Part Two: Fractured Families Create Fractured Communities

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IS YOUTH VIOLENCE AN EPIDEMIC
THAT COULD HURT SOMEONE YOU LOVE?

Part Two: Fractured Families Create Fractured Communities

What is one thing that could help bring families and neighbors closer together?

Part Two: Fractured Families Create Fractured Communities

Families and communities are connected. When families are wounded, disconnected, or unstable, those conditions can extend into neighborhoods, schools, and relationships. When communities are divided by fear, silence, and mistrust, young people may not receive the belonging, protection, guidance, and positive connection they need.

A fractured community can make it more difficult to recognize problems early, support families, protect young people, and respond to conflict before it becomes violence. Creating safer communities requires more than reacting after harm occurs. It requires people to rebuild relationships and accept shared responsibility for the well-being of young people.

The Create Conversations Community addresses this obstacle by creating opportunities for listening, education, mentorship, community forums, roundtables, civic participation, and shared action. Rebuilding relationships helps strengthen the network of support surrounding families and young people.

Comment below and tell me: What is one thing that could help bring families and neighbors closer together?

We are raising $50,000 as an initial launch-development milestone, not as the full budget for the initiative. This first step will help us begin building the foundation for the larger vision. If you believe every young person deserves a safer, more hopeful future and you believe in this work, please support the launch by making a gift, hosting an online fundraiser, or sharing this post.

Learn more about the program and give here:

https://givebutter.com/support-sustainable-community...

Join the Create Conversations Community Facebook group and remain connected to the conversation:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/createconversationscommunity

For more in-depth program information, email conversations@risenetwork.net.

The next post in the series, “Education Is the Key to Future Workforce Development,” will examine how education can help young people develop the skills, confidence, and opportunities needed to build a sustainable future.

Please share this post and let’s Build the Future, Together.

Rozalyn Shepard

Create Conversations Community

Rise Network Community Development Corporation

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Venita Benitez Joins New York in Restoring UN International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

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Venita Benitez Joins New York in
Restoring UN International Day of
Remembrance of the Victims of
Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

"BlackScoop News Announces Historic Coverage"

Advocate Venita Benitez Joins New York in Restoring UN International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the Place Where the Story Began

The Black News Scoop, is proud to announce the publication of a groundbreaking feature on Advocate Venita Benitez, whose work has reshaped global remembrance in real time. For the first time in history, the United Nations International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, will be honored annually at Fort Monroe, the only UNESCO Site of Memory in the United States by Venita Benitez.

This is not a relocation. This is not a replacement. This is not taking anything away from New York.

This is joining New York — and restoring the remembrance for the ancestors at the place where the history began.  New York remains the global stage of the United Nations.

Fort Monroe is the historical ground of 1619. Now, for the first time, they stand together.

Why Fort Monroe Matters — The UNESCO Truth Most People Never Knew
Fort Monroe is not just a historic landmark. It is a UNESCO Site of Memory, one of the most sacred designations in global heritage — reserved for places where humanity confronts its deepest wounds:

• genocide
• slavery
• forced migration
• human trafficking
• crimes against humanity

Fort Monroe is the only UNESCO Site of Memory in the United States.

And here is the revelation: Fort Monroe remains protected even after the United States withdraws from UNESCO in December 2026.

UNESCO Sites of Memory do not disappear when a country leaves. They remain protected under international heritage law. They remain recognized globally. They remain part of humanity’s memory.

Which means: The UN Remembrance at Fort Monroe — restored by Venita Benitez — is permanent.

This is the part the world didn’t know. This is the part BlackScoop is breaking. This is the part that changes history.

Cassandra Wilson, Jazz Voice Who Gave "Strange Fruit" New Power, Dies at 70

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Sultry and Socially Conscious Jazz Legend Cassandra Wilson Dies At 70

Wilson at the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival, NYC, 2007
Photo Credit Professor Bop

Cassandra Wilson, the Grammy Award-winning singer whose Mississippi blues roots shaped one of the most distinctive voices in modern jazz, died Tuesday, September 1st in Jackson, Mississippi, according to Hinds County Coroner Jeramiah Howard.  Jeramiah Howard, confirmed her death at age 70; officials released no cause.

Wilson built her legacy as a musician who moved fluidly across genres, opening for Miles Davis and touring with Wynton Marsalis during a run of major jazz success through the 1980s and '90s. She embraced the title of musician above any single label, a stance that let her carry blues, folk, and soul into jazz spaces and expand who the genre could reach.

Her low, smoky voice brought fresh romance to Great American Songbook standards while she pulled covers from Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Neil Young, and Mississippi bluesman Robert Johnson into her repertoire, proving remarkably popular in decades when jazz lost mass audience share to rock and rap.

Wilson's rendition of "Strange Fruit" stands as one of her most powerful contributions to American music and memory. Billie Holiday's original recording exposed the horror of lynching in the Jim Crow South, and Wilson's version, with its slow-burning alto and spacious arrangement, carried that history forward for new listeners decades later. She turned the song into a bridge between generations, connecting the anti-lynching movement of the 20th century to ongoing conversations about racial violence today.

Checkout the Strange Fruit Video Below...