Melanin

The Healer

& Science Teacher

Ember Charter

High School

295 Front St.

Brooklyn, NY

11201

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Mbongi

Community Building

Student

Presentations &

Melanin: Our

student-scholars

have something

to say & we have

some decisions

to make!

April 29, 2023

11am-2pm

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Students / Elders: FREE

ADULTS: $10.00 Donation

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The Healer

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Melanin the Healer (MTH) Contents

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We will follow melanin seeking to understand, appreciate and use the biological and chemical properties and functions that make it a powerful healer as an antioxidant, nerve conduction facilitator, and energy converter. AYA has proven that kind of study helps nurture our own Ngolo Zandiakina - self-healing power and therapy as taught us by Nana Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau It is no secret that oppressive education and socialization alienate us from our culture of deep knowing and producing for eternity. This mis- education has alienated us from profound scholarship, science, and math. When it fails to alienate, it manipulates us to use our knowledge to serve aliens. Wounded, we often favor the superficially esoteric, spiritual, and compensatory while abandoning science. This spirit-science split is not our way because there was no separation for us. Khem / The Black Dot / Melanin may show us the way home.

Melanin - The Healer

Many of us know of melanin as the pigment protecting human skin from the harmful UV rays emitted from the sun. It is that and more - much more! Some know melanin as our bodily equivalent of the black holes in the universe - capturing 99.9% of all light throughout the electromagnetic spectrum. Still, others praise melanin as a gateway to higher intuition and insights into the esoteric unknown. Those who focus on the pineal gland may know melanin as a facilitator of memory, inner vision, intuition, creative genius, and spiritual Illumination. Melanin - The Healer will take you on a slightly different journey.

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Biological Light

We pay homage to some melanin pioneers who paved the way for us and made melanin a household word, those whose research confronted racist science and facilitated Black pride often symbolized by us wearing “Got Melanin?” T-Shirts. While we are proud, we want to honor their legacy with a new movement- Melain Healing Science

Dr. Frances Cress Welsing

Dr. Richard King

Dr. Asa G. Hilliard

Baba Listervelt Middleton

Prof. James Small

Kemetologist, Tony Browder

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The T-Shirt!

It was a great start; now melanin, our ancestors, and our health calls us deeper. We need: Melanin - The Healer Sign up for the Melanin Mbongi

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Melanin Mbongi

To rekindle this Ngolo Zandiakina - Self Healing Power and Therapy and to counter the oppressive education that alienates us away from science, AYA Educational Institute, , its students, parents, and partners will hold a series of Melanin Mbongis nationally and internationally in 2023. Please engage, support, and attend. Mbongi is Kikongo and translates to community gatherings where we discuss and address vital issues affecting our community. Each Mbongi will start with AYA High School students presenting their research from the class Black Body BioKhemistry. Their mission is to stimulate a greater awareness of melanin as a healer and demonstrate its efficacy as a science teacher. The students have been using Khem, Melanin, and the Black Dot to lead them back into the wonders of biology, chemistry, neurology, radiology, and more. Their Mbongi presentations may lead us back as well. Youth and adult discussion, educational options, projects, and community action steps will follow. They are calling us to make some new decisions about melanin, our health, our education. They are calling us - adults - to take new action - “Melanin Poppin’” isn’t enough. Let’s come together.

Each Melanin gathering evokes Anpu - the Kemetic (Egyptian) jackal-headed deity also known as Upwat - the “Opener of Ways.” Melanin as Upwat opens the way for discovering the scientists and healers in us. Melanin as Anpu - helps us make critical judgments and take needed action for youth and adult health and education.

Discussion | Decision | Action

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1. The Debt: Black Melanin Pioneers and Scientists 2. Melanogenesis 3. Henrietta Lacks and the Science of HeLa Cells 4. Synthetic vs. Naturally Occurring Melanins 5. Copper, Melanin, and Black Health 6. Protecting and Nurturing our Melanin 7. Can Melanin Split The Water Molecule? Challenging Dr. Arturo Solis Herrera 8. Melanin in Interstellar Space 9. The Protective and “Gain-of- Function Properties” of Melanin in The Face of Radiation

Student Papers &

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Mbongi - Community Decisions & Action:

1. Educational Decisions / Action: a. Heal - Heal the academic wounds caused by racist and/or alienating education (especially science/math) b. Stimulate - Create projects, media, and teaching methods to stimulate our people becoming a science- loving and problem solving people, again c. Nurture - Take actions to nurture a “science for us” skill set in the age of “artificial intelligence,” “equity- based” science camps, and the “anti-critical race theory” veiled attack on African-centered education. d. Organize - Organize and implement “Melanin - The Healer and Science Teacher projects for youth & adults 2. Melanin-Related Health Decisions / Actions: a. Deficient in Vitamin D? Copper? - Melanin? b. Sun Screen - Harmful or helpful? c. Countering Neurodegenerative Diseases in Our Community - Melanin? d. Countering Respiratory Illnesses - Melanin? e. Building Super Immune Systems - Melanin? f. Activating Ngolo Zandiakina - Countering medical and pharmacological “nocebos”

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About AYA Educational Institute

For over 25 years Afiya and Wekesa Madzimoyo have shepherded AYA Educational Institute. It has offered courses for adults and youth. Our week-day and weekend youth programs are executed online as a demonstration school for Black middle & high school students and families. We innovate for success and then share what we’ve learned with parents, other educational communities, and institutions dedicated to uplifting our students, their families, our communities, and our people and restoring us to our traditional greatness. The “Melanin The Healer & Science Teacher” Mbongis are one way we share what we have learned! It’s also a way we reinforce to our students their obligation to their parents, our community and our people and the mutual obligation we - adults - have to them.

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Nana Baffour (aka Asa G. Hilliard III) is the man who introduced me to Melanin - The Black Dot! Who introduced you to melanin?

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Support - We Need You:

• Partners & Co-Sponsors (Individuals, organizations, businesses) • Program Volunteers • Melanin Mbongi Supporters (Schools, Homeschoolers, Educational Organizations) • Youth Small Group Facilitators & Scribes • Melanin Mbongi Publishers • Photographers & Videographers • Financial Contributors

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We are indebted to Nana Fu-Kiau for the concept of Mbongi & Ngolo Zandiakina (self-healing power and theraphy)

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Partners & Parents

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Parents:

Partners:

• Ember High School Charter School (NYC) • Kibolebole Educational Institute • Ayika Solutions (Atlanta) • IKG -Tony Browder (DC) • AYA Tanzania NGO • Virginia Center for African American Men aka VAACM • Virginia Center for African American Women aka VAACW • Davis Bozeman Law Firm (Atlanta) • Let Us Make Man (Atlanta) • The Black Man Lab (Atlanta) • Books-2-Know w/ Baba Kojo (Maryland) • Prof. James Small (NYC) • Prof. Gary Booker (MD) • Baoku and Evelyn Dudeymi

Abena Otudor Adia Shabazz Byran Oates Daphnie Bruno Detria Davu Douglas Sutton Guye Davis Hashim Jabar Imani Alcantara Jawana Msola Juan Mitchell, Sr. Kemi Craddock Kerri Oates

Kindu Shabazz Leroy Craddock Manuel Tejeda Michael Davu Omawali Stewart Queen Sutton Ralph Simon Shannon Winston Sharon Scipio Simshindo Msola Sumayyah Simon Vanessa Fitzgerald Zakiya Sankara-Jabar

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Contact us National / International Coordinator:  (404) 201-2356  o f f i c e @a y a e d .c o m  h t t p s ://w w w .a y a e d .c o m  852 Brafferton PL Stone Mountain GA 30083 United States of America Follow us: @w e k e s a m a d z i m o y o @madzimoyo @m a d z i m o y o