justin DeFoor, a Financial Literacy Consultant
• Elder Joan Thaxter-Randall, Founder and Owner of Victorious/Victorious You Press
• Carl Jackson, CEO of Carl Jackson Motion Pictures Studio 
• Arthur Powell, CEO of EGRESS Consultants and Services, LLC 
• Robert David, Youth and Gang Violence Prevention Coordinator and,
• Corey P. Dunlap, World Class Motivational Speaker
• Clinton M. McCoy, Marketing and Content Production Company

• Teresa Njoroge, Founder of Clean Start

• Jerome Rodgers, Owner R@R Tax and Bookkeeping
• Letitia Scott-Jackson, Founder and CEO of Keeping Families Connected

“I have invited motivational speakers, investment experts, real estate professionals, bankers, grant writers, personal and business credit restoration specialists, educational specialists, resource experts, mental health professionals, financial literacy professionals, and tax experts, all of whom we hope will aid us in restoring, empowering, and building together,” Williams told MHN.

CHANGING A GENERATION

Said LaHeather Wilson: “Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected by it are as passionate about it as those of us who are. Or even as outraged by it as those of us who are”.

Added Tonyita Shawnée Johnson: “True Community Reform will never happen until we Engage the ENTIRE Community. Everyone can add value, regardless of their past”

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