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⪼December 14th
LAST NEWSELLTER OF 2023
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Dear NAAAPY Members,
We hope you're doing well. As part of our ongoing efforts to connect and collaborate, we are excited to invite you to our weekly meeting this Saturday, December 16th, 2023, from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM. Your participation and insights are valuable contributions to the success of our organization, and we would be delighted to have you join us.
Meeting Details
Saturday, December 16th, 2023
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
The Knowledge Shop LA, South Central Los Angeles
2723 W 54th St, 90043
Presentations
Mandla Kayise
Presentation on the City of Los Angeles Reparations Advisory Council
5 PM - 6 PM
George A. Turner
Candidacy presentation for Los Angeles Superior Court Seat #39
6 PM - 7 PM
Mandla Kayise and George A. Turner will provide valuable insights during their presentations, and we encourage you to participate! We would greatly appreciate your presence and input and look forward to a productive and engaging discussion. Please let us know in advance if you have any specific topics you'd like to address during the meeting. We value your commitment to NAAAPY and look forward to seeing you face-to-face at The Knowledge Shop LA, on Saturday. The meeting will be recorded and uploaded at a later date.
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Mandla Kayise is the President and CEO of New World Education (NWE), an education, professional development and community planning consulting organization. NWE specializes in educational and community empowerment. NWE provides tools and strategies for the empowerment, growth and success of students and parents across the educational pipeline, for participants in workforce, career and professional development and residents and other stakeholders engaged in neighborhood and community development. | |
George Andrew Turner Jr., a lifelong Inglewood resident, proud UCLA alumnus, and dedicated attorney, running for Los Angeles Superior Court Seat #39. My journey from valedictorian at Morningside High School to graduating Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa at UCLA shaped my commitment to justice and community service. My advocacy extended beyond academics, focusing on mentoring, addressing racial representation issues at UCLA, and exploring the societal impacts on African American youth. |   |
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BLACK FAMILY SUMMIT 2024:
The New Face of Black Education
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The National Association of African American Parents and Youth (NAAAPY) presents the 2nd Annual Black Family Summit: The New Face of Black Education on March 5, 2024, from 8 am to 5 pm at the California Endowment Center. The first conference was so successful that the 2nd annual conference is set to reach 66% more attendees.
Keynote Speaker, Educator, and Author Dante D. King has published his eye-opening book The 400-Year Holocaust: White America’s Legal, Psychopathic, and Sociopathic Black Genocide - and the Revolt Against Critical Race Theory. King will explore the impacts Anglo-European religious philosophies and belief systems had on establishing legality and religion and how these guiding tools shaped and reinforced the psychology of Whiteness and what we know and recognize as American culture. King is not just an educator, author, and speaker. He is a community activist whose research is set to empower people and change the face of Black education.
Finally, the afternoon keynote speaker, Dr. Chike Akua, is a published author of 15 books and a leader in education. Dr. Akua understands we are experiencing an educational crisis, and there is a need for educational empowerment. Dr. Akua shares his research and the steps to turn our homes and educational institutions into tools for academic achievement and social change. Dr Akua and Mr King will lead the Black Family Summit 2024, supported by dynamic workshop leaders; this is a must-attend summit.
Angela Rena,
Black Family Summit 2024
Project Director
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Black Family University 2024 is coming!
It is my sincerest pleasure to introduce myself to you. I am Yolande Beckles, President and Co-founder of the National Association of African American Parents and Youth, a national organization of Black parents and educators founded with the mission of helping Black families, parents and guardians attain high-quality and equitable education for their children. We empower families by training them to advocate for the needs of their children in the classroom, how to actively participate in their children’s education, and support Black students by offering them culturally specific and pedagogically relevant methods for their enrichment. While we have a national reach, our primary work has been serving the families of LAUSD.
Black Family University provides parents with knowledge, ensuring they are trained and educated. It provides easily accessible and culturally relevant information about the education system, college preparation, financial aid, and scholarship opportunities. Enhancing students’ academic success through resources, tutoring, and study guides to improve academic performance and foster a positive learning environment. My background as a Parent Expert for the past 35 years and that of the founder has led to this foundational program for Black families, parents, guardians and kinship caregivers.
The NAAAPY team’s 200+ years of cumulative experience ensures we have the knowledge to develop our families and community into successful, involved, and engaged advocates who develop whole and loving children. We are booking training sessions for 2024 now. The Foundational Curriculum is attached, which we believe all participants must attend first. The second course will be offered later in the year as a follow-up to the initial program. Please join our mailing list to be alerted early about our second course!
If you have any questions about the program, please do not hesitate to contact Yolande Beckles at naaapy2022@gmail.com to see more of our work or visit our website at https://www.naaapy.org.
We look forward to hearing from you soon,
Yolande Beckles
Board President
NAAAPY
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Lines in the Dust
Hosted by: Dr Ryan Smith & Dr Alicia Montgomery
| Thank you, Dr Alicia Montgomery, for the invitation to such a moving and powerful play! For black women as mothers and children within America’s education system, it was beautiful to be in a room of social activists in the field of education. Also, anti-blackness was the central topic of discussion among the audience afterwards. If this play returns in 2024, this will be an excellent event for all NAAAPY members to attend. |  
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Volunteer Applications: Black Family Summit 2024
The BFS Committee
| Project Director: Angela Jackson Committee Members: Roman, Goldie, LeTaun | On a site visit to The California Endowment, our event location for The 2nd Black Family Summit! We are currently recruiting NEW VOLUNTEERS, who will attend the event for free on the day. If you'd like to learn more, send an email as soon as possible to Angela Jackson. |  
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2 Day Retreat
California Family Engagement Network
| This two-day conference featured sessions by like-minded family engagement experts from across the state of California. The event's goals included strengthening relationships, introducing CAFEN, providing updates from players in the landscape and lessons learned, identifying barriers to implementing effective family engagement in schools, and identifying solutions and direction for CAFEN. Yolande Beckles, Board President of NAAAPY, presented on Anti-Blackness in the Parent Engagement Community and the Need for Black & Brown Solidarity. Also, as her role on the State Steering Committee for math. Everyone received a free copy of "Family and Community Partnerships: Promising Practices for Teachers and Teacher Educators", Chapter 12 is co-authored by Araceli Simeón, Teneh Weller, Yolande Beckles, and Rosa RiVera Furumoto. |  
 
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We are excited to see you in 2024...
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