The International Council for Urban Peace, Justice and Empowerment (ICUPJE)

The International Council for Urban Peace, Justice and Empowerment (ICUPJE) The International Council for Urban Peace, Justice and Empowerment began as the National Council for Urban Peace, Justice and Empowerment.

The International Council for Urban Peace, Justice and Empowerment (formerly the National Council for Urban (Gang) Peace and Justice) is an umbrella organization with over 35 affiliates throughout the country. For over 25 years, the Council has sponsored National Gang (Street Organization) Summits; provided prevention and intervention work all over the U.S. to affect change in the lives of youth impacted by poverty, and street warfare. The work of the International Council (Formerly the National Council for Urban (Gang) Peace and Justice) began in response to the epidemic of crack cocaine, gang violence, availability of fire arms, and other issues threatening the stability of inner city neighborhoods. The work of the National Council lowered the gang related homicide rates and incidences of gang related violence by as much as 25% in participating cities (F.B.I. Uniform Crime Statistics). Because the promised peace dividends did not materialize, the peace was not sustained. The International Council for Urban Peace, Justice and Empowerment is a collective of over 35 grassroots and community based organizations nationwide that implemented programming models which changed lives, with documented outcomes. These organizations are led by people who have lived in the trenches, have undergone a transformative process in their lives and are firmly committed to this work. We have been engaged in successful partnerships with traditional as well as nontraditional leadership and organization that are often marginalized and excluded when it involves programming and funding support.

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Black Children’s Book Week is a global celebration of Black children and the people who ensure Black children are represented in books and other children’s media.

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Viola Fletcher’s name carried a century of memory, and today, at 111 years old, she has joined the ancestors.

She was just seven when white mobs destroyed Tulsa’s Greenwood district in 1921. She lived long enough to testify before Congress about what she saw. Long enough to watch the world finally call it what it was. Long enough to publish her own story, Don’t Let Them Bury My Story, and ensure her truth would never again be ignored or rewritten. Long enough to become a living monument to resilience.

Mother Fletcher was a witness who refused to be silent, a survivor who deserved far more than apologies, and a Black woman whose very presence reminded us that history still walks among us.

She was the oldest known survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, and she spent the last years of her life pouring her story into the world, not out of bitterness, but out of duty. Because she knew the power of telling the truth and the danger of letting it fade.

Rest well, Mother Fletcher. May your memory be a blessing, and may we carry your torch with the same courage you carried your truth.

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Honoring all those enslaved people that built the U.S Capitol.

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Sisters by K. Joy Peters

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Savannah State University Welcomes Youngest President Who is Only 36 Years Old

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