The “Kibaka” and “Luqmon” Ancestral Memorial - Honoring NTA's Legacy

The “Kibaka” and “Luqmon”Ancestral Memorial - and all our ancestors of the Non Traditional Approach - is co-sponsored by The Resurrection Study Group (RSG) and How Lives Link Altogether! (H.O.L.L.A!), family members and the Spirit(s) of our ancestors. This Ancestral Memorial is to honor the Legacy of the Pr*son Rights Movement of 1970; The New Pr*son Movement and The Non Traditional Approach with a focus on honoring Kibaka and Luqmon. In addition, this event is a ritual of Afrikan Centered Education, with a particular focus on sharing Community Specific Wisdom that has sustained our specific communities over the last 60 years plus ( also, we have a book coming out at the end of the year). In closing, this event is a community specific practice to raise awareness and resources for the “Kibaka” and “Luqmon” Fund to sustain the teachings of the NTA within the communities most impacted by the Criminal Punishment System - Seven Neighborhoods.

Door Open 5pm -6pm (Non Traditional Approach to Criminal and Social Justice Museum Exhibit Presentation)

Program Start 6pm-8pm

Reception/Community Building 8pm-9pm

Hosted By: The Resurrection Study Group (RSG) which was co developed by Eddie (Kibaka) Ellis and incarerated youth to create the New Afrikan Man. It was a void in Pr*son and in the community of Youth Leaders and Responsible Black Men that could step into leadership roles, be positive role models; in Pr*son and upon return to their communities. Through learning this information and conducting purging sessions among themselves they began to heal from the traumas of being black and living in communities that fed the New York State Pr*son System. The pedagogy of the Resurrection Study Group was Pan-Afrikanism-Afrocentricty and The Non-Traditional Approach to Criminal and Social Justice Issues (NTA), that latter came to be known as the seven neighborhood study. The NTA provided an analysis of how and why specific communities were the majority in Pr*son and provided hope for the majority of the men in the Resurrection Study Group who were serving life sentences. How Our Lives Link Altogether! (H.O.L.L.A!) is a transformational grassroots youth program providing healing-centered youth organizing training, youth development services provider, political/cultural/spiritual education, and non-traditional approaches to healing, education, and community relationship building centered grassroots movements learned lessons; we facilitate youth development as a radical healing process of Healing Justice. We engage in spiritual, political and cultural education and healing-centered youth organizing training, while connecting youth/participants to societal and communal resources to sustain and develop grassroots leadership and community transformation. The legacy of transfering of intergenrational wisdom of healing through purging sessions transcends to H.O.L.L.A.! through with H.O.L.L.A!'s Healing Justice Movement and Healing Circles Pedogogy Praxis.

The Families of Luqmon and Kibaka

Host or Publisher How Our Lives Link Altogether! (H.O.L.L.A!)