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April 4, 2018 marks the 50th year after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis Tennessee, on the balcony of the Loraine Motel. After his death violence erupted all across Urban America. In the wake of an... more

Marriage is the institutional structure for healthy family development. The family is the building block for any community. Unfortunately, far too many home structures in Urban America are guided by tenets of distrust in the seriousness... more

A ?Doctrine? is a formal or informal set of beliefs shared by people of a common experience. Accordingly, Urban America has a specific doctrine that is common despite geographic location. This doctrine drives the mentality of self defeat and... more

During the last episode the panel began to discuss the fact that there is somewhat of a mutated strand of belief within the Urban experience - when it comes to unity and who represents the significant voices of influence. Tonight we will delve... more

As Building Families and Communities Institute continues it's monthly focus on the three pillars of a community (Education, Economics and Theology), we turn our attention to ?Theology?. This is the last pillar we promised to discuss! It is... more

As BFC Institute continues the conversation about Economics as a pillar of a healthy and viable community, we focus on the importance of preparing youth to be economically established as a citizen of the world. This discussion is... more

A culture is ?a way of life for a people?. For every culture in the world there are driving forces that sustains it. One major driving force of any culture is Economics. As related to Urban American plight and common ethnocentric expressions,... more

HOW EDUCATION AFFECTS THE SOCIAL BEHAVIOR OF URBAN AMERICAN YOUTH During our last episode the unanimous conclusion was that ?Education? is simply a process involving teaching and learning, furthermore in order... more

HOW TO EDUCATE URBAN AMERICAN YOUTH TO BE SUCCESSFUL CITIZENS Because like nowhere else in the world, historically, many youth who grow up in Urban America face particular social emotional challenges, it is... more

PILLARS OF A VIABLE COMMUNITY: HOW RESTORE URBAN AMERICA Too often the use of the word ?COMMUNITY? is reduced to a euphemism that means little of nothing. Particularly when it comes to urban communities, those... more

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