If you desire to measure productivity improvements, we can tailor monitoring instruments for your review and evaluation on a periodic basis.

If your organization has diagnostic instruments in place, we can review them from a different perspective to offer you a culturally diverse interpretation.

THE KWANZAA GALLERY, INC.
1419 Champion Pines Lane
Augusta, Georgia 30909-5526

ABOUT THE FOUNDERS

The Kwanzaa Gallery, Inc. is a family owned, nonprofit corporation, created to address the issues and concerns that affect the capability of the African American people to contribute toward a productive, cohesive, diverse society.

Frank M. Johnson, Founder and CEO, is a graduate of Kansas State University. A decorated military Vietnam Era veteran, has majored in Business Organizational and Human Resource Management. Mr. Johnson is a co-founder of the Augusta Black Chamber of Commerce, the Augusta Summit of African American Business Enterprises, the CSRA African American Association, and graduate of the Department of Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute.

Rhonda J. Johnson is an honor graduate of the Brown Mackie Business College in Wichita, Kansas. She possesses 20 years experience in business administration and personal creative endeavors.

Joy Y. Johnson is a dual degree honor graduate of Augusta State University. She majored in Political Science and Media Communications. A licensed paralegal, Joy is owner of Johnson Paralegal Service and co-founder of the Augusta Black Chamber of Commerce.

Frank M. Johnson II is manager of the Music Gallery and President of the Young Entrepreneurs Association while attending Augusta State University.

1419 Champion Pines Lane
Augusta, GA 30909
706-737-4747 TEL
706-787-1467 FAX

 
CHARTER MEMBER
Augusta Black Chamber of Commerce

CHARTER MEMBER
Augusta Summit of African American Business Entities

Member
Metro Augusta Chamber of Commerce

Member
CSRA African American Association

There is a significant amount of social change occurring within the African-American community that could effect your operations. The African-American people are reengineering themselves. There is an increased awareness that they are not being challenged by the major organizations in many localities to achieve their full potential. These organizations, predominantly, are neither owned or controlled by African Americans. The benefits derived by these organizations rarely finds its way into our financial institutions that meet their needs to become self-sufficient. African-American communities, in the search for a standard of living, have become saturated with resulting frustration, violence and crime; as a result is finding new creative energy to find success. Change is a good and necessary thing. It does not have to be disruptive or violent.

You can, if you choose, be a healing agent who realizes a productive benefit of doing so.

A Word on History

The Kingdom of Judah was half the Nation of Israel when the Kingdom was divided after the death of Solomon. The persecution of Israel did not stop with the Assyrians, Babylonian or the Roman conquest. Rather it continued long after the temple was destroyed and the people banned from the land.

To escape the persecution Israelis dispersed from the homeland of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Some northward into Europe were they were assailed for centuries. Many into Africa where they were assaulted for centuries, as well, but not in recorded histories. Caught between Islam, Arabia, Asia and Rome, The Kingdom of Judah ventured deep into the southern and western regions of African to escape persecution. They suppressed their identities to avoid detection and evade the assaults. After generations passed their identity was lost, although some traditions and ceremonies were retained, however, even these made them recognizable to persecutors from other religions. Being identifiable raiders and slave traders attacked and captured any village( r) with traces of being faithful to Mosaic Law, and not converted to Roman Catholicism.

The West Africans, kidnapped into slavery were descendants of the Kingdom of Judah, dispersed into Africa by war and anti-Semitism. They were delivered into slavery in Europe and the New World Americas. The remnants of their identity, in traditions and rituals, were forbidden by law, with severe punishment imposed. Their languages and means of communicating were outlawed. Neighbors, friends and families were separated in the passage to the new world where the complete eradication of identity, memory and history succumbed to being lost in time.

Often the hatred and discriminatory treatment cast against African Americans was thought to be because of "racism", however, this reveal a darker side of the maltreatment. If mistreated solely due to race, the maltreatment is not equitable. Other races whom often find favorable treatment for no other reason to avoid the stigma of racial favoritism and discrimination. The non- preferential treatment experience by African Americans is persistent and relentless in its intent to disenfranchise and weaken the black people. Why??

Perhaps not due solely to race, but to race and religious heritage. Unlike the European Diaspora, the intact religious practice is the discriminator, whereas the African Diaspora there was much less miscegenation, leaving only the skin color and dislocated placement as differentiates for identification purposes. It the same persecution, with different criteria. Its not our race, but us: our history, heritage, potential and significance to prophetic fulfillment that is being relentlessly assailed.

The promised restoration of the Nation of Israel, begun in 1949, has recovered many of the Israelis descendents abroad in Europe. They are returning in droves to the homeland. However, the promised restoration, signified by the reunification of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah will not be complete until the lost tribes of Judah are recovered and restored to Israel.