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Motivational Speaker on Health, Wealth, and Cultural Enrichment Community Activist Organizer
UNIA-ACL 3rd Assistant President General
Radio Talk Show Host
Health Practitioner/Visionary

Senghor J. Baye was born and raised in Wash. DC on Oct. 28th, 1951. He has one older brother and sister. He attended DC Public Schools and the University of the District of Columbia. Senghor is the youngest in his generation both on his mother and fathers sides of his family He is the father of 3 beautiful daughters and has three grandsons. Senghor is a very spiritual person and has studied many religions, cultures and customs of the world. He is very aware and committed to his African and Native American ancestral roots in the Cherokee/Moorish/ and Nubian traditions.

Senghor worked as a Guidance Councilor In the DC Public Schools for 4 years, and in 1975 as the registered agent co-founded Stop America From Eating the Young Inc. S.A.F.E.T.Y. Inc. a non profit 501 C 3 tax except youth advocacy corporation, later in the 1980's renamed Sound Action For Enlightening the Young and today named Medissage Inc, now located at Noah's Ark, a 135 acre estate in South Carolina, with other locations around the world. He Co-founded Community Based Buying Clubs Inc. and S.S.C.B.C. Sure Savings Collective Buying Clubs that operated between 1980 to 1994.

Currently Senghor is serving his 3rd four year term of office as the 3rd Assistant President General on the Parent Body Executive Council of the Universal Negro Improvement Association-ACL, founded by Marcus Garvey in 1914. Today the UNIA-ACL is lead by the 8th successor to Garvey, President General Hon. Redman Battle. He also has served as the District 3 Commissioner of DC, MD, & VA since 1989 in the UNIA-ACL of the world. Between 1985 and 1987 he served as the UNIA-ACL Co-Chairman of the Centennial Commemoration Committee of the Right Excellent Marcus Mosiah. Garvey Centennial was held in Kingston, Jamaica in August 1987 Garvey's birth place. Senghor was an active member of the Woodson-Banneker/Jackson-Bey Div. 330 of the UNIA-ACL between 1980 and 2006 in Washington DC. He is currently a member of the King BaBa Kamau/Queen Mother James Div. 332 of the UNIA-ACL in Wash. DC Senghor is the Managing Editor of the Garvey's Voice Newspaper and the UNIA-ACL Parent Body Representative on Reparations.

Senghor served as elder organizer and consultant for the Young Lions Rites of Passage Program for Roots Activity Learning Center. Since April 2004 he has hosted an internet radio program Black Star Lion 9 Time on Harambee Radio and he is currently working with www.movementunes.com as a promoter for artist of all types. He has been a poet for the last 38 years and has a great concern for postive music and artistic expressions. He is very interested in supporting and helping people of African descent become more self-reliant, self determine, and independent towards regaining their historical roots and traditional greatness of sovereignty. He loves working with and for youth whom need more love and respect in the world, so they can grow to respect and love the world and become positive contributors to the 21st century.

Senghor is employed at the National Association of Social Workers national office in Wash. DC where he has been for the last 18 years as a Credentials/Records Clerk in the Office of Quality Assurance & Membership Records. He is the Chairman of the Board and founding member of Black Star Enterprises LLC. He is a Marketing Representative for Black Star Lion Artist Association a marketing agency for positive musicians and artist. In addition to his full time employment and works with several coporations, Senghor is a Distributor for the New MATTAH Movement, which has over 300 products manufactured by blacks to help reverse our consumption spending and help build economic independence for the African community.

He served for several years as a founding board member of the Cooperative Economic Development Corporation (C.E.D.C.). He also worked as a volunteer Mentor with the Kijiji Wazee RAP Inc. Mentoring Program. Currently he is a member of the Nubian Intl. Hand Dance Association and the National Hand Dance Association where he is able to express is fond love for good music and dance socially. Senghor was a youth consultant for the 1995 Million Man March organized in Wash. DC where over 2.5 million people attended. Between Feb. 2002 and August 2002 he served on the National Organizing Committee of MFR and also as Co-Chair of the DC Steering Committee for the Millions for Reparations demonstration, which was held in Wash. DC on August 17th, 2002 on Garvey's 115th birthday anniversary.

As a vibrate Motivational Speaker on Health, Wealth, and Cultural Enrichment Senghor will uplift, inform, and educate you and your organization, school, or social group towards positive action. His background knowledge, organization skills, and his ability to evoke humor in all his presentations regardless of the topic and how serious it may be, can and will be inspiring to youth as well as adults from all backgrounds. Senghor a solid beleaver in MAAT and the principles of Peace, Love and Prosperity truly speaks truth to power and would be and excellant positive speaker at your next event. For more detail information he can be reached at: 202-829-7204 office 202-256-2518 mobile or senghorb@hotmail.com For info on the UNIA-ACL go to http://www.unia-acl.org/ or www.myspace.com/unia_ldc

Heru

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Heru pleads, he beckons, he coaxes, he emboldens, he soothes, he befriends, Heru sings. Internal tears flowing... Heru's strength is in his sensitivity. I could say the brother is strong in his blackness. But that would be another jive cliche. Heru is our ancestors. He is their memory speaking to our consciousness. He is the vibration of their words when they spoke to the Being of Forever." --Written by Umar Bin Hassan, of the legendary poetry group, The Last Poets.

Every now and then, an artist appears that not only excites, but also inspires and uplifts. The time is now; the artist is Heru. He came to America from Ghana, West Africa when only a child. He learned English as a necessity, never knowing that it would be a tool he would later use to affect the consciousness of those who would hear him. The name Heru is an ancient African Kemetan (Egyptian) name, found in the first trinity of Ausar-Auset-Heru (Osiris-Isis-Horus). Heru is metaphorically the ancient redeemer and ancestral avenger.

When Heru arrived to the American shores, the image of Africa was so thoroughly propagandized that young pre-school children called him "African booty snatcher" and "jungle boy". However, as time passed, he was accepted because he excelled in athletics. He soon realized that in the Western culture, black people are classified as either dumb under-developed niggers or the super-nigger who can leap over tall buildings. These experiences in the early American school system contributed to creating an early consciousness towards supporting and defending the underdog while educating and uplifting his people. In later school years, Heru discovered his innate ability to formulate words in a way that provokes the conscience. Heru experienced all different genres of music, but had an epiphany when he discovered Reggae music while browsing through his father's record collection. Consequently, he honed his craft of writing with a depth of consciousness that only he at the time could understand.

Heru began to experience power of words as he became involved in political activism in Boston where he attended Tufts University where he received a Bachelor's of Science in Biopsychology. He also saw the power of performance when he played the lead in a South African anti-apartheid play called "Sizwe Bansi is Dead."

After undergraduate studies, Heru entered law school, where his studies and work experience brought him face to face with direct and indirect discrimination. In law school, he met people who were constantly harassed and/or denied jobs, housing and public accommodations because of who they were and the historical continuity of economic warfare against their skin color and culture. It was at this time that Heru formed a cultural band, Thinketh Man Rescue. During his performances it became evident that the best way to make a difference was through artistic political expression.

After graduating from Northeastern University School of Law, where he received a Juris Doctorate, Heru relocated from Boston to Florida, leaving his band mates behind. In Miami, he continued the delivery of his messages through spoken word expressions. The response that he received continues to be overwhelming. He never dreamed that his creative yet political expressions would be accepted and applauded by thousands of people.

As an artist, Heru is committed to telling the truth regardless of consequence. In his piece, Tell Lie Vision, Heru exposes the negative effect that television has on the development of the mind. In Rotten to the Core, he refers to the socio-political dilemmas in American democracy as witnessed through recent Presidential elections. These in your face truths can be heard on Heru's masterful CDs, complete with interviews. His spoken word CDs, are titled "Volume 1: Mystery School" and "Volume 2: The Nephew of Nebthet." In 2004, He released his third CD, "Volume 3: African Mathematics."

All CDs are receiving plenty of air play- a rarity for spoken word. Heru is also busy on the road as his performances are in demand. He has shared stage billing with the legendary Last Poets, Sonia Sanchez and rap group Dead Prez, as well as with Reggae veterans Mutabaruka, Freddie McGregor, Marcia Griffiths, U-Roy, Gregory Isaacs, Alton Ellis, Cocoa Tea and Everton Blender.

Whenever Heru performs, he takes the audience off guard. As the audience is used to the usual song and dance routine, they are elated and uplifted by Heru's words and performance. It is clear Heru will be a mainstay in the entertainment and education industry. His lyrical content will make you wonder why some other artists even put pen to paper.