Young Ambitious Minds

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Family and Friends Thanks for all your support for our Christmas Fundraiser. Young Ambitious Minds.

Our Nonprofit organization is hosting a charitable fundraiser to benefit teenage mothers and expectant mothers. We rely on your support to make this Christmas season brighter for those in need. Donations can be made through our website: https://www.yamnj.org/make-a-donation-1

Our Nonprofit organization is hosting a charitable fundraiser to benefit teenage mothers and expectant mothers. We rely on your support to make this Christmas season brighter for those in need. Donations can be made through our website: https://www.yamnj.org/make-a-donation-1

We continue to be in service to our community and one another.

In the hustle and bustle of the day many of our children are too easily labeled and dismissed as being “bad.” Even those with the best intentions can sometimes misinterpret a child’s actions. As adults it is our responsibility to stop in that moment and ask ourselves what are we missing? Did we miss a trigger? Do we know and understand the antecedent or root of the behavior & emotion? Whether you have a child with or without special needs, children have tough days. Sometimes they grow frustrated when they can’t communicate what they need or want. Sometimes they are frustrated because they do not understand what is being asked of them. Sometimes, like us they are just having a tough day navigating their emotions and/or environment. Let’s help them through those moments. Give them a safe place to learn, grow and ask for help. Advocate for them - always.

Eatonville, six miles from Orlando, was one of the first all-black towns incorporated in the U.S. after the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation that ended slavery. It was founded by 27 men on land adjacent to Maitland (FL) sold by a white former Union Army captain, Josiah Eaton, with the intention that it become a city of black self-government. Calling itself "The Town That Freedom Built," Eatonville today boasts that it's the "Oldest Incorporated African American Municipality in America.

Eatonville was also home to internationally acclaimed author, anthropologist, and filmmaker Zora Neale Hurston. As such, it served as the setting in many of her stories, including the most popular, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Each year, Eatonville hosts the Zora Neal Hurston Festival of Arts and Humanities in her honor.

Eatonville's road to municipality and self-governing was hard fought. The founding of this town represents a historic achievement for African Americans.

Eatonville, six miles from Orlando, was one of the first all-black towns incorporated in the U.S. after the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation that ended slavery. It was founded by 27 men on land adjacent to Maitland (FL) sold by a white former Union Army captain, Josiah Eaton, with the intention that it become a city of black self-government. Calling itself "The Town That Freedom Built," Eatonville today boasts that it's the "Oldest Incorporated African American Municipality in America.

Eatonville was also home to internationally acclaimed author, anthropologist and filmmaker, Zora Neale Hurston. As such, it served as the setting in many of her stories, including the most popular, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Each year, Eatonville host the Zora Neal Hurston Festival of Arts and Humanities in her honor.

Eatonville's road to municipality and self-governing was hard fought. The founding of this town represents a historic achievement for African Americans.

During the spring of 1961, an in*******al group of student activists from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) launched the Freedom Rides to test the 1960 Supreme Court decision, Boynton v. Virginia that ruled the segregation of interstate transportation facilities, including bus terminals unconstitutional. They did so by traveling on buses from Washington, D.C., to Jackson, Mississippi. The riders were met with extreme violence in the Deep South. The violence and arrests continued to garner national and international attention, and drew hundreds of new Freedom Riders to the cause. The rides continued over the next several months, and in the fall of 1961, under pressure from the Kennedy administration, the Interstate Commerce Commission issued regulations prohibiting segregation in interstate transit terminals.