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 across many endeavors. Email: [email protected] • thesoultown.com Jan. 2020 • Immortalizing Our Stories to Implore Positive Progress In Our Communities • thesoultown.com 53