THE TRANSFORMATIONAL AGENDA MAGAZINE TIME for TrANSforMATIoNDownload Today Your Online Edition of: The Transformational Agenda Magazine TTAMAG.com Because WOKE alone is not ENOUGH!2 4 16 TIME FOR TRANSFORMATION GREATNESS BEYOND BELIEF! TRUMPED AT THE END! THE TRUE POWER OF HIDDEN FIGURES 11 WE ARE WOKE, BUT TRUMPED 38 DEAR MR. PRESIDENT... 18 THE ANCESTORS HAVE SPOKEN iPhone or Andriod App — www.black-pages.com -1- -2- | The Transformational Agenda Magazine — TTAMAG.com The 25th! We thank every advertiser, every consumer, every reader of the magazine, as well as every affiliate, administrator, salesperson, distributor, writer, photographer, and graphic artist—for our consistent excellence is simply a direct reflection of your excellence. The last few years have been amazing for African Americans, especially for St. Louisans. Our racial upheaval was long overdue. Our national image damaged. Yet, we can now demonstrate to America exactly how racial reconciliation can be achieved—or not. Are you aware that one of every two persons in combined St. Louis City and County north of Highway I-64, are African American? We are HALF! Our consumer dollars represent profit or loss, success or failure. It is time that we love ourselves enough to embrace our African-American business owners; and to only patronize those that desire, value and appreciate our business, who also hire our sons and daughters. So, download your Black Pages Business Directory app for iPhone or Android, enjoy The Transformational Agenda Magazine in all its beauty and substance at www. TTAMAG.com, and visit www.Black-Pages.com. We are WOKE. Thus, both conscious of and willing to protest inequities—even in front of the barrel of a gun, or with teargas sprayed into our eyes, or by closing major highways. How brave, how proud, how defiant! Yet, WOKE alone is not ENOUGH! Now it is Time for Transformation. The logical extension of now being WOKE is to act in our best interest and to minister to one another with love, knowing that love will always overcome evil—when love acts to! It is time to value ourselves, and to love ourselves, and for our actions to demonstrate that love. When we accomplish this, we will have made love into a powerful tool of our healing and transformation. Heal at every level: yourself, your immediate family, your school and other institutions. This we can do. We have been programmed to believe that we cannot, but that is just a humongous lie. We are little pieces of God and capable of whatever we believe we can manifest. So, choose to claim the greatness that is inside of you. Then, do something to help heal our community! Decide what you care about the most, and then find or help create a worthy voluntary service opportunity. Dig in for the long haul knowing that you WILL make a difference. This way we will create a healing community of love and thrive beyond our wildest dreams. We at the Black Pages Business Directory and Transformational Agenda Magazine are TOTALLY COMMITTED to working ceaselessly for a healing transformation of our community, during the next 25 years! Vickie M. Denson Howard D. DensoniPhone or Andriod App — www.black-pages.com -3- Time for Transformation Tangela OatisJohn FergusonSylvia LockettStephanie BentonKeith Griffin, II HOWARD D. DENSON Editor & Publisher VICKIE M. DENSON President & CEOPRESIDENT OBAMA LITERALLY SAVED THE WORLD FOR CAPITALISM. George Bush left the economy in shambles. It appeared that another Great Depression was all but certain. The economy fell 8%, 8 million jobs were lost, housing values dropped 30%, 25% of the cumulative wealth of Americans was lost, unemployment doubled to 10%, financial markets in the U.S. and around the world were collaps- ing, two of three American auto manufacturers were ready to close their doors, and many of the major banks came within days of failing. This was his welcome wagon. With calm grace and a sure hand, this incredible brother guided America back from the brink of disaster. PRESIDENT OBAMA STIMULATED THE ECONOMY TO THE TUNE OF $800,000,000,000. Serious money was invested in basic scientific research, renewable energy, computer- ized health care, modernizing the electric grid, and building roads and bridges. Every one of these invest- ments will pay huge long-term benefits. He didn’t waste the crisis, he invested for the future, knowing that the benefits would not be felt during his presidency. The brother took the long view for the benefit of all. History should absolutely love him for these investments. OUR PRESIDENT PASSED THE AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE ACT! As many as 22,800,000 Americans received healthcare for the first time. Now, why would Republicans want to return to medical- expense bankruptcies, those with preexisting conditions being uninsurable, and Americans dying from the lack of healthcare? AS PROMISED, PRESIDENT OBAMA GOT US OUT OF IRAQ AND SUBSTANTIALLY OUT OF AFGHANISTAN. Two wars, that almost all agree, American should not have started. PRESIDENT OBAMA WON THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR GOODNESS SAKE! YET, THE DEMOCRATS COULD NOT PROTECT THE ELECTION GAINS OF 2008, ALLOWING REPUBLICANS TO ROAR BACK INTO POWER! Between President Obama entering and leaving office, Democrats have lost 13 Senate seats, 69 House seats, 11 governorships, 30 state legislative chambers, and a whopping 913 state legislative seats, according to analysis from the Washington Post. 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