The Soultown! Volume IV: Issue 1 JANUARY 2020 | Page 3
Beautiful Readers of The Soultown,
January,
Happy 3rd Anniversary to The Soultown Magazine!
EDITOR’S
Editor's Note
The first month of the year and a perfect time to set, reset and get things in motion. Forward motion.
Be it the mad introspection examined in Just Call Me Tyra, or challenging the dynamics of parenting
adults into adulthood in The Sankofa Vow, The Soultown readers will be given much to ponder. Just as
Rogette does in his challenge to leadership on the hot-button issue of gun violence.
The Griot poses poetic examination of the errs of our past, casting wicked into what is not known,
resonates like the peal of the bell our Faith Enthusiast uncovers in a new congregation. Dear Gabby
and Big Q are polarized by a reader’s question -- one that made me think -- about sharing time with
family and loved ones
Twins speak to truths examined in celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s memory with a keynote
address from a local center formerly named for the fallen civil rights leader, and how his dream lives on
within each of us. Moving, again, forward -- then bringing the past to the present with Meme’s Recipe
of Black-Eyed Peas that makes my mouth water --
the taste of Soul.
Let us also do more than pay passing homage
to the memory of the Reverend Doctor whose
name gives most of us a day off from work or
and school. Is his memory prompting action
or reflection in our lives? The answer to that
question can resonate as profoundly as his life
has...or has it? We are his legacy; what are we
doing with it?
Engage in this month’s issue and with your -- our
community. It’s how we’ll keep this moving ...
forward.
I am Haisan 2X, Truth Seeker and Editor
of The Soultown Magazine. I’d like to
wish everyone a Happy New Year
and thank everyone for having
SOUL! ,
HAISAN 2X
Haisan 2X is a lifelong student, supplicant, and Cubs fan. He is an only brother, an only son and sire to only one. Genuine and reflective; indefatigable and passionate, his energies spread
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