Think Tank

On a periodic basis, the Black Think Tank members will be able to participate and award a prize to the authors of the most worthy statements relevant to our condition and its resolution. Individuals submitting statements, whether members or not, should keep them as short as possible and no more than 700 words. These could be statements you have written in the past (state when) or altogether new. We will form a panel of judges who will select the top 3 winners in each period of competition, then members will vote to rank them First, Second, and Third prizewinners. Winning essays will be published on our website and otherwise distributed on the internet. Selected others will also be printed here and distributed from time to time. If repetition is the first law of learning, then many things will bear repeating

To repeat our mission:

We can see clearly now that the old ideas have not worked, and some that might have worked have yet to be tried. We as a people have argued back and forth for decades lost forever over the many good thoughts and corollaries of Marcus Garvey, Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois -- but never really implemented the strategies of either one of these great thinkers.

We must continue to be receptive to the insights and strategies of the anointed and renowned among us, past and present, but now is the time to penetrate and jump-start the wisdom of the people, the unsung, unseen and unheard, including those Langston Hughes once dubbed the "misbred, misread and misled." Thus Langston anticipated the words of his fellow alumnus, Kwame Nkrumah, of Pennsylvania's Lincoln University. 

"Go back to the people; live with them, learn from them, love them.
Start with what they know, build on what they have."

Visit the Black Think Tank bookstore!