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 1955 Jaguar D-Type

BECAUSE we have forgotten our ancestors, our children no longer give us honor. BECAUSE we have lost the path our ancestors cleared kneeling in perilous undergrowth, our children cannot find their way. BECAUSE we have banished the God of our ancestors, our children cannot pray. BECAUSE the old wails of our ancestors have faded beyond our hearing, our children cannot hear us crying. BECAUSE we have abandoned our wisdom of mothering and fathering, our befuddled children give birth to children they neither want nor understand. BECAUSE we have forgotten how to love, the adversary is within our gates, an holds us up to the mirror of the world shouting, ‘Regard the loveless’ Therefore we pledge to bind ourselves to one another, to embrace our lowliest, to keep company with our loneliest, to educate our illiterate, to feed our starving, to clothe our ragged, to do all good things, knowing that we are more than keepers of our brothers and sisters. We ARE our brothers and sisters. IN HONOR of those who toiled and implored God with golden tongues, and in gratitude to the same God who brought us out of hopeless desolation, we make this pledge. 

Poem: “The Black Family Pledge” by Maya Angelou from The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou (1994)

Engineering student Matthew Nelson is leading an effort to graduate 10,000 black engineers annually

Matthew Nelson, 32,  is an engineering student and national chairperson for the National Society for Black Engineers, or NSBE. NSBE is a student-governed nonprofit that seeks to connect black engineers with STEM careers and increase networking opportunities within the black community. Nelson’s big goal is to get 10,000 black engineering graduates annually by 2025. How? Exposure.

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