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Click the photo to explore our evolving, easy-to-read blogs honoring our past, confronting our present, exploring our multiverses, and shaping our future. Our goal is to motivate and equip every reader to evolve into a Newbeing.
Because we are part of the tech world, we embrace the audacity and intelligence to revise, improve, and iterate again and again. Each blog is a living work in progress. Revisions are marked at the end of the title, such as v1.02.
America Has Paid Reparations Before. Why Are Black Americans Still Waiting? By Thee Rev. Futurist Erskine Robert Matthews
From slavery to Black Wall Street, from broken promises to generations of government studies, America’s unpaid debt to Black Americans is not a mystery. It is a matter of political will. America knows how to pay reparations. It has demonstrated that ability…
The Audacity of Metaphorical Thinking: A Living Anthology By Thee Rev. Futurist Erskine Matthews
It is 12:57 am Saturday morning Friday night 10/10/2026. What follows is an evolving collection of metaphors, similes, parables, short fables, affirmations, inspirations, brief poems, and other reflections. Some are wholly original. Others may have begun as fragments…
Why the Raven Is the Official Bird of Newbeings 1619. By Thee Rev. Futurist Erskine Robert Matthews
For centuries, ravens have appeared in folklore as omens of darkness, death, and misfortune. Even a gathering of ravens has been poetically called an unkindness or a conspiracy, names that reflect centuries of suspicion surrounding this remarkable bird. Yet science…
If the Archive Lied, Why Is Black Memory on Trial? The Case for Black American Oral History as Evidence. By Thee Rev. Futurist Erskine Matthews
Who Decided That Written History Was Automatically More Trustworthy? For generations, Black Americans have been asked to prove our history using records created by institutions that often had little interest in recording our experiences accurately. A document written…
We Do Not Need Another Charismatic Leader. We Need Conscious Mastery. By Thee Rev. Futurist Erskine Matthews. v1.0
For generations, Black Americans have demonstrated an extraordinary ability to assess reality, adapt under pressure, recognize danger, create opportunity, build culture, and move forward even when the available resources were limited. We have done this in families,…
The Self-Sabotage of Scattered Power: A Year of Missed Destiny v1.5
The architects of Project 2025 executed their blueprint relentlessly in 2025, transforming ideological doctrine into tangible, disruptive reality. Their disciplined unity stands in stark, damning contrast to our own continued fragmentation and inaction. Witnessing…
AI for Black Empowerment: How Newbeings 1619 Forecasts Change
Newbeings 1619 is actively shaping a transformative model for Black empowerment by harnessing advanced artificial intelligence (AI). The organization collects, analyzes, and forecasts social, cultural, and economic realities with real-time precision. Rather than…
eXodus: From Chains to Triumph
The Black American experience stands as a profound testament to resilience in the face of relentless systemic erasure. From the brutalities of slavery to the insidious mechanisms of modern gentrification, Black communities have endured cyclical displacement—their…
The Calculus of Resistance: Strategic Restraint in the Age of Project 2025
In the crucible of 2025, with Project 2025’s sweeping policies threatening civil liberties under the guise of “restoration,” Black Americans are confronting an old question with a new answer: When is marching forward actually stepping into a trap?…