#mamaknowscommunity

Social Activist Yvonne Jones returns for the final installation of our mini series #mamaknowscommunity. This time she again welcomes three generations of women from her family to talk community, family, and legacy.  Welcome back to the studio Mrs. Emma Steward, Mrs. Shirley Roberson-Presley, and Dr. Penny Logan.

Our guests hold no punches in this open and honest conversation about the struggle for liberation for the Black community. There are also surprise connections between Mrs. Jones' family and the legendary Fred Hampton.

Community Mother Emma Steward, Educator Shirley Roberson-Presley and Dr. Penny Logan speak with Mrs. Jones about their experiences working to build community, fight oppression, and uphold their ministry as #superaunts. If you don't know Aunts are the backbone of the Black community. In Episode 26, Mrs. Jones gets her sisters and aunt to share their Auntie Legacy.

Mrs. Emma Steward is a nonagenarian living in Hot Springs, AR who continues to do her part to infuse care and integrity in her community and especially works at ensuring her church is well taken care of.

Educator Shirley Roberson-Presley has been teaching revolutionary math concepts since the 1980’s. She makes her home and community in northern Louisiana.

Dr. Penny Logan received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas - Austin. She is a fierce advocate for nontraditional students and a proponent of community college as a gateway to personal advancement.

To learn more about a few of the topics we covered in this episode, check out
Fred-Hampton
The Emerging Movement for Police and Prison Abolition
Educational Opportunities in Prison Key in Reducing Crime
Cointel-pro

Social Activist Yvonne Jones is back in the studio for Episode 25. This time she welcomes three guests: Mrs. Emma Steward, Educator Shirley Roberson-Presley, and Dr. Penny Logan.

Each of these women are not only members of Mrs. Jones’ family but as community builders have been working to better neighborhoods and families in the Black Community for generations.

In this candid conversation social activist Jones talks with Community Mother Emma Steward, Educator Shirley Roberson-Presley and Dr. Penny Logan to share what community means to them as well as the ways they have been work to preserve the African legacies of community and family inherited from our ancestors.

Mrs. Emma Steward is a nonagenarian living in Hot Springs, AR who continues to do her part to infuse care and integrity in her community and especially works at ensuring her church is well taken care of.

Educator Shirley Roberson-Presley has been teaching revolutionary math concepts since the 1980’s. She makes her home and community in northern Louisiana.

Dr. Penny Logan received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas - Austin. She is a fierce advocate for nontraditional students and a proponent of community college as a gateway to personal advancement.

Episode 24, Social Activist Yvonne Jones co-host for continuation of our mini series #mamaknowscommunity.

Mrs. Jones is a lifetime Detroit resident.  She spent her formatives years during the turmoil of Civil Rights Movement and has first hand experience with the Detroit Rebellion of 1967. She is unashamed of being a direct benefactor of Affirmative Action and the advances made by the Civil Rights Movement. In her second episode as co-host, she continues her conversation with Pan African Activist Nehanda Green. Ms. Green is the mother of one adult daughter and two granddaughters. She has both an undergraduate degree and a  Masters in Public Administration. She is a long time Pan African Political Activist and has traveled extensively through North America, Europe and Asia.  But Ms. Green's favorite destination is Africa. She is the author of five children's books and a City of Detroit retiree where she worked as an accountant.

In this episode Mrs. Jones and Ms. Green share the individuals and movements that inspire their community work. Beginning with an open conversation about Marcus Garvey, we discover that Ms. Green has a direct link to Garveyite movement. Mrs. Jones likewise shares her love of the radical nonviolent philosophy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Together they offer a life curriculum on African activism everyone should become familiar with, here are just a few names they dropped in hopes that you will research and learn more:

Marcus Garvey
Richard Allen
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Kwame Nkrumah
Kwame Ture
W.E.B. DuBoise
Booker T. Washington
Ghanaian Independence
African United
All African People’s Revolutionary Party (post SNCC)
el Hajj Malik el Shabazz (Malcolm X)
Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth
Fannie Lou Hamer
Shirley Chisholm

In Episode 23, introduces Yvonne Jones as co-host for That Social Work Lady Podcast's mini series #mamaknowscommunity.

Mrs. Jones is a lifetime Detroit resident.  She spent her formatives years during the turmoil of Civil Rights Movement and has first hand experience with the Detroit Rebellion of 1967. She is unashamed of being a direct benefactor of Affirmative Action and the advances made by the Civil Rights Movement. In her debut episode as co-host, she invites Pan African Activist Nehanda Green to the studio. Ms. Green is the mother of one adult daughter and two granddaughters. She has both an undergraduate degree and a  Masters in Public Administration. She is a long time Pan African Political Activist And has traveled extensively through North America, Europe and Asia.  But Ms. Green's favorite destination is Africa. She is the author of five children's books and a City of Detroit retiree where she worked as an accountant.

What a treat that Episode 23 allows me to be in conversation with two dynamic women who have spent their lives working to build community and work for the liberation of Black people throughout the diaspora. Ms. Green shares her philosophy of Pan Africanism, while Mrs. Jones focuses her energy on the eradication of the oppression of Black people in America.

Together, they helped build a preschool in Freetown, Sierra Leone and have sustained that school for a generation. How? Through small donations from their community members based in Detroit, MI, Ms. Green and Mrs. Jones have held up and help grow the Mawina Kouyate Early Education Center.  They liken their dedication to help build the school among their other community building efforts to the #kitchenpolitics of women like Georgia Gilmore.

Georgia Gilmore was a Montgomery, GA cook, midwife and activist whose secret kitchen fed the civil rights movement. For more information about her story check out: Meet the Fearless Cook Who Secretly Fed - And Funded - The Civil Rights Movement.

What to learn more about Pan Africanism?
The Pan African Movement
The History of Pan Africanism