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5 NEW DOCUMENTARIES ON THE END OF BLACK WALL STREET 100 HUNDRED YEARS AGO & 2 FICTIONAL ONES 

1. 'Tulsa Race Massacre: 100 Years Later' 

When it's premiering: 7 p.m. May 31, with an encore at 10 p.m.  Where it's airing: OETA. 

2. 'Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street' 

When it's premiering: 8 p.m. May 31.  Where it's airing: CNN.

3. Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten May 31 9 p.m. on PBS

4. Tulsa 1921: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY 10 p.m. CBS  

5. 'Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer' 

When it's premiering: 8 p.m. June 18.  Where it's airing: National Geographic.  

Tulsa Race Massacre in historical fiction 

1. 'Watchmen'  Where to see it: Streaming on HBO Max.  

2. 'Lovecraft Country'  Where to see it: Streaming on HBO Max.  

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1921 May 31 Tulsa Race Massacre begins 

Beginning on the night of May 31, 1921, thousands of white citizens in Tulsa, Oklahoma descended on the city’s predominantly Black Greenwood District, burning homes and businesses to the ground and killing hundreds of people. Long mischaracterized as a race riot, rather than mass murder, the Tulsa Race Massacre stands as one of the worst incidents of racial violence in the nation’s history. 

In the years following World War I, segregation was the law of the land, and the Ku Klux Klan was gaining ground—not only in the Jim Crow South, but across the United States. Amid that charged environment, Tulsa’s African American community was nationally recognized for its affluence. The Greenwood District, known as “Black Wall Street,” boasted more than 300 Black-owned businesses, including two movie theaters, doctors’ offices and pharmacies. 

On May 30, 1921, a young Black man named Dick Rowland entered an elevator in an office building in downtown Tulsa. At some point, Rowland was alone in the elevator with its white operator, Sarah Page. It’s unclear what happened next (one common version is that Rowland stepped on Page’s foot) but Page screamed, and Rowland fled the scene. The next day, the police arrested him. 

Rumors about the incident spread quickly through Tulsa’s white community, some members of which undoubtedly resented the prosperity of the Greenwood District. After a story published in the Tulsa Tribune on the afternoon of May 31 claimed that Rowland had attempted to rape Page, an angry white mob gathered in front of the courthouse, demanding that Rowland be handed over. 

Seeking to prevent a lynching, a group of some 75 Black men arrived on the scene that night, some of them World War I veterans who were carrying weapons. After a white man tried to disarm a Black veteran and the gun went off, chaos broke out. 

Over the next 24 hours, thousands of white rioters poured into the Greenwood District, shooting unarmed Black citizens in the streets and burning an area of some 35 city blocks, including more than 1,200 Black-owned houses, numerous businesses, a school, a hospital and a dozen churches. Historians believe as many as 300 people were killed in the rampage, though official counts at the time were much lower. 

By the time Governor James Robertson declared martial law, and National Guard troops arrived in Tulsa by noon on June 1, the Greenwood District lay in ruins. Survivors of the massacre worked to rebuild the neighborhood, but segregation remained in force in Tulsa (and the nation) and racial tensions only grew, even as the massacre and its lingering scars were left largely unacknowledged by the white community for decades to come. 

In 1997, the Oklahoma state legislature created the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 (later renamed the Tulsa Race Massacre Commission), which studied the massacre and recommended that reparations be paid to the remaining Black survivors. City officials continue to investigate the events of May 31-June 1, 1921, and to search for unmarked graves used to bury the massacre’s many victims.

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RSVP FOR VEGAN POTLUCK VIEWING & DISCUSSION OF THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY 1921 RACE MASSACRE - BLACK WALL STREET - TONITE 7 PM CALL 718-783-3465 SUN. MAY 30TH 7 PM 138 SAINT JAMES PLACE BKLYN.
 

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5 NEW DOCUMENTARIES ON THE END OF BLACK WALL STREET 100 HUNDRED YEARS AGO & 2 FICTIONAL ONES 

1. 'Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre' 

When it's premiering: 7 p.m. May 30.  Where it's airing: The History Channel.  

2. 'Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street' 

When it's premiering: 8 p.m. May 31.  Where it's airing: CNN.  

3. 'Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer' 

When it's premiering: 8 p.m. June 18.  Where it's airing: National Geographic.  

4. 'Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten' 

When it's premiering: 8 p.m. May 31.   Where it's airing: PBS (OETA in Oklahoma), pbs.org and the PBS Video app. 

5. 'Tulsa Race Massacre: 100 Years Later' 

When it's premiering: 7 p.m. May 31, with an encore at 10 p.m.  Where it's airing: OETA.  

Tulsa Race Massacre in historical fiction 

1. 'Watchmen'  Where to see it: Streaming on HBO Max.  

2. 'Lovecraft Country'  Where to see it: Streaming on HBO Max.  


VIEWING OF THE DOCUMENTARY TULSA BURNING: THE 1921 RACE MASSACRE ON MAY 31, 1921 ON THE HISTORY CHANNEL OR VIEW ONLINE AT WWW.HISTORYCHANNEL.COM

1921 May 31 Tulsa Race Massacre begins 

Beginning on the night of May 31, 1921, thousands of white citizens in Tulsa, Oklahoma descended on the city’s predominantly Black Greenwood District, burning homes and businesses to the ground and killing hundreds of people. Long mischaracterized as a race riot, rather than mass murder, the Tulsa Race Massacre stands as one of the worst incidents of racial violence in the nation’s history. 

In the years following World War I, segregation was the law of the land, and the Ku Klux Klan was gaining ground—not only in the Jim Crow South, but across the United States. Amid that charged environment, Tulsa’s African American community was nationally recognized for its affluence. The Greenwood District, known as “Black Wall Street,” boasted more than 300 Black-owned businesses, including two movie theaters, doctors’ offices and pharmacies. 

On May 30, 1921, a young Black man named Dick Rowland entered an elevator in an office building in downtown Tulsa. At some point, Rowland was alone in the elevator with its white operator, Sarah Page. It’s unclear what happened next (one common version is that Rowland stepped on Page’s foot) but Page screamed, and Rowland fled the scene. The next day, the police arrested him. 

Rumors about the incident spread quickly through Tulsa’s white community, some members of which undoubtedly resented the prosperity of the Greenwood District. After a story published in the Tulsa Tribune on the afternoon of May 31 claimed that Rowland had attempted to rape Page, an angry white mob gathered in front of the courthouse, demanding that Rowland be handed over. 

Seeking to prevent a lynching, a group of some 75 Black men arrived on the scene that night, some of them World War I veterans who were carrying weapons. After a white man tried to disarm a Black veteran and the gun went off, chaos broke out. 

Over the next 24 hours, thousands of white rioters poured into the Greenwood District, shooting unarmed Black citizens in the streets and burning an area of some 35 city blocks, including more than 1,200 Black-owned houses, numerous businesses, a school, a hospital and a dozen churches. Historians believe as many as 300 people were killed in the rampage, though official counts at the time were much lower. 

By the time Governor James Robertson declared martial law, and National Guard troops arrived in Tulsa by noon on June 1, the Greenwood District lay in ruins. Survivors of the massacre worked to rebuild the neighborhood, but segregation remained in force in Tulsa (and the nation) and racial tensions only grew, even as the massacre and its lingering scars were left largely unacknowledged by the white community for decades to come. 

In 1997, the Oklahoma state legislature created the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 (later renamed the Tulsa Race Massacre Commission), which studied the massacre and recommended that reparations be paid to the remaining Black survivors. City officials continue to investigate the events of May 31-June 1, 1921, and to search for unmarked graves used to bury the massacre’s many victims.

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VIEWING OF THE DOCUMENTARY TULSA BURNING: THE 1921 RACE MASSACRE ON MAY 31, 1921 ON THE HISTORY CHANNEL OR VIEW ONLINE AT WWW.HISTORYCHANNEL.COM

1921 May 31 Tulsa Race Massacre begins 

Beginning on the night of May 31, 1921, thousands of white citizens in Tulsa, Oklahoma descended on the city’s predominantly Black Greenwood District, burning homes and businesses to the ground and killing hundreds of people. Long mischaracterized as a race riot, rather than mass murder, the Tulsa Race Massacre stands as one of the worst incidents of racial violence in the nation’s history. 

In the years following World War I, segregation was the law of the land, and the Ku Klux Klan was gaining ground—not only in the Jim Crow South, but across the United States. Amid that charged environment, Tulsa’s African American community was nationally recognized for its affluence. The Greenwood District, known as “Black Wall Street,” boasted more than 300 Black-owned businesses, including two movie theaters, doctors’ offices and pharmacies. 

On May 30, 1921, a young Black man named Dick Rowland entered an elevator in an office building in downtown Tulsa. At some point, Rowland was alone in the elevator with its white operator, Sarah Page. It’s unclear what happened next (one common version is that Rowland stepped on Page’s foot) but Page screamed, and Rowland fled the scene. The next day, the police arrested him. 

Rumors about the incident spread quickly through Tulsa’s white community, some members of which undoubtedly resented the prosperity of the Greenwood District. After a story published in the Tulsa Tribune on the afternoon of May 31 claimed that Rowland had attempted to rape Page, an angry white mob gathered in front of the courthouse, demanding that Rowland be handed over. 

Seeking to prevent a lynching, a group of some 75 Black men arrived on the scene that night, some of them World War I veterans who were carrying weapons. After a white man tried to disarm a Black veteran and the gun went off, chaos broke out. 

Over the next 24 hours, thousands of white rioters poured into the Greenwood District, shooting unarmed Black citizens in the streets and burning an area of some 35 city blocks, including more than 1,200 Black-owned houses, numerous businesses, a school, a hospital and a dozen churches. Historians believe as many as 300 people were killed in the rampage, though official counts at the time were much lower. 

By the time Governor James Robertson declared martial law, and National Guard troops arrived in Tulsa by noon on June 1, the Greenwood District lay in ruins. Survivors of the massacre worked to rebuild the neighborhood, but segregation remained in force in Tulsa (and the nation) and racial tensions only grew, even as the massacre and its lingering scars were left largely unacknowledged by the white community for decades to come. 

In 1997, the Oklahoma state legislature created the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 (later renamed the Tulsa Race Massacre Commission), which studied the massacre and recommended that reparations be paid to the remaining Black survivors. City officials continue to investigate the events of May 31-June 1, 1921, and to search for unmarked graves used to bury the massacre’s many victims.

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The Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial & Education Center is pleased to announce details about its annual Malcolm X Day: Celebrating the Life and Legacy of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz on Wednesday, May 19, 2021 at 6:00 PM EST.

The night will feature performances and appearances by Ms. Lauryn Hill, Sonia Sanchez, Anthony Hamilton, Keyon Harrold, Maimouna Youssef, Ayanna Gregory, Alice Smith, Tobe Nwigwe, Imam Omar Suleiman, Jessica Care Moore, Sa-Roc, Phillip Agnew, and Nicole Ari Parker. Additional appearances will include Angelica Ross, Boris Kodjoe, Mara Brock Akil, Jason Reynolds, Ben Harper, Ndaba Mandela, Black Men Build, Black Women Radicals, Within Our Lifetime, Carla Cooke and many more.

This year’s virtual celebration – which will celebrate his 96th Birthday - will be streaming live on The Center’s Social Channels (Instagram: @TheShabazzCenter; Facebook: @TheShabazzCenter Twitter:@shabazzcenter)

“The legacy of Malcolm X continues to guide generations because truth endures all time. My father was an exemplar of morality, and was unwavering in his commitment to bringing about the human rights of all people across the globe,” said Shabazz Center Co-Chair Ilyasah Shabazz. “In celebrating Malcolm’s 96th birthday on May 19th, we will honor the best in ourselves, which continues to animate our calls for justice worldwide. I am grateful to carry forth the legacy of my father and mother, Dr. Betty Shabazz, as the Co-Chairperson of The Shabazz Center, a memorial, cultural, and educational institution that facilitates thought exchange around racial equity and building the capacity of our social movements.”

The Shabazz Center facilitates thought exchange around racial equity, justice, and cultural production in the spirit of Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz. Through both global and local outreach, educational and cultural programming, and engagement with the African Diaspora, The Shabazz Center is a generative, action-oriented community organization, committed to growing social movements that empower and prepare people for leadership in civil society.

The Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial & Education Center Co-Chairs include Ilyasah Shabazz and Julio Peterson. The Board of Trustees include Phillip Agnew, Curtis Archer, Lumumba Bandele, Larry S. Blackmon, S. Ken Jones, Esq., Akemi Kochiyama, Kamal Koraitem, Jodie Patterson and Dr. Robyn C. Spencer. The Shabazz Center’s Director of Institutional Advancement is Najha Zigbi-Johnson.


 

MALCOLM X BIRTHDAY LIVESTREAM CELEBRATION TODAY AT 6:00 PM

annual Malcolm X Day: Celebrating the Life and Legacy of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz on Wednesday, May 19, 2021 at 6:00 PM EST.
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The Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial & Education Center is pleased to announce details about its annual Malcolm X Day: Celebrating the Life and Legacy of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz on Wednesday, May 19, 2021 at 6:00 PM EST.

The night will feature performances and appearances by Ms. Lauryn Hill, Sonia Sanchez, Anthony Hamilton, Keyon Harrold, Maimouna Youssef, Ayanna Gregory, Alice Smith, Tobe Nwigwe, Imam Omar Suleiman, Jessica Care Moore, Sa-Roc, Phillip Agnew, and Nicole Ari Parker. Additional appearances will include Angelica Ross, Boris Kodjoe, Mara Brock Akil, Jason Reynolds, Ben Harper, Ndaba Mandela, Black Men Build, Black Women Radicals, Within Our Lifetime, Carla Cooke and many more.

This year’s virtual celebration – which will celebrate his 96th Birthday - will be streaming live on The Center’s Social Channels (Instagram: @TheShabazzCenter; Facebook: @TheShabazzCenter Twitter:@shabazzcenter)

“The legacy of Malcolm X continues to guide generations because truth endures all time. My father was an exemplar of morality, and was unwavering in his commitment to bringing about the human rights of all people across the globe,” said Shabazz Center Co-Chair Ilyasah Shabazz. “In celebrating Malcolm’s 96th birthday on May 19th, we will honor the best in ourselves, which continues to animate our calls for justice worldwide. I am grateful to carry forth the legacy of my father and mother, Dr. Betty Shabazz, as the Co-Chairperson of The Shabazz Center, a memorial, cultural, and educational institution that facilitates thought exchange around racial equity and building the capacity of our social movements.”

The Shabazz Center facilitates thought exchange around racial equity, justice, and cultural production in the spirit of Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz. Through both global and local outreach, educational and cultural programming, and engagement with the African Diaspora, The Shabazz Center is a generative, action-oriented community organization, committed to growing social movements that empower and prepare people for leadership in civil society.

The Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial & Education Center Co-Chairs include Ilyasah Shabazz and Julio Peterson. The Board of Trustees include Phillip Agnew, Curtis Archer, Lumumba Bandele, Larry S. Blackmon, S. Ken Jones, Esq., Akemi Kochiyama, Kamal Koraitem, Jodie Patterson and Dr. Robyn C. Spencer. The Shabazz Center’s Director of Institutional Advancement is Najha Zigbi-Johnson.

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Malcolm X 

Malcolm X in March 1964 

Malcolm X in March 1964 

Born      Malcolm Little 

May 19, 1925 

Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. 

Died      February 21, 1965 (aged 39) 

New York City, U.S. 

Cause of death Assassination (gunshot wounds) 

Resting place     Ferncliff Cemetery 

Other names     el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (Arabic: ٱلْحَاجّ مَالِك ٱلشَّبَازّ‎, romanized: al-Ḥājj Mālik ash-Shabāzz) 

Occupation         Minister, activist 

Organization       

Nation of Islam, Muslim Mosque, Inc., Organization of Afro-American Unity 

Movement          

Black nationalism Pan-Africanism 

Spouse(s)            Betty Shabazz ​(m. 1958)​ 

Children              6 (including Attallah, Qubilah, and Ilyasah) 

Relatives             Louise Helen Norton Little (mother) 

Malcolm Shabazz (grandson)[1] 

Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965) was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. He is best known for his time spent as a vocal spokesman for the Nation of Islam. 

Malcolm spent his adolescence living in a series of foster homes or with relatives after his father's death and his mother's hospitalization. He joined the Nation of Islam, adopted the name Malcolm X (to symbolize his unknown African ancestral surname), and quickly became one of the organization's most influential leaders in 1952. Malcolm X then served as the public face of the organization for a dozen years, where he advocated for Black empowerment, Black supremacy, and the separation of black and white Americans, and publicly criticized the mainstream civil rights movement for its emphasis on nonviolence and racial integration.[2][3] Malcolm X also expressed pride in some of the Nation's social welfare achievements, namely its free drug rehabilitation program. Throughout his life, beginning in the 1950s, Malcolm X endured surveillance from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). 

In the 1960s, He subsequently embraced Sunni Islam and the civil rights movement after completing the Hajj to Mecca, and became known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz.[A] After a brief period of travel across Africa, he founded the Islamic Muslim Mosque, Inc. (MMI) and the Pan-African Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU). 1964 On February 21, 1965, he was assassinated in New York City. Three Nation members were charged with the murder and given indeterminate life sentences. Speculation about the assassination and whether it was conceived or aided by leading or additional members of the Nation, or with law enforcement agencies, have persisted for decades after the shooting. 

Malcolm X is also a widely celebrated figure within African-American and Muslim American communities for his pursuit of racial justice. He was posthumously honored with Malcolm X Day, on which he is commemorated in various cities across the United States. Hundreds of streets and schools in the U.S. have been renamed in his honor, while the Audubon Ballroom, the site of his assassination, was partly redeveloped in 2005 to accommodate the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center.
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Aristotle: Means do not justify ends. Strive for the middle ground, the "golden mean."  

Christianity: Treat people with equal respect and dignity, "love your neighbor as yourself."  

Immanuel Kant: "Categorical imperative." People should not be treated as means to an end. Duty to principle no matter what the consequences may be.  

Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill:  "Utilitarianism," greatest good for greatest number. Minimize harm as much as possible. What's important is the result.  

( Egoism: "greatest good for me." Is this an ethical philosophy?)  

John Rawls: "Original position." All people must be treated equally, no matter what their age, sex, race, wealth, or role in society may be, the "veil of ignorance." Must have morally defensible reason to discriminate.  

W.D. Ross:  "Prima facie" ("On first appearance") duties. Claims that govern your ability to make a decision. These claims arise from:  

Previous acts of one's own. If you make a promise, you must keep it. If you harm someone, you must rectify it. 

Previous acts of others. If someone does something for you, you must show gratitude. 

Unwarranted distribution of rewards or pleasure. If someone does something   that does not deserve rewards, the duty of justice requires you to prevent this.  

Duty to other human beings who could better their condition with your help, that is, beneficence. If you can do something to help others, you have the duty to do so.  

Duty of not harming others. The Hippocratic oath: "First, do no harm."
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Socrates: Virtue through careful reflection.

Plato:  "The good" as a standard for behavior discovered above all other.

Aristotle: Means do not justify ends. Strive for the middle ground, the "golden mean."

Christianity: Treat people with equal respect and dignity, "love your neighbor as yourself."

Immanuel Kant: "Categorical imperative." People should not be treated as means to an end. Duty to principle no matter what the consequences may be.

Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill:  "Utilitarianism," greatest good for greatest number. Minimize harm as much as possible. What's important is the result.

( Egoism: "greatest good for me." Is this an ethical philosophy?)

John Rawls: "Original position." All people must be treated equally, no matter what their age, sex, race, wealth, or role in society may be, the "veil of ignorance." Must have morally defensible reason to discriminate.

W.D. Ross:  "Prima facie" ("On first appearance") duties. Claims that govern your ability to make a decision. These claims arise from:

Previous acts of one's own. If you make a promise, you must keep it. If you harm someone, you must rectify it.

Previous acts of others. If someone does something for you, you must show gratitude.

Unwarranted distribution of rewards or pleasure. If someone does something   that does not deserve rewards, the duty of justice requires you to prevent this.

Duty to other human beings who could better their condition with your help, that is, beneficence. If you can do something to help others, you have the duty to do so.

Duty of not harming others. The Hippocratic oath: "First, do no harm."

 

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JOIN NADO AFRODANCER AND JAMMERSGH AS THEY INSTRUCT A DANCE CLASS ON MAY 16. PERFORMANCE BY BATALA NEW YORK


COME SHOP + DANCE + AND EAT

4PM - DANCE CLASS BY NADO AFRODANCER

5PM - DANCE CLASS BY JAMMERSGH

COME SUPPORT ARTS AND CULTURE

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As part of our ongoing campaign to boost local economy and support local businesses - Join us on May 16 and every Sunday till the end of Summer.

Food - Delicious African Orchards, Chef Ali (from Kenya) African hot sauce, Chef Kele (Food Justice Advocate)

Fashion/Apparel/Decor - Eldior Sodeck, Dafina Boutique, Worku Tezera, Locnificent, Emowa Socks , Fa African Boutik, The BrownstoneWoman , Afrayiti

Wellness/Beauty - Agni NY, Madawes Hair Products, Sisters Are Great,

Accesories/Jewelry/ - MP Dazzling Inspirations, Simitre

Dance Class - Afro Dance class session by Nado Afrodancer and

Performance - Batala NEW YORK (New York's all women AfroBrazilian samba reggae band)


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African dance class by Nado the Dancer . Come experience the the rhythm and joy of African dance.


LETS DANCE!!!!! JAMMERSGH
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WHERE - OUTDOOR EVENT IN BROOKLYN - ON TOMPKINS BETWEEN PUTNAM AND MADISON - (for direction add 363 Tompkins Ave in your navigation)with social distancing rules enforced.

- Market Place

- DJs and Live Performances

- Art Exhibit

- Food and Drinks

- Chef competition

SHOP + EAT + CONNECT WITH COMMUNITY - Local vendors & entrepreneurs across food, fashion, self-care, wellness, beauty design and more.

Events is brought to you in collaboration with TAMA , Bridgestreet Development Corporation and various businesses along Tompkins avenue in Brooklyn.

GET $2 OFF EVERY TRANSACTION $10 AND UP FROM EVERY VENDOR UP TO $40 OFF FROM SOME VENDORS

Another opportunity to shop local, support culture and small businesses

Food Tastings, Popup Market, DJ Sets with Afrobeats and Global Sounds,


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Enjoy mouth-watering, great dishes from across the Diaspora
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TUES MAY 25 7 PM - 9:30 PM OPEN MIC NIGHT 214 STAR ST BKLYN 

FRI. MAY 28 11 AM - 6 PM FULTON MALL METROTECH FAIR BKLYN LAWRENCE ST BETWEEN FULTON ST AND WILLOUGHBY AVE BKLYN 

SAT. MAY 29 12 PM - 10 PM CARIBBEAN VIBES BOTTOMLESS BRUNCH & DAY PARTY 290 MESEROLE ST BKLYN

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EVERY THURSDAY 5 PM - 1 AM AFROHOUSE MUSIC 167 GRAHAM AVE BKLYN 

EVERY THURSDAY 4 PM - 11 PM JIMMY'S 38 NYC 156 W 38TH ST NYC 

WED. MAY 12 5:30 PM STRIKE FORCE OUTDOOR PERFORMANCE 34TH ST HERALD SQUARE PLAZA NYC  

SAT. MAY 15 12 PM - 6 PM HAITIAN AMERICAN HERITAGE WEEK & FLAG DAY CELEBRATION 70 E 37TH ST BKLYN 

SUN. MAY 16 11 AM - 6 PM A TASTE OF AFRICA SQUARE - AN OUTDOOR EVENT ON TOMPKINS BETWEEN PUTNAM & MADISON AVE BKLYN 

SUN. MAY 16 2 PM - 4 PM BROOKLYN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OUTDOORS IN FRONT OF BROOKLYN MUSEUM 200 EASTERN PARKWAY BKLYN 

SAT. MAY 22 3 PM - 3 AM ROOTSIE'S 50TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION 1153 E 92 ST BKLYN 

SAT. MAY 22 5 PM - MIDNITE HOUSE MUSIC PARTY 290 MESEROLE ST BKLYN 

SUN. MAY 23 4 PM - 7 PM BROWN SUGAR COMEDY SHOW & DAY PARTY 988 DECATUR ST BKLYN 

TUES MAY 25 7 PM - 9:30 PM OPEN MIC NIGHT 214 STAR ST BKLYN 

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As Africa’s earliest formation of a Supreme Being, the “Great Mother was successively called Goddess Net”; “Universal Mother”; “Heavenly Mother”; and “Divine Mother.” Each term indicated Her ability to assume Metaphorical roles which matched a piece of a Spiritual Element already a birth gift within each human. Every role, a Symbol, conveys realizations of, and ideas, about the infinite as well as Standards/Filters/Guides for certain living practices. Each Symbol’s ‘payload’ is able to awaken one's consciousness to a new awareness of the inner meaning of life and reality itself–an awareness penetrating to ones deepest inner Self where contacts are made with other creatures, creations, and God. For example, the role of the Goddess Ma’at represents Mythical Truths observable by the people for what is “Right” living. Mythical Truths refer to the existence and ways of a Spiritual entity’s inferred “what it does” and its various “how it appears” forms. Ma’at’s inferred Supernatural origin out of God’s Infinite Mind, said Tehuti (?12,500 BC), was as a finite Cosmic Womb consisting of the Cosmic Body of God–a Womb called the Subjective Realm–a Womb containing the Celestial Ocean of Nun (“kaos” or Spiritual Chaos). This Great Mother’s Primordial Ocean of Uterine Blood–the Generative Womb of All–represents the Cosmic Wholism Circle–a Circle composed of the Spiritual Elements in a state of “Potential Possibilities” for everything needed in the Cosmos. But it is also a state of “No Thing” (called “Nothingness”–“Void”). These Spiritual Elements, orchestrated by the Cosmic Intelligence, are ever-ready to become any of God’s creatures (e.g. humans) and creations. The Spiritual Energy of this Cosmic Organism has God’s vibration rates–the highest of all rates–rates impressed on every human newborn’s Soul so it can last ‘forever.’ 

The Shapes/Patterns of each Spiritual Elements’ impression are what enables one to always discover, by looking within ones Soul (i.e. Intuit), what is Spiritually “Right”. To serve as a practical source for illustrating “Right” living, Very Ancient African Groits (storytellers) used Metaphorical Symbols because they disregard the limitations and boundaries of human thought in order to impart ideas of the indescribable. Spiritual Metaphors are tools to discover alternate ways to the “What it is” of a thing–i.e. its true Knowledge as well as to the “That it is” (Primary Qualities). One of those Symbolic Messages is that out of the rhythm of “The Great Mother’s Womb” come three basic things: First, a Moral Order where things are right when there is harmony; and something is wrong when there is disharmony. Second, her Womb Rhythm indicates Aesthetic Order that accounts for Beauty and any interference with that Order makes for “Ugly.” Third, Messages from her Womb Rhythm are recognized Mythic Truths. All judgments in conformity with her Womb Rhythm are within the realm of the Spiritual Elements–and therefore provide Certainty everyone can rely on. Whatever has Certainty is Metaphysical Knowledge. Anything outside Certainty and Physical Knowledge (dealing with mathematically proven “Facts”), no matter how tiny the flaw, is a false representation–e.g. Information. In the USA “schooling” system–and having decades of education and training after college– we was never taught Metaphysical Knowledge! Since all the worlds, both in life and of death, had their existence within “The Great Mother’s Womb,” and since living things could only be made by females, beginning African Mythology spoke of a “Creatress” rather than a “Creator.” From that time onward they deemed the most prominent divinities to be female, including the Supreme Being. So pervasive and persisting was this concept that Ancient Egyptians traced their descent through mothers, calling themselves “X, born of the Lady Y,” omitting their father’s name. Egyptian queens were more respected than kings. Pharaohs ruled by matrilineal succession and styled themselves “Rulers from the Womb.” Today, all of this elevating/equating of females to males is anti-European. 

Outside Africa, the African Great Mother and her Spirituality influence were worshipped world-wide–everywhere antedating and predominating over any of their unique concepts of a God. In particular, “The Great Mother” of Africa was said to represent a Supernatural Metaphysical Symbol–the arch personification of the power of Space, Time, and Matter–within whose bounds all beings arise and die. People of all cultures believed She was the Substance of their bodies–a Configurator of their lives and thoughts–a Receiver of their dead. Everything having form or name within Her womb–whether personified as good/evil, merciful/wrathful–was Her child. In Europe, She was thought to be the sole omnipotent deity. In the ancient Roman world before Christ, the African Great Mother had expressed Itself in the popular cults of Africa’s Auset (Isis) and Ausar (Osiris)–and statues of them can be seen in basements of European cathedrals to this day. In Rome, these cults had numerous followers in every strata of society–from the common man to the emperor. Roman tombs of the rich and noble were carved with the symbols of Ausar (Osiris), son of the Great Mother. The Roman goddess Diana was the same as the Greek Artemis–and both were simply imitations of the Black African goddess Bast. And all were painted black. Africans painted the goddess Bast black because the original Madonna and Son were their very own black skinned Auset (Isis) and her Black son Heru (Horus). Walker (Women’s Encyclopedia p233) states: “Roman towns all over Europe habitually called the local mother goddess Diana (who was painted black), as later Christian towns were to call her Madonna.” The cult of the European Virgin Mary is thought to have sprung from the cult of Diana. In 431 AD, at the Council of Ephesus, because of her “black skin”–the Great Mother African Isis was replaced with the Supernatural (i.e. man-made) created Virgin Mary, a “white skin” European. More importantly, Europeans converted God into a Man–therefore into an idol–a statement documented in the book: Ancient African Bible Messages before discovering the European Carl Jung said it in “Man and his Symbols” (p224). 

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12 Benefits of a Raw Vegan Diet

Improve your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health.

As our understanding of our food and its health, environmental, social, and political implications increases, more of us are turning to plant-based lifestyles. Within this realm, however, there are many ways in which we can express a plant-based lifestyle. One of these is a raw vegan dietary approach.

Origins of Raw Veganism

What are the origins of raw veganism? That depends on who you ask. Some people are under the impression that this is just another wild, new fad diet. Others will focus on the roots of raw veganism within the last few centuries, while others yet will look towards prominent people of ancient times who have some reference to raw veganism as part of their life. However, if we allow ourselves to think consciously about this for a moment, trying to put aside our conditioned beliefs about food, diets, and history, we can perhaps begin to appreciate a whole other origin.

Many experts and laypeople alike who are followers or proponents of this movement understand that raw veganism goes all the way back to our earliest human beginnings. Think about it: what animal do you know that cooks its food? Secondly, what food source is easier to obtain in nature by humans without any weapons: plant or animal food?

If we look beyond our advanced and convenience-packed modern lives for a moment and consider what would happen if we were dropped in the middle of a remote land without anything, it becomes much easier to appreciate the natural and obvious approach of a raw vegan diet. It is only when we started making tools and using fire that we moved towards the consumption of animal foods and cooked foods. Taking these steps may have helped our ancestors get more calories from their food to combat periods of scarcity, and improve food safety, specifically when dealing with animal flesh. Unfortunately in modern times, most have accepted this latter approach to eating as the “normal and obvious”, shunning almost anything outside of that realm. Let’s also make a note here of the simple, yet the very important, fact that natural is not equivalent in meaning to normal. The former is based on the laws of nature, while the latter is based on mass acceptance at any given time.

Therefore, what may seem as a fanatical dietary approach to some, isn’t actually as crazy or unconventional as it may at first appear. And this brings us to the present time.

Why Choose Raw Veganism

If we look at the current trends, the results are clear: veganism is on the rise, and quite sharply at that, integrating itself amidst the mainstream. The reasons why increasing numbers of people today are showing an interest in veganism and following this path, are many. Each person will have their own unique motivation for making this choice. However, it is safe to say that in all cases some combination of health, environmental, social, political, and spiritual reasons is behind the decision.

As I teach via my other platforms, our human consciousness is awakening and evolving. We are becoming increasingly aware of the unnecessary and unjust suffering that is caused to the animals due to our food choices. We are learning about the unspeakable inhumane and torturous acts that are taking place every single day impacting the lives of hundreds of billions of animals. And when we learn that not only is there no need for us as humans to consume any animal products (dairy, eggs, or meat), but that we are actually better—physically, mentally, emotionally—for it, the choice becomes obvious.

So what about raw veganism? The reasons for choosing this path share a common foundation, as all that I have shared above. However, with raw veganism, participants take it a step further by not heat-treating (beyond the point of life) any of their food. This means that foods are eaten fully raw, soaked, sprouted, dehydrated (at low temperatures), or gently warmed up.

Whether for a temporary, long-term, or lifetime period, raw veganism is appealing to an increasing number of people as it really brings us to our most natural roots: to eat living, unadulterated plant foods. And in a world where most food is not worthy of having the word food associated with it, and where corporate interests and diet fads reign more supreme than the health of people and the Earth, it is not hard to see why some wish to strip it all away and connect with something of the most integral purity.

Therefore let’s explore 12 benefits that can result from raw veganism and further attract people to this way of eating and living.

1. Makes You More Health Conscious

It is next to impossible to be a raw vegan and not be health-conscious in some meaningful way. In fact, a raw vegan dietary approach tends to make people the most aware, conscious, and mindful about their food choices, compared to any other dietary approach. Those who follow this approach are not only intentional about what food they are eating but typically about the source of that food and its quality as well.

Food is meant to nourish and keep us healthy, and raw veganism helps us learn just how our food can do this in the most optimal ways. Raw veganism allows us to explore the highest potential of nutrient integrity and density of food, which naturally translates to making the healthiest choices possible, especially given today’s challenges when it comes to food.

People who are raw vegan aren’t only more conscientious about their food but tend to adopt overall, healthier lifestyle habits, and be more mindful of all of their lifestyle choices, and how any of these choices impact the health of our Earth.

2. Helps You Avoid Processed Food

Unlike regular veganism, raw veganism adheres and refers most specifically to whole food and clean eating. A person who is just vegan can easily eat lots of processed and unhealthy foods, but if you are raw vegan, then nearly all, if not all, of the foods you eat, will typically be whole, real, unrefined, and unprocessed. All processed foods involve some thermal treatment during their processing, like high-heat cooking, roasting, pasteurization, etc. All of this processing strips the food of so much of its beneficial attributes while introducing many harmful properties. So many nutrients are destroyed or denatured, while health-destroying compounds, like acrylamide, heterocyclic amines, and advanced glycation end products - AGEs are often created in the process. (This all applies to home-cooking of foods at high temperatures or for prolonged periods of time as well.)

And unfortunately most processed foods today are made up of ingredients that are themselves refined, processed, or synthetic, leading to a final product that is far removed from being any kind of nourishing or healthful substance. Therefore, a raw vegan approach helps a person automatically (and easily) avoid the thousands of unnatural additives that are found in our “food” today, effectively decreasing the stress and toxic load on the body. These include refined sugars and oils, genetically modified organisms, colors and flavors, synthetic vitamins and minerals, preservatives and other food additives, which are all linked to health problems in numerous ways.

3. Offers the Highest Nutrient Density

When veganism is done via whole, real plant foods, it offers us the highest nutrient density and the lowest amount of problems, as related to our food. There is ample research showing how overall plant-based diets are the most healing and protective. This can be further increased by raw veganism, given the overall negative attributes of heavily heat-treated food.

Most plant foods are the highest in nutrients and the lowest in calories. These foods are also the richest in heat-sensitive nutrients, though really all nutrients are impacted by heat in one way or another. This includes carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and phytonutrients. (Low heat for short time = least destructive; high heat for a long time = most destructive.)

Finally, if raw plant foods are eaten in their whole forms, and come from organic sources, as well as from fresh and/or local sources, we also get the benefit of ingesting the highest quality of food possible! This significantly increases health benefits and decreases health risks. Fresh foods have more nutrient density than foods that have been picked or stored for long periods of time, and/or include chemical pesticides, drugs, hormones, and biologically deviant species, like GMOs.

4. Offers a Diet Naturally High in Fruits and Vegetables

The diets of raw vegans have a high composition of fruits and vegetables, which are the most healing, preventative, protective, and valuable foods on Earth. All plant foods provide lots of wholesome vitamins and minerals, as well as phytonutrients and some antioxidants, but fruits and vegetables specifically excel in all of these areas. In addition, they are loaded with fiber and naturally ultra-low in sodium and fat.

It will come as no surprise to hear that most Americans do not eat enough fruits and vegetables, and the negative health and weight results are highly reflective of this dietary deficiency. To date, numerous studies have proven what most health-conscious individuals already know and don’t need a study to prove: fruits and vegetables are essential key players in creating optimal health, weight, and longevity.

Diets high in fruits and vegetables are most beneficial for healing and protecting us from pretty much every diseased condition, including cancers, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis, infections, as well as cognitive and age-related degenerative diseases. They also support optimal mental and emotional health and wellbeing.

5. Offers a Diet Naturally High in Fiber

Being solely based on plant foods, the diets of raw vegans are exceptionally high in fiber, which has numerous health and healing attributes. Fiber provides bulk; this helps to optimize satiety and intestinal health. It keeps our intestines clean by collecting, moving, and removing waste along in a timely manner. This, in turn, keeps our elimination regular, which is one of the most important detoxification mechanisms of our body. (Those who eat natural, high-fiber diets typically have healthy bowel movements more than once each day.)

Fiber also acts as a prebiotic, optimizing the healthy and beneficial microflora (microbes) of our intestines. While most people are preoccupied with probiotics, not enough understand the value and importance of prebiotics. We can keep putting in supplemental probiotics religiously, but if our intestines do not provide a hospitable environment for them, they are of little use and benefit to us. This is where prebiotics, via fiber-rich, whole plant foods excel again.

The benefits of diets high in fiber include optimal blood sugar, cholesterol, and blood pressure regulation, decreased risk of colon cancer and protection from cancer, decreased risk of heart disease, and increased longevity. Fiber also helps us lose weight effectively, and sustainably maintain a healthy weight for our body.

6. Offers the Most Alkalizing Diet

The acid-alkaline balance is one of the most vital components for health and wellbeing, yet it is still one of the least emphasized and appreciated health topics. In a nutshell, our body’s overall biochemistry is slightly alkaline (basic), with reference to the blood. Your blood must stay in a tightly controlled pH range of roughly 7.4 for you to be healthy, and stay alive. Everything that enters the blood influences the blood pH, though our body will do everything in its power to keep that blood pH slightly alkaline.

After digestion, nutrients and other end-products of digestion enter the blood to be transported to cells and tissues. Wastes from these cells and tissues also enter the blood to be transported out for elimination. As long as the right things come in and the wrong things come out, everything works smoothly; the health of our blood is a direct indicator of the health of our body. Unfortunately the Standard American Diet (SAD), high in refined carbohydrates, animal products, and oils, and low in fruits and vegetables is highly acidifying. Diet-induced acidosis is considered in holistic medicine, and increasingly so in conventional medicine, as a major contributing factor to all states of disease.

So what are the most alkalizing foods? Fruits and vegetables. Diets high in fruits and vegetables, as is the foundation for raw vegan diets, are therefore the most alkalizing. Not only do they contain the most of the “right foods” but they also contain the least or none of the “wrong foods” — the most acidic foods: animal protein and refined carbohydrates. As I share in my book Healing & Prevention Through Nutrition, a proper acid-alkaline balance is associated with a decreased risk of and strongest protection against lifestyle diseases like cancer, heart disease, and osteoporosis. It is essential for optimal immune function, decreasing or altogether eliminating our susceptibility to infections, and optimal weight maintenance.

7. Offers Most Support for Beneficial Enzymes

Living bodies and living foods contain enzymes; cells require enzymes to survive and function. Enzymes are biological catalysts, which help to bring about and increase the speed of essential reactions. Even though enzymes are known to withstand the reactions they catalyze, they can become damaged, destroyed, and depleted. Over time, poor diets, which are high in processed and animal food, stress, smoking, and similar negative lifestyle factors catch up to us, and one of the most common results is poor digestion and systemic inflammation. The result is sometimes referred to as enzyme exhaustion, which results in poor health, increased aging and/or decreased longevity.

So how can the raw vegan diet benefit us in this regard? Like most other biological compounds, enzymes are sensitive to various conditions, including temperature and pH. To maintain the integrity of enzymes, temperatures should be kept below 48C/118F. Of course, typical cooking is done at temperatures higher than this. (For reference, the temperature of boiling water is 100C/212F, and baking is done above temperatures of 150C/300F.) This means the destruction of not only the enzymes found in our living plant foods, but as mentioned earlier, a denaturation of most (if not all) nutrients to some degree. In his book Enzyme Nutrition, leading enzyme researcher, the late Dr. Edward Howell also explains the mechanism by which raw foods decrease the exhaustive load on our body’s enzymes, by essentially coming in with their own “tools” to help the digestion process.

The result of raw versus cooked foods appears to be two-fold: Raw foods create the least stress for our body and most support (especially where enzymes are concerned), whereas highly cooked foods create the most stress and the least support for our body. The benefits of enzyme-supportive diets—ones that are high in natural enzymes in food, and low in factors that cause stress or damage to enzymes, are wide-ranging. They include improved digestion and sustained proper digestion as we age, decreased inflammation and thus a decreased risk of common lifestyle diseases, as well as optimal longevity.

8. Offers Most Support for Life Energy

Amongst all diets, the diets of raw vegans provide the highest amount of life energy. [Please note that life energy from food is not the same as caloric energy.] All living beings contain life energy — you, me, other animals, plants, etc. This is our essence, the foundation of life, and is known as “Chi”, “Qi”, “life force”, or “prana”. Life energy is literally the key to life and not something that needs to be proved but simply experienced. Holistically-oriented disciplines like Traditional Chinese Medicine understand its importance, our reductionist science, unfortunately, does not. We are born with abundant life energy and as we go through life that energy fluctuates, increasing or decreasing, depending on our lifestyle choices. When life energy becomes too depleted or blocked, from a metaphysical stance, this is what creates fatigue, ill-feeling or disease.

Everything in our life has an impact on our life energy—it will either enhance, deplete, or provide a neutral effect on it. The same goes for food, which is one of the biggest reasons why those who are spiritually-attuned often turn towards a raw vegan diet, as raw vegan food is “living food” and has the highest potential of life energy. When an animal is killed, its life energy is destroyed, and so eating meat for example by its very nature is eating “dead food”. On the other hand, when plants are picked for food, they are still alive and contain life energy. As they age (in the store or on the counter), or are processed, or cooked, their life energy begins to diminish or becomes destroyed, to the point that any plant food that has been heavily cooked or processed is also considered “dead” food. Kirlian photography can exemplify some of this visually, as it can show the bio-energetic field of the food.

The practical consequences of this are that most raw vegans benefit from excellent energy, mental clarity, and vitality levels, as compared to the majority of the public, who are lethargic and plagued with fatigue, mental fog, and disease. Raw vegan diets are simply put highly energizing—high-frequency diets. However, life energy also influences our emotional, mental, and spiritual health, as well as longevity, creativity, and overall wellbeing. This is just another reason why it is common to experience profound surges in these areas as a raw vegan.

Speaking of energy, but now of the caloric kind, eating lower on the food chain also provides more energy and wastes less energy for us and the ecosystem. Food is also “lighter” and easier on the body, leaving us energized, rather than sluggish after meals.

9. Increases Consumption of the Optimal Form of Foods

As we establish a fresh relationship with our food, a natural consequence and benefit of the raw vegan path is to consume food in its most optimal form. For fruits and vegetables, this is easy, as they can easily be consumed just as they are. For nuts, seeds, grains, and beans, it is a little different.

Nuts, seeds, grains, and beans are all botanical seeds. As such, they have two main phases to their lifecycle: a dry, dormant one and a wet, living one. The differentiating factor is the presence or absence of water. As we all know, water is essential for life, and it serves as the main catalyst to bring dry, dormant seeds into the living phase. As such, the biochemical makeup of the seed changes. Upon soaking and/or sprouting the seed’s nutrient inhibitors are neutralized/diminished, while its various life-giving processes and nutrients are activated and increased. This process begins the growth of new life, activating enzymes, higher nutrient-density, and life energy. As you can imagine, this translates to even more benefits of these foods for us, than if they are just eaten in their dry or cooked forms.

10. Avoids Problems Associated with Animal Foods

All vegans, raw or not, avoid problems related to animal foods, including meat/seafood, dairy, and eggs, regardless of how they are farmed or sourced. The problems associated with these foods go above and beyond our health and the environment. Although it is great that more emphasis is placed today on how destructive animal foods are to our personal health and that of the Earth, many people are completely unaware of the more subtle, yet all-encompassing, problems related to these foods. These include mental, emotional, social, and spiritual.

To what degree any of us is ready or willing to explore each of the above mentioned four areas to understand the impacts of animal foods on each of them, will be a personal choice. However, as we begin to expand our mind and evolve spiritually, and understand that everything is energy, we begin to understand the immensity of our food choices. It is bad enough that animal flesh and secretions contain the health problems of the animals themselves, mainly associated with their unnatural food, foraging, and lifestyles, but they also contain the energies of stress, fear, and victimhood. This brings a whole new meaning to the statement “you are what you eat”. However, the brutal treatment and killing of animals, as well as the consumption of flesh has also been linked to more aggressive and violent tendencies. Though don’t hold your breath for a study to prove this, at least not anytime soon. Regardless, there is no doubt that our mental health is linked to the quality of our diet, which brings us a big step closer to understanding the meat and violent behavior connection. Though to become aware of this in its fullest scope, it is fundamental to understand the energetic and interconnected nature of all life.

Perhaps the most comprehensive exploration of this subject comes from Dr. Will Tuttle. In his book, World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony, he does an excellent overview of the history, research, and societal implications that arise from the herding and consumption of animals on our mental, emotional, social, and spiritual wellbeing.

11. Supports Optimal Digestion for Optimal Longevity

Digestion is a taxing process and the more we eat, and the worse we eat, the more digestive problems and other health problems we tend to encounter. For example: the harder the foods are to digest (i.e. meat), or the more undesirable qualities they bring with them (i.e. processed food), the more we literally “wear” out our body. However as I mentioned in earlier parts of this article, cooked foods add in their own slew of problems that can interfere with optimal health, and thus longevity.

Raw vegan diets provide the body the food in its most natural form. And although some experts or laypeople alike argue that cooked food is easier to digest, which in some ways it is, I feel it is rather naive for us to think that our body wasn’t designed to best handle food in its raw and natural form. The fact that we have conditioned ourselves into cooked foods, and today many people whose diets are based on cooked foods have a hard time digesting raw foods is a whole other story. Unhealthy gut flora, backed up intestines, sluggish or stressed out organs, chronic acidity, chronic dehydration, chronic infections, and the like, are just a few of the areas that can interfere with optimal digestion.

Additionally, the diets of raw vegans tend to be naturally lower in calories, since raw vegan food is predominantly rich in nutrients, not calories. This connects us back to the outstanding health benefits of nutrient density we talked about above. People, therefore, tend to eat less, as the body is getting all that it needs more efficiently, and this translates to greater longevity benefits.

12. Financial Benefits

In addition to all of the above health and nutrition benefits, a raw vegan approach also offers some outstanding economical benefits. At first glance, people often rate the raw vegan diet as more expensive. But the question we need to ask ourselves is, compared to what? If comparing it to a diet based on highly processed food, especially refined carbohydrates and fast foods (think Kraft dinner, burgers, fries, soda, and chips), then yes it will be more expensive, but that really isn’t a fair comparison as the other stuff isn’t even real food. On the other hand, we compare raw veganism to a whole-food omnivore diet, then it can easily come out cheaper. An average meal can easily be $3 (or less) per adult, as I have discovered daily in my life over the past several years.

What else we need to take into consideration here is that both cooked vegan and omnivore diets require just that: cooking. Consider the number of hours each household may spend on running the stovetop, oven, toaster, toaster oven, grill or barbecue, and similar appliances, and how this stacks up the financial costs of such diets. We can also add in the variety of cookware required and how much the mentioned appliances add up to costing us on their own. Factor in the lower environmental and health costs associated with raw vegan diets and the benefits just keep stacking up.

The economic benefits, however, are just one part of this equation. From a practical perspective, raw vegan meal preparation can also be one of the easiest, quickest, and simplest. Of course, this will all depend on us—our personal approach, motivation, ambition, education, creativity, and habits, as to whether we get the most or the least benefits from the raw vegan diet.

Is Raw Veganism Right For You?

Despite these, and many other, wonderful benefits it goes without saying that raw veganism is not for everyone, at least not yet. Unfortunately, all too many of us have a very unhealthy relationship with food today, and it is not guaranteed to get any better by going raw vegan. This reality stems from a much deeper problem in our modern society. This being that we are severely disconnected from our own body and mind, and of course our food. All too many people are fanatical in their behaviors and heavily influenced by external sources (i.e. friends, family, media, etc.). One headline of something like “Raw veganism almost killed me” and all of a sudden one may start feeling like everything wrong in their own life is due to their raw vegan approach, or completely dismiss what can be a most beneficial path. Due to someone’s uninformed, misinformed, or careless approach, a perfectly healthy and natural dietary approach can then easily (and unjustly) get labeled as “fanatical”, “extreme”, or “dangerous”.

To take on raw veganism in this day and age, and do so successfully and sustainably, we need a certain level of emotional and spiritual maturity, and connection to our own inner authority—our inner knowing. Raw veganism can be the safest, healthiest, and most beneficial way of eating, but only if it is approached in an intelligent and responsible manner. Otherwise it, like anything else done blindly or recklessly, can prove more harmful than helpful.

The Best Part of Raw Veganism

The best part about raw veganism is that we do not have to go 100% or fully raw vegan to experience many, if not all, of the benefits described above. In fact in my own life at this time, I maintain a diet that is high, but not fully raw vegan. This means that typically one of my meals of the day includes cooked vegan food, where all other meals and snacks are raw. As I teach, if we can get to about 75% or three-quarters of our daily food being raw vegan, we are in a really good place, where we optimize the healing and prevention benefits of food for us. In practical terms, this would mean that two of the three main meals and most snacks are raw vegan.

As you go on this journey yourself, you must remember to be your own authority and always work with what you feel is best for you. However, this needs to come from an examined and educated mind, not one that is influenced by, or operates from, a state of fear; whether that fear deals with your health or your social status. You will learn that there are times in your life when a fully raw vegan approach may be the best for you, and times where some cooked or warm vegan foods will prove best. The latter is especially applicable if you live in cold climates. However, this is where that 75% range gives us the flexibility to stay within an optimal health range, while still leaving room for some healthfully cooked vegan foods.

Additionally, the more that a person has a deep and authentic spiritual component as part of the raw vegan journey, the more the latter is enhanced. Regular meditation, time in nature, time in silence, grounding, breath work and the like, all complement a raw vegan journey and increase the likelihood of our success with it. Each of these can also help us further understand and appreciate this lifestyle approach.

Either way, it is important that if one chooses the raw vegan path, they do so with proper education, mindfulness, and maturity. This diet can provide dietary excellence, and in many more ways than any other diet, but we have to be sure that we are:

  1. Eating enough for our metabolic needs.
  2. Eating a good variety of foods regularly.
  3. Listening to our body, and adjusting as needed.

To your best health always!

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