Universal Street Academy
E-Newsletter
The Makers and the Owners
Peace!
We will that this newsletter finds
you in a state of peace and happiness. We have been very productive since our
last correspondence. We are in Master Allah Why and we are showing and proving
Why Allah is Master; because he is the best of planners, the best know-er and
owner of the planet. Historically we've settle on the best part; however the
Universal Street Academy is settled in what many may call the worst part (of
the city); WE WILL make it the BEST PART. We are building righteousness and
destroy that which is not. The Gods and Earths have never been more determined.
We are writing history in advance and the future is bright!
We have much to catch up on; from
the fish fry fundraiser, to the raffle results, our other institution in
PowerHill and the huge turnout at the U.S.A. 'Build to be Born' Cleanup.
Let's get right to it!
-Universal Street Academy
All For One.
One for All.
On Saturday, May 18th 2013, the 5% made history. Universal Family from Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York traveled to PowerHill to add on to the massive clean out. More than 60 Gods and Earths came together to build and bond. This was a monumental day! Collectively, we removed more than 20,000 lbs (>10 tons!) of metal, wood, and debris!This was the last major demolition and removal before we begin designing our home. We worked from 12PM to about 4PM. Afterwards we nourished our bodies with the meal the Earths, who were gracious enough to provide, and enjoyed our social equality. It all happened in a flash. The Gods were on their way back north by 6PM.
New
bonds were built, old ones continued, and new borns were sparked. The
neighborhood USA is located in had never seen so many dedicated original men
and women working as one for one common cause in the name of righteousness. May
18th 2013 will be remembered as one of the greatest days in Universal Street
Academy's history...And When the call comes from abroad to build the next
academy, regardless to where it is, your family from PowerHill will be there to
show our supreme equality.
Top Left: Almighty Radi Allah and I Supreme Allah pause for a reflection.
Bottom Left: Um Allah putting the finishing touches on the second floor.
Top Right: Just some of the scrap metal from the basement.
Bottom Left: Um Allah putting the finishing touches on the second floor.
Top Right: Just some of the scrap metal from the basement.
Bottom Right: Gods hauling 'fill' to the dump truck.
Left: Allah Sha Sha showing his carpetry skills.
Top Right: Gods drawing up plans for the basement.
Bottom Right: Wisdom Understanding and C-Mecca ensuring all attendees are accounted for; "Make sure you sign the shirt!"
The Universal Street Academy Salutes
The Black Writers Museum
Our brother I-Supreme
of the Desert in PowerHill has relocated his famed Black Writers Museum (BWM)
to 5800 Germantown Avenue at the historic Vernon House (seen above). The
Gods and Earths are making our mark and creating institutions that will stand
the test of time! The Black Writers Museum is a cultural institution that
emphasizes on black, historically significant language, poetry, and prose. Only
minutes from the Universal Street Academy, the Black Writers Museum will build
hand and hand with USA in bringing civilization to the forefront of our
communities. Let's rewrite our history one word at a time! The Black Writers
Museum will be conducting their 'Expressive Arts Summer Camp' from 7/8/13 to
8/16/13 featuring African Dance, drumming, and black classical literary arts
with academic enrichment, sports, recreation, and nutrition. Look out for the
official BWM Grand Opening September 2013!
SEEN AND HEARD: True-Skool
Radio Interviews the Gods
Allah
Universal Lord Life, Divine Universal Allah, and Khazire Knowledge Allah
interviewed with True Father Allah on True Skool Radio in
April regarding the Universal Street Academy, its early impact, and future
plans. The interview was peace. We want to thank Saladin Quanaah Allah, who
brokered the interview and of course True Father Allah for giving the Gods and
opportunity to speak about our beloved Academy. You can check out the Full Interview HERE
U.S.A. April Raffle Winners...
Congratulations to the Winners of our April Raffle Drawing!!!
1st Prize: Ms. Destiny Smallwood
(top left) $300
2nd Prize: Mrs. Dee Click (bottom
left) $200
3rd Prize: Mr. Shabazz Dow $100
'Fresh Never Frozen'
Fish Fry
In April we hosted our first fish
fry and it was a great success! The doors were open, the music was on point,
and the foood?! Just ask the people! All the funds raised went to Universal Street
Academy incurred and inherited debts. We would like to thank everyone for
coming out and supporting our event. Be sure to keep an eye out for our other
upcoming events in May and June!
Builder's
Build
'A Nation Needs its Icons, Institutions
and Monuments'
Nation n. (from
Latin--nationem, accusative of natio/gnatio; (g)natus "to be born,"
"nation, race, birth"): A chronologically constituted
"stable" community of people, formed on the basis of a common
language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up
manifested in a common culture. [knowledge/ awareness + culture= nation].
Building our nation is something to get enthused
about. Establishing its' institutions is what its all about. We have a project
in which to pull our arm, leg, leg arm, head together, to achieve something
great as a single entity (NGE, our universal family) and that makes me feel
excellent. We are growing together as a nation, and we have a focus project
that we are excited about. It is so great to see us coming to together for a
common cause. Social means to advocate a society. . . for one common cause and
equality means to be equal in everything (8/1-14).
Ironically, the discussion in this
lesson was why the devil keep our people from their own social equality. They
were always about "divide and conquer." There is no future for a man
without a country. We are a people who need to come together. During slavery in
this country, as a practice, they would never export slaves from the same
locale. Once we (as several different groups) were brought to the wilderness of
North America, we witnessed the White mans deeds from 1555 (in Jamestown,
Virgina) until present. We were brought over here to be his tool;
"his" slaves of mental death and power (14/1-40). So we were sold to
slave owners like ox and mule and kept in the barns and plantations of White
America as a smart beast of burden (with no culture of our own), helping our
owners build his free nation, while we remained enslaved without any
architecture, without any monuments, without land or homes. We were subject to
the will and desires of these colonists--soon to be called Americans (this was
1555--221 years before America won their independence from England). Our people
witnessed those people called the colonists, double-crossed the Native
Americans (the two million/the brown man)--after they helped them survive
America's harsh winters. They systematically stole the land from the Natives by
way of broken treaties and aggression. They annihilated them with germ warfare
(syphilis, gonorrhea), disrespected them through deceit, and all out war with
the objective to take their land. We watched Whites, not as fellow human
beings--not as man--but as a beast of burden who could comprehend the
chronicles and posture of the Whiteman's progress in America.
Though we were on plantations all over
the thirteen colonies, as well as the lands obtained after the Louisiana
Purchase--slaves did not look at themselves as the same people with the same
ethnicity and common suffering--but different people from different tribes,
just as the devil wishes us to believe--because there's strength in numbers (
Why does he like the devil (7/1-36)(8-10/1-36)(6/1-14)(8/1-14); Why does the
devil teach that (12/1-40).
We lost everything including our language and the
knowledge of who we are as a people. To subjugate means to forcibly impose
obedience or servitude. We were a people who were separated from our culture
and not allowed to even speak or practice any of its elements by the colonists
who subjugated us. We were their property, their tool--their inventions, their
religion and manner of doing things was the only consistent thing in our lives
(10/1-40). In early American history, their was no punishment for a
slave-master killing a Blackman who was considered a slave to a White man. And
generally speaking, in this society, killing a Blackman in America has a
different consequence than killing a White. But worst of all, was the
psychological perspective these acts had on Black people. If someone keeps
telling you something over and over--aaand you don't take the time to
investigate to see what is true and what is not--eventually you will give into
their psychosis (13/1-40). As subjugated people, one is subject to what the
other culture feels about or concerning them.
We seem to be more of a collective--more like one
people or nation--during the Separate But Equal/Jim Crow Era. That is because
we had no help, no assistance from White America--we had to rely on ourselves
or perish. Sure fear and thoughts of inability entered the minds of our former
Self (ancestors) but we had to make a way or perish. Necessity is the mother of
invention. We got used to it and began to grow as people. We begin to prove to
ourselves, their psychosis perpetrated upon us--was wrong. We became more
confident in ourselves, given the experiences we were making. We began to know
better. The message came through during 1933/1934. The Blackman was exposed to
it, but he didn't fully get it. Elijah did, Malcolm did, the Father got the
Morse code, but a lot of us seem to not be able to recover from the
"sleepy slumber and psychosis" that the White man's culture placed upon
the Blackman in America. Our people did not have that much belief in ourselves.
Unless we saw it with our own eyes, we didn't believe the Blackman capable of
ever doing much. White society had been downing us directly and indirectly for
so long, until we subliminally started letting it seep in! It would take some
time for us to totally see who we are as a people, but we know it will come
from what we show and prove to ourselves.
When The NGE came about, we had to learn the
culture and integrate it into our living. We had to make it our identity. We
had to forget what the Whiteman taught us and taught their own people. We had
to forget the tricknowledge (4/1-14). We were taught that the Blackman is God
and that there is no God but Allah, but it took us time to understand that that
meant we were one awareness operating through several forms. It took us even
longer to work together and be advocated for one common cause--but as we grow
older and steadfast within these principles or lessons--we are getting that
clear mental picture known as understanding. We are not as reluctant to pull
resources. Slowly we are considering the possibilities. We are waking up to
what we can achieve by knowing what knowledge our former Self believed.
Right on Broad Street, near Broad& amp; Ridge
Av., stands the Divine Lorraine Hotel. The hotel was purchased for pennies by
the Father Divine group as a collective entity. This is exactly what Ron
Karenga meant by collective economics (Kuji-chakalia). A lot of these things
never made the major news because These were not things the Whites like to put
in the papers because they didn't want to encourage us. Many Blacks were using
the "power in numbers strategy" in the 1930's. There's strength in
numbers, and our adversaries know this. Pretending like they are making some
concessions, is how they usually diffuse our momentum. Just look at the Civil
Rights chronology and you'll see. Simply put, the powers that be want to rob
all and and live in luxury (12/1-40). The Father came to address our First
Born's time, as they came to address ours, and we come to address the babies
here and on the way. But still the colored man pollutes our playing field. . .
The NGE needs visual institutions for the community
to see. A building that people passing by can say, "The Gods and Earths
mean business!" We need a building where people can come by and see that
we are a serious force within the community. We need "home" to
provide "shelter from the storm." We need a place to come home to; an
operation base for community opportunity. That's what the Universal Street
Academy is. It is a place for brilliant minds to landscape. We need a place to
gather together, to strengthen one another; a place of fellowship. We need a
base to enterprise. Marcus Garvey had his members working during the Depression
because they sold various necessary perishables to its' members (toilet paper,
paper towels, brooms, shovels, car tires, etc). They kept their money in their
own hands.
We are living in some exciting times.
My persons is very pleased at the developments here. This isn't the first time
we thought about developing a school/ academy, but my personal perspective
is--then our desire was there but our individual development and maturity--as a
group--was not up to the level where it is today; nor were our skills as
entity. "Life" has taught us a lot about the other side of Allah:
"The I am because we are part." The Universal Street Academy is a
much better building in terms of features, it is situated in pivotal
neighborhood that services several Black areas. It is on a major avenue,
Germantown and around the corner from Broad Street--one of our city's
"main vein" streets (Market Street being the other). It is also very
close to Temple's Medical School. It has two major auditoriums with stages,
which can double as ballrooms for our own activities and can be available for
rental. It has two accompanying store fronts for rental and money making
ventures. But most of all, it is something our nation owns, so it can generate
its own income and enterprises, as well as a place of refuge.
This is a real good move to begin
controlling our own destiny.
Allah U Akbar! This is great!
Allah U Akbar! This is great!
Peace,
A.U.L Life Justice Shabazz
Let's Get Dirty
We Meet at the Academy every Saturday between
8AM and 1PM
3306 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia PA 19140
3306 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia PA 19140
Save the Date
Mark your calendar, set your reminders, notify
your family and join us in celebration of our 31st
Annual Family Day.
Cookout July
7th 2013, LEMON HILL PAVILLION, PowerHill, PA 12PM
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Peace!
