1. Currently serving as an independent African American Lutheran Free Congregationalist Senior Pastor/Executive Director, Rev. Joel Washington (Khunanpu Sangoma) was first Ordained and Commissioned to place @ Kennedy/King College Campus Ministry -on the 48th Anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom- by Metro Chicago Synod Bishop, Rev. Wayne Miller and Endorsed by the Synod’s then African American Strategy Team-Sunday, August 28, 2011, @ Windsor Park Lutheran Church.

2. Consistent with his role as a Senior Black Lutheran Confirmation Class Leader of Chicago, Rev. Washington (Sangoma) also serves as the promotional organizer of YOUNG GIFED AND BLACK Afrocentric resource center inside and outside the modern homeschooling movement.

3. Young Gifted and Black theme song

Sung by Nina Simone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTGiKYqk0gY&list=RDRTGiKYqk0gY&index=1

Lyrics- Weldon Irving

Young, gifted and black
Oh what a lovely precious dream
To be young, gifted and black
Open your heart to what I mean

In the whole world you know
There’s a million boys and girls
Who are young, gifted and black
And that’s a fact

“You are young, gifted and black”
We must begin to tell our young
There’s a world waiting for you
Yours is the quest that’s just begun

When you feelin’ really low
Yeah, there’s a great truth that you should know
When you’re young, gifted and black
Your soul’s intact

How to be young, gifted and black?
Oh, how I long to know the truth
There are times when I look back
And I am haunted by my youth

Oh, but my joy of today
Is that we can all be proud to say
“To be young, gifted and black
Is where it’s at”

Is where it’s at
Is where it’s at

4. Link Simone song #3 above

5. Our resource center is also influenced by the Maria Montessori alternative school education movement.

Respectfully Curated and Submitted: Rev. Joel Washington (Khunanpu Sangom), Senior Pastor/Executive Director, Teleconference OUR FATHER’S BUSINESS WEEKLY, 12/27/24, Kwanzaa’s Kujchagulia-Self-Determination