A Good Friday story of redemptionKendall QuallsSix years ago, I spoke at a college campus in Minnesota during one of the most turbulent moments in recent American history. The country was reeling from the death of George Floyd and the subsequent riots across the country. Emotions were high. Division was everywhere. My talk addressed the […]
Black Families Matter: Reclaiming a Community in Crisis is a forthcoming 90-minute feature documentary from Freedom’s Journal Institute that confronts the dominant narrative attributing the disintegration of the Black family to slavery, Jim Crow, and systemic racism. Instead, the film reveals how government policies and social engineering accelerated family breakdown and generational dysfunction. Yet this […]
Charlie Kirk was assassinated while doing what he spent his entire brief life doing: warning his generation not to follow current corrupting societal norms and encouraging them to form lasting marriages, have children only within a marriage, and re-embrace their Christian faith.
Black leaders’ fail to acknowledge a crime and its deepest rootsKendall QuallsThe recent attacks by a mob of black people on a white man and woman in Cincinnati rate as among the most disgusting, inhuman, and shameful acts I have seen in a very long time. What makes the violent attacks even worse is hearing […]
When it comes to crime, the left and especially the media can’t help but create race narratives, whether they turn out to be true or not. Media coverage of two recent crimes — a Cincinnati brawl and a Manhattan shooting — seemed to focus more on the race of the participants than the bigger issues […]
Converting our community from blind to freeKendall QuallsIt was a hot and muggy July weekend in New York City when my daughter and other members of our church choir traveled to perform at Carnegie Hall, right in the heart of Manhattan. This special event, “Amazing Grace: From Blind to Free,” was a tribute celebrating the […]
An Easter call for renewalAs we approach Easter Sunday, it is time for native black Americans, especially descendants of American slaves, to conduct a self-reflection on the current state of affairs within black culture.It is time to admit that after 60 years of the post-Civil Rights movement, American black culture has collapsed to a godless, […]
Rebuilding the family for a successful futureOn February 7, I published an article on this platform, “A Declaration for Revival and Restoration,” encouraging black Americans to join our organization, TakeCharge. This initiative seeks to transcend political affiliations and invite black Americans to a back-to-basics movement—one that honors our ancestors, rebuilds a functional black culture, and […]
A movement for family, education, and faithKendall Qualls and TakeCharge – Original article published in the Journal of Free Black ThoughtWe the People, descendants of American black slaves, hereby make a public declaration to recommit to our Christian faith and heritage. In so doing, we denounce the misguided leadership of legacy Civil Rights organizations, which […]
Plenty of people can tell you what America’s problems are. But who’s talking about what America’s future could be? Kendall Qualls, president of TakeCharge, presents a vision that’s closer than you think.