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A “Great and Mighty Walk” for African Centered Education December 2009 “We have come to the nation’s capital to acknowledge and elevate the need to restore our children’s inalienable right to a childhood by challenging consciously responsible Black adults to lead by example and to make better choices as to where and how our children are educated. “We challenge this administration to support those choices by acknowledging obstacles faced by African American children in Eurocentric educational environments and by supporting alternative learning arenas that instill a sense of self-worth and cultural responsibility.”....
NBC WMBF (Myrtle Beach, Florence, SC) - Walking for a purpose Tuesday, August 04, 2009 ...Gueka, who has been walking since July 15, passed through Florence and Dillon counties over the weekend on his 1,000 mile trek to the White House. He is scheduled to arrive in Washington next Wednesday and will make presentations in front of the White House and U.S. Department of Education...
NBC WSAV (Savannah, GA) NEWS 3 - Walking for African Centered Education Friday, July 24, 2009 One Florida Man believes teaching African American Kids about the accomplishments and history of Africans is a key to success…and he is walking up the east coast to prove it. News Three’s Alice Massimi joined him today to talk about African Centered Teaching and whether it can solve some of our problems. His back aches and his feet hurt… but Amefika Geuka continues… “We feel the way to change that is to put a focus on education of those children being educated from their own perspective,” explains Geuka. Which is why he and two others founded the Joseph Littles - NGUZO SABA Charter School in Florida....
NBC WPTV (West Palm Beach, FL) NEWS 5 - Walkathon to raise awareness to African centered education Wednesday, July 15, 2009
THE MADISON TIMES - 1,000-mile Trek for African-Centered Education Friday, July 10, 2009 Do you have a cause for which you would walk 1,000 to raise funds and awareness? Well, Brother Amefika Geuka does. Indeed he does. The Founder and former Headmaster of the Joseph Littles - Nguzo Saba Charter School (JL-NSCS) will begin walking from his hometown of West Palm Beach, Fla. to Washington, D.C. on July 15. Why? "To call the village to account," Geuka says. "Black people must be responsible for and become the primary source of funding for the effective education and development for our children," he continued. Upon arrival in the nation's capital, Geuka will petition the president and the Department of Education to 'acknowledge' that children of African descent have a right and a need to an education rooted in their history, heritage, and culture....
SOUTH FLORIDA TIMES - Charter school leader plans walk to D.C. Friday, July 10, 2009 Geuka counters that his school’s nearly 100 kindergarten through eighth-grade students generally are the very at-risk kids who were being forced out of regular schools. He says the district’s consistent handicapping of the school by withholding the full financial support its students deserve, particularly capital dollars that can be used for buildings, is the reason why it is behind on rent payments and looking to raise money as part of the walkathon...
PALM BEACH POST - School founder plans to walk to D.C. to gain support Wednesday, July 01, 2009 WEST PALM BEACH — The founder of the Joseph Littles/Nguzo Saba Charter school plans to walk 1,000 miles to Amefika Geuka plans to read proclamations outside of the White House addressing President Obama and outside the Department of Education addressing Education Secretary Arne Duncan.
THE MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY JOURNAL - Milwaukee ASCAC supports African centered Florida to Washington Walkathon By Taki S. Raton Florida’s only African Centered public school announced on June 26 that its co-founder and current Board Chairman, Amefika D. Geuka, will walk from the school in West Palm Beach, Florida to Washington, D.C. to dramatize the urgent need for African Centered Education for children of African descent...
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Washington on his 69-year-old bones to try to gain support for African-centered education and perhaps raise some money for his school in the process. Community Login
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