Our programs, projects and efforts historically have always addressed the comprehensive, wholistic and institutional concerns. Just to list a few of our past victories and struggles and our (you included) impact on change:
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• Hosea Campus Torres---Police Brutality case |
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• Mobilization of the A.L.D. African Liberation Support Committee |
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• Hosted the first citywide Kwanzaa celebration - It was the beginning of the celebration in Houston and the state of Texas |
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• Affirmative Action (voters mobilization) |
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• Election of Houston 's First Black Mayor (we mobilized the people to go to the polls non-partisan) |
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• Anti-Apartheid Movement—Winnie Mandela visits S.H.A.P.E. |
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• The Freedom of Nelson Mandela |
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• S.H.A.P.E. representative served as an International Observer during the election of Nelson Mandela for the Presidency |
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• S.H.A.P.E. representative helped to organize the Million Man March and Million Family March |
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• Pan African Cultural Festival (originally only 50 participants, within 26 years has reached 50,000) |
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• Part of the efforts to build the Third Ward Multi-Service Center |
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• Helped to organize, mobilize, plan and make possible for Clarence Brandley to be “Free” from Death Row - He is now a productive citizen |
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• Byron Gillian and Ida Delaney Case - S.H.A.P.E. partly responsible for the officers' conviction and firing (discharging) from Department |
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• Assisted with the birth of Kuumba House Dance Theatre |
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• Assisted New Body's development and helped to bring together progressive wholistic health activists |
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• Over 25,000 youth have benefited from S.H.A.P.E.'s programs directly |
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• Help with the efforts to keep Texas Southern University alive |
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• Organized Community watch programs for six schools within the city |
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• Co-founder of the Third Ward Community Cloth Co-operative |
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• Helped with the and initial development of National Black United Front Local Chapter |
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• Over 200 press conferences held at S.H.A.P.E. addressing issues of injustice, discrimination, new programs, birth of programs, etc. |
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• Major participant in hellping victims of Katrina & Rita natural and manmade diaster, housing, food, clothing, etc. Over 400 families assisted. |
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• Hosted Dick Gregory, Winnie Mandela, Martin Luther King III, Rubin Hurricane Carter, Maluana Karenga the Creator of Kwanzaa, Kalimu Ya Salaam, Dr. Sebi, Dr. Africa, and other great historians |
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• S.H.A.P.E. representatives attended the First Congress of African People |
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• Mobilized over 500 people to attend the Million Man March |
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• Hosted book signing and lecture for the First Black Woman Medical Examiner in the USA |
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• Designed and created “Our Park” |
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• Founder and operator of the longest running Fruit and Vegetable Co-op in Houston |
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• People United Against Police Brutality Movement city wide |
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• Hosted over 100 wholistic food workshops at S.H.A.P.E. |
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• Hosted over 50 Health Fairs and 18 Wholistic Health Workshops |
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The above list represents merely a handful of victories that you have made possible by supporting S.H.A.P.E.. There is neither time nor space that will allow us to list them all. We hope that you feel your life has been touched in some positive way by S.H.A.P.E. and its programs.
