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Hosts: Kasabez Maakmaah, Giziribtah Debasah & Nehez Meniooh

Guests: Marquinn McDonald

We start our new series on community protection with Marquinn McDonald of Watchguard Chicago. McDonald is a master of self-defense. Studying and teaching martial arts as well as competing in martial arts competitions he teaches self-defense to men, women and children. He mentors young men and works with others to organize community towards village values and self-responsibility and protection. His Watchguard organization patrols Chicago’s South side neighborhoods in order to take extreme ownership for the Chicago streets that we call home. Watchguard is available for coaching you to start block clubs and form block chains in order to take an active role in the protection of yourself, your family, your neighborhood and city.

In this episode, we discuss:

1. Introducing Marquinn McDonald

2. Grandmother Nana Ruby Griffin - Legacy of Defense

3. Uncle First Sensei - Legacy of Martial Artist

4. The Sensei of Chicago - Teaching Self-Defense

5. Value of Martial Arts to Youth & Health

6. A Family of Police Officers - Good Examples & Bad Examples

7. What is Watchguard?

8. Scope & Impact of Watchguard?

9. Training, Skills & Focus of Watchguard

10. Size of Watchguard & Expanding the Impact

11. Holistic Approach to Real Problem of Violence

12. Importance of Block Club Associations

13. We must take “Extreme Ownership”

14. Contacting Watchguard

Links:

Marquinn McDonald

[email protected]

https://www.instagram.com/the_sensei_of_chicago/

Watchguard Chicago

Website: watchguardchicago.org

Email: [email protected]

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WatchguardChicago/

Toni Anderson

https://speakerhub.com/speaker/toni-anderson

https://www.linkedin.com/in/toni-mindfulrant-llc-904175255

mindfulrantllc.life

Chicago Beyond

https://chicagobeyond.org/

Ujimaa Medics

https://www.umedics.org/

Chicago CRED

https://www.chicagocred.org/

The Kerner Report

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691174242/the-kerner-report

Black Researchers Collective

https://www.blackresearcherscollective.com/staff

Community Assistance Programs

https://capsinc.org/

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Hosts: Nehez Meniooh, Kasabez Maakmaah & Giziribtah Debasah

Guest: Nekhitem Kamenthu, Executive Director of The Earth Center

In this continuation of our commemoriation of 25 years of the Kebtah mission in the West, we speak with our Executive Director, Nekhitem Kamenthu. We talk about our experiences working to keep this mission going after the death of our founder, Master Naba Lamoussa Morodenibig, and how our activities ahve expanded since that time.

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Hosts: Nehez Meniooh & Kasabez Maakmaah

In this final installment of our series on health and healing your hosts bring the topic to a close with some poignant analysis.

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Hosts: Nehez Meniooh & Kasabez Maakmaah

Guest: Cicely McClennon

In our final interview in our series on health resources, we turn our attention to food. Our guest this time is Cicely McClennon. Cicely is a long time activist and organizer for revolutionary struggle. Her focus has been on food sovereignty, the effort to control our own land and grow our own food, whether in an urban or rural setting. Cicely is a "native" of Englewood in Chicago and a repatriate to Ghana in Africa. She works with many food growing and processing organizations and cooperatives, in addition to legislators involved with food policy to provide access to quality food and profitability to food producers.

In this episode, we discuss:

0:00 - 0:41 - Intro

0:42 - 3:31:6 - Welcome & Today’s Guest Introduction

3:31:7 -6:17.6 - Kebtah Milestones & Upcoming Events

6:19.1 - 7:55 - The Year of Truth

7:56.2 - 25:49.8 - Byron Allen & The Griot Awards

25.50 - 27:32.2 - Episode Proverb

27:32.3 - 35:52 - Introducing Cicely McClennon

35:53 - 41:55 - Englewood Food Deserts, White Flight & Gentrification

41:56 - 46:28.2 - Student of Llaila Afrika & Understanding Nutritional Value

46:28.3 - 48:39 - Assessments & Healthy People dying young & Metabolic Capacity

48:40 - 57:37.9 - Food as luxury vs Food as medicine

57:38.0 - 1:05:14.1 - Local Growers/Local Food Advocacy with State Rep

1:05:14.2 - 1:08:56.7 - Other pillars/resources in the Food Advocacy Movement

1:08:56.8 - 1:15:37.3 - Work in Ghana with Food Cooperatives

1:15:37.4 - 1:23:59 - Current projects to raise awareness on Food Advocacy

1:24:00.7 - 1:29:09.7 - Building from the basis of human society

1:29:09.8 - 1:34:24.3 - Control your food or surrender your freedom: Work vs Slavery

1:34:24.4 - 1:39:33.4 - Spiritual aspect of nature

1:39:33.5 - Dietary considerations

Contact Info for Cicely McClennon:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cicely-mcclennon-59323b4

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/newafrikan/

X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/cicelymcclennon

Email: [email protected]

Resources for the Episode:

Byron Allen Griot Awards full speech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GlIO09WVr8

Dr Kweli Kwaza’s instagram

https://www.instagram.com/drkwelikwaza1/

Kemetic Diet Part 1

https://www.risingfirefly.org/sunnyside-blog/survivors-notebook-the-kemetic-diet?rq=diet

Kemetic Diet Part 2

https://www.risingfirefly.org/sunnyside-blog/the-kemetic-diet-part-ii?rq=diet

State Representative Sonya Harper

https://www.repsonyaharper.com/

Illinois EATS Initiative:

https://www.dhs.state.il.us/page.aspx?item=154467

Chicago Botanic Garden’s Kenya Sample: 
https://www.chicagobotanic.org/urbanagriculture/staff

Grow Greater Englewood:

https://www.growgreater.org/

Growing Home:

https://www.growinghomeinc.org/

Urban Grower’s Collective (Erika Allen)

https://www.urbangrowerscollective.org/

Ankhkasta Natural Healing Spiritual Healing Services

https://anhlife.org/pages/healingservices

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Hosts: Nehez Meniooh, Kasabez Maakmaah & Giziribtah Debasah

Guests: Dr. Obari Cartman

We continue our series on healing resources with an episode on mental health. We talk to a leading African-centered mental health practitioner, Dr. Obari Adéye Cartman. Dr. Cartman Is the former director of the Chicago chapter of the Association of Black Psychologists. He explains the revolutionary approach of America’s community of African centered psychologists or sakhu sheti on a troubled, unhealthy medical field.

00:00 - 1:15 - Intro

1:16 - 4:05 - Today’s Guest: Dr. Obari Adéye Cartman

4:06 - 8:50 - Dietary Superstitions & Ideologies

8:51 - 12:46 - Proverb of Episode 11

12:47 - 14:42 - Welcoming our Guest

14:43 - 21:37 - Modern Psychologists vs Sakhu sheti

21:38 - 25:59 - Path to African-centered Mental Health

26:00 - 29:27 - Effective mental health practice techniques

29:28 - 35:45 - Afrocentric Upbringing & Family Roots

35:46 - 51:40 - Mental Health Issues in Black Communities of Chicago

51:41 - 55:57 - Power of Words & Emotional Culture

55:58 - 59:54 - Dr. Cartman’s projects in Chicago community

59:55 - 1:02:59 - Lady’s Man - Conversations for Black Men About Manhood and Relationships - book

1:03:00 - 1:05:59 - Infiltrating a colonial system from within?

1:06:00 - 1:13:54 - Curriculum inside Juvenile Detention Centers

1:13:55 - 1:18:55 - A New book on Spirituality, Mental Health & Spiritual warfare

1:18:56 - 1:20:47 - PSA on African Clothes vs. #GarbMonkeySuit

1:20:48 - 1:30:27 - Modern Education vs. Initiative Traditions

1:30:28 - 1:37:13 - Spiritual Healing & Ankhkasta Natural Healing

Dr. Obari Adéye Cartman’s website:

https://www.drobaricartman.com

Purchase the book:

https://www.drobaricartman.com/product-page/book-lady-s-man

Black Class Press Books

https://www.blackclassicbooks.com/

Association Of Black Psychologists, Inc.

https://abpsi.org/

Ankhkasta Natural Healing Spiritual Healing Services

https://anhlife.org/pages/healingservices

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Hosts: Nehez Meniooh and Giziribtah Debasah

Field Correspondent: Kasabez Maakmaah

Guests: Menkaseb Pernebsati, Z’wadji Merutepiaou, Cashus D, Nubian Malik, Kwabena Rasuli, Joshua Akrun, Nicholas Brooks-Bey & Anthany Michael

Kwanzaa Presenters: Osei & Anita Andrews-Hutchinson, Gimbu Kali & Del Marie

We take a break from our series on healing resources in order to join in the Kwanzaa celebrations happening around the city of Chicago. We talk to elders who lead events, presenters, visitors and newcomers to the holiday. We investigate the history, the symbols, as well as the language and meaning of the nguzo saba, the seven principles that make up the Kwanzaa holiday celebration that was started in 1966.

We speak with two members of Kebtah from Kenya to give an authentic perspective on the Swahili words used in Kwanzaa, from the name to the seven principles. We also speak about the roots of language and holidays and the current Kemetic fasting period that reaches back before the current era and was practiced in Pharaonic Africa and has been preserved in traditional Africa until today.

In this episode, we discuss:

The Kwanzaa Holiday Celebrations of Chicago in 2023

The Meaning & History of Kwanzaa

The Swahili language

The meaning of the nguzo saba:

Umoja - Unity

Kujichagalia – Self-determination & The importance of choosing

Ujimaa – Collective work, responsibility & duty

Ujamaa – Collective Economics & Brotherhood

Nia – Purpose

Kuumba - Creativity

Imani - Faith

Colonization & Neo-Colonization

Black Panther Party & Us Movement vs COINTELPRO

Culture & language in Kenya

Energetic Vulnerability of Winter

Ongoing revolutionary fights in Africa

One language for Africa

National language

Importance of knowing your history

Links:

F.A.C.T. Fundamental African Centered Thought – a chapter on the history of Kwanzaa: https://www.offthecorner.net/2020/08/fact-fundamental-african-centered.html?m=1

It Takes A Village Family of Schools: https://itavschools.org/

Village Leadership Academy: https://www.vlacademy.org/

Learn More about the Kem Fasting Period: https://www.risingfirefly.org/sunnyside-blog/origins-of-fasting?rq=Fasting%20Period

Kem Fasting Journal: https://www.risingfirefly.org/shop/p/10-day-fast-journal?rq=Fasting%20Period

Keywords: Kwanzaa, African holidays, African revolutionaries, African thought, Swahili language, One language for Africa, African Sovereignty, Repatriation, Kenya, Fasting, Origins, Hieroglyphs, Medu, Medu Ntr, Medu Ntchr

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Hosts: Nehez Meniooh, Kasabez Maakmaah, and Giziribtah Debasah

Guests: Chairman Tanya Lozano and Chairman Allen Washington of Healthy Hood Chicago

Interview starts 30 minutes in.

We continue our series on healing resources with Healthy Hood Chicago a non-profit organization founded by Tanya Lozano. Healthy Hood Chicago is a revolutionary organization aimed at erasing the alarming gap of life expectancy between communities of color and white affluent neighborhoods. They offer an array of programming to the community for health, nutrition, mental health, art entrepreneurship, political education and community building and partnership to provide a backdrop conducive to leading a healthy lifestyle.

In this episode, we discuss:

Legacy of activism in the Lozano Family - Rudy Lozano and Emma Lozano

The origins of Healthy Hood Chicago

KNVS Arts & Culture

Evolution of community movements

Coming together across cultural boundries for the common good

AES (Alliance of States of the Sahel) new alliance between Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger

Season for spiritual pilgrimages and Ancestral ceremonies

MAAYA SIRA Animist pilgrimage 2023 in Mali

Definition of Voodoo/Voudoun and it's history as a heritage for descendants of the African Diaspora

Ivory Coast, Gold Coast, Slave Coast

Conspicuously simultaneous rise in terrorism and mining in Burkina Faso

"Hidden countries": traditionalists living outside post-colonial rule

Here are some links to information, people and groups referenced in the episode:

Healthy Hood Chicago:

https://www.healthyhoodchi.com/

https://www.instagram.com/healthyhoodchi/

https://www.youtube.com/@healthyhoodp.e.7467

KNVS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLrF2zAzqsA

Centro Sin Fronteras:

https://familialatinaunidacom.wordpress.com/

https://www.facebook.com/centrosin.fronteras/

The Death Gap – David A Ansell

https://www.amazon.com/Death-Gap-How-Inequality-Kills/dp/022642815X

Coffee, Hiphop & Mental Health:

https://chhamh.org/our-mission

MaShaun Ali – Trap House Chicago

https://www.traphousechicago.us/events-1/crime-drought-no-crime-no-violence

https://www.mashaunhendricks.us/

Dion Dream Produce

https://dionschicagodream.com/

Alternative Schools Network

https://www.asnchicago.org/

Kôrêdjo-Missa Doumbia, organizer of MAAYA SIRA Animist pilgrimage

https://www.facebook.com/moussa.doumbia.3760

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Hosts: Nehez Meniooh and Giziribtah Debasah

Guests: Jahzra Shemzura and Zetanefert Zipewtu

We start our new series on healing resources with Ankhkasta Natural Healing. ANH is a non-profit organization founded by wisdom keepers of indigenous Africa. It is comprised of a network of traditional healers who approach healing from a holistic perspective based on the goal of preserving life. ANH is aimed at reintroducing humanity to traditional forms of holistic healing by providing superior alternatives to the modern world’s approach to health, while strengthening and preserving traditional healing wisdom.

In this episode, we discuss:

Starting the Elder’s Fast in the temples

Starting our series of episodes on Healing

Celebrating 25 years of Master Naba’s mission in the West with Kebtah’s sister organization, ANH

Holistic Healing from an indigenous perspective

The process of indigenous divination

Importance of protecting the sacredness of indigenous lands

Importance of maintaining or rebuilding a harmonious connection with nature

Approaching your health preventatively

The business of keeping us sick by modern medicine

Modern medicine’s lack of humility leads to experimenting on our families

Menstrual cramps are a sickness

Medicine vs Drugs

Alternative herbal treatments to COVID

Africa’s resilience to COVID 19

Links:

10 day Fasting Journal:

https://www.risingfirefly.org/shop/p/10-day-fast-journal

Ankhkasta Website:

https://anhlife.org/

COVID 19 herbal remedy:

https://anhlife.org/collections/immunity/products/ankh-revive-ahlome-set

Menstrual Cramp remedy:

https://anhlife.org/collections/reproductive-organs/products/feminine-cleanse-strong

Find out more about Divinations (Energy Readings):

https://anhlife.org/pages/healingservices

Keywords: Health and Wellness, Indigenous Medicine, Indigenous Healing, African Healing, Holistic Healing, Fasting, Health is Wealth, Ankhkasta, Kebtah, Master Naba, Menstrual Cramps, COVID alternative treatments

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Video version available on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_LQbASTx98&list=PLEMAg3o2IWd9RjUwBFwGKKjYndHi0DXUi

Hosts: Nehez Meniooh and Kasabez Maakmaah

Guest: Olévié Kouami, original member of Khepra

Khepra is the original Earth Center (Kebtah), originally founded in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Olévié Kouami was one of the original members who saw first hand the vision presented by our founder, Neb Naba Lamoussa Morodenibig and recent visited our temples in Houston and Togo. He shared his perspective on how the mission has evolved since its inception and where he see the direction is needed for the future of Meritah (Africa).

This episode is dedicated to tonton Olévié Kouami who made his transition after the filming of this episode.

In this episode, we discuss:

Master Naba in 2006 predicting the Israel Palestine conflict will continue and why

The origins of Kebtah, Khepra in Burkina Faso

The vision of a young Prophet come to fruition

The revolutionary act of honoring our Ancestors

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Watch in video on YouTube:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEMAg3o2IWd9RjUwBFwGKKjYndHi0DXUi&si=rIs60aevwTAsRYta

Hosts: Kasabez Maakmaah and Giziribtah Debasah

Guest: Mutulu Olugbala (M1) of Dead Prez

In this episode, we discuss:

The meaning of revolution

Lessons from using Hip Hop for revolutionary struggle

History organizing in Chicago to free Fred Hampton Jr.

The inspiration for "Let's Get Free" album

How "It's Bigger Than Hip Hop" became the anthem and theme song for the Chappelle Show

Dave Chappelle on tour with The Roots, Dead Prez and Black Star

Transforming anger and frustration productively

Fighting the long fight

Footage from our Kemetic New Year celebrations at the Het Aishat temple in Togo