Wednesday, February 1, 2023 We had our regular Morning Lifeline Prayer, Scripture Reading, Affirmations, Testimonies, and viewing the world. Our first thought in the Morning Affirmation for the week: The Lord is blessing me right now I believe God I am abundantly blessed and eternally grateful This is our standard capturing the first thoughts in the morning affirmation. Our weekly meditation was I met with one of my typist assistants, Ms. Sharman Blake. We worked on computerizing my old speeches, sermons, articles, etc. This Wednesday we worked on a sermon I preached a long time ago entitled, The Demonic in Systems and Institutions. My other typist assistant, we worked on computerizing prayers from the past. In the evening we had Timbuktu Learning Center, our teacher Sis. Leslie’s subject this Wednesday was healing through herbs, spices, and organic foods in comparison to healing via traditional methods of medicines. She makes it very clear every Wednesday that she is providing information and that persons should check with their doctors or caregivers before making any change in their eating habits. She has had phenomenal success as evidenced by persons who call in testifying to the success of their life changes as a result of taking heed to the information she provides. Thursday, February 2, 2023 We had our usual morning prayer, telephone ministry and business. For a portion of the day, it is set aside to deal with telephone calls which include business and counseling, also prayer. This particular Thursday, I would like to tell you an interesting experience which is kind of instructive. I was packing and getting ready to travel when I received a phone call from one of my daughters, indicating that while we were at a meeting on Monday, one of the persons called her and said she has tested positive for Covid-19. My daughter urged that I get tested and that she would send a home-testing kit to me. My wife indicated that she would be coming home early and she would bring the kit. After the conversation with my daughter, I began to feel chills, aching and discomfort. So I decided that I would do my food medication which includes garlic, apple cider vinegar and I make a HD special and it consists of a tablespoon of flaxseed, chia seeds, hemp hearts, turmeric powder and green matcha powder, about 6tbsp medium-sized cloves of garlic and 6 tbsp of organic olive oil. So, I stir this and consume at least 4 teaspoons with my evening lunch/dinner with a tomato or avocado, red peppers and onions. Then I decided to go to bed early, 7pm to be exact and had a good night sleep. There is no Timbuktu on Thursday & Friday. Only Monday - Wednesday so I had a free evening and went to bed early. Friday, February 3, 2023 I woke up at my usual time at 5am and got up at 5:30am, did my usual exercises and was ready for the 7-8am Lifeline prayer time. Lifeline lasted unusually long even until 8:30 am. I spoke at length about gratitude and we reviewed Sunday service which will be housed in Jersey City. My point is that I felt my usual vibrant energized self. I didn’t feel that I had contracted the virus. Now the question is how much did the information about the virus from my daughter influence my thinking. I seemed to be alright until she mentioned my being in the presence of someone with the virus. It raises the question; how much are we influenced by what we think and the information that we receive? So, we should be very careful about the information we convey to people. This does not mean that we should withhold truthful or vital or necessary information. It just means that information that brings unwanted news to a person should be carefully thought through how to convey the information. Saturday, February 4, 2023 Early in the morning, I attended the Saturday meeting at the National Action Network and shared a few words. Later on I posted on Facebook: Happy Birthday Rosa Parks I shudder to think where we would be with out you. You are a courageous woman. We may not appreciate how much bravery it took to do what you did. I was born in the south and spent the first eleven years of my life in the south, and any one who lived in or visited, know what refusing to obey the segregation laws could mean-jail or worse. She was born Feb. 4, 1913 transition led on Oct. 24, 2005. In the photo: Left to right, former Assembly man Roger Green, Ms. Parks, myself, Bishop Huie Rogers. It was taken at the House of the Lord Churches. Sunday, February 5, 2023 Sunday, we had our prayer with the basketball players. I did not do the weekly words of wisdom nor did I do the 8:45am Men’s prayer and discussion. This Sunday, the first Sunday of the month, we worship in the church building in Jersey City. This meant that I had to travel some distance to be there on time. We are worshiping at 322 Duncan Avenue (Community Room) Jersey City, NJ 07306. I was pleased with the attendance. I was especially glad to see several brothers that we had made them the focus of our morning prayers. They have had incarceration experience. One brother had been away for 36 years. My sermon topic was the God of another chance. I used the 8th chapter of Saint John's selected verses. It is the story of a woman who was caught in adultery. Moses and the law had said that such should be stoned to death. The Pharisees had brought this woman to Jesus and inquired what he would do. They were up to their old entrapment schemes. If Jesus said let the woman go free, he would’ve violated the law made by Moses. But if he said stone her, he would be contrary to His own teachings of mercy and forgiveness rather than ask the question, Jesus stooped down and began to write on the ground. And then he asked, "He that is without sin cast the first stone.” There were no stones thrown except the stones in their hands that they intended to stone the woman to death with were dropped on the ground and they disappeared. When Jesus asked, “where are your accusers?” she said, “they are gone.” Jesus responded, “Neither do I accuse you, go in peace and sin no more.” Jesus gave the woman another chance and I emphasize that Jesus gives all of us another chance not forgiveness for the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth chance but Jesus gives us another chance. I did an interpretation that addressed our People of African Ancestry history and institutional rock-throwing. I used the rocks in the people’s hands ready to stone as the history of our people who have created institutions, systems, traditions, etc. as rocks to injure, to damage our personalities and even death. While it is true many of us are guilty of some crime or violation. but the people who have created systems that lock us into circumstances and situations which makes it almost impossible not to commit offenses. When you hate yourself, as Malcolm X says “the greatest crime a white man has committed was to teach us to hate ourselves.” Violence inevitably follows self-violence to the use of destructive substances, violence against the people who look like us, and also complete dependency on the people with the rocks in their hands. But Jesus forgave some of us and opened our eyes to the truth, that we are the creators of magnificent civilizations that have been stolen or denied. What EuroEthnics could not steal they fought contempt upon. So, whatever state we’re in, whatever we’ve done we’ve got another chance. The title of the sermon was delivered by Evangelist John Lawrence in Trenton State Correctional Facility in NJ. I had organized a two-week revival. The first time in history. He had befriended me and remained so til the day he died.

Black United Front / National Black United Front marches on the way to 770 Eastern Parkway in the rain and Rally in Crown Heights In the photo from left to right: Chief of Security (in jacket) Yusef Iman Weusi, Segun (in the glasses), Jitu Weusi, Al Vann, Dr. Karen, myself in conversation with someone, Minister Clemson Brown (with the camera) In the photo: A June Rally after the killing of Arthur Miller and Victor Rhodes where I made a statement. For our first anniversary we marched from Downtown Brooklyn to Crown Heights about a mile distance and rallied in front of the Lubavitcher Hasidim Headquarters 770 Eastern Parkway. After which we marched to the 71st precinct on Empire Blvd and New York Avenue. We were caught in a monstrous troika (a three headed monster) there was the police officers who choked Arthur Miller to death on June 14, 1978. Arthur Miller was representative of all the police killings and brutalities. On June 16, 1978 the Hasidim had viciously beaten-up Victor Rhodes to a pulp. Victor was a representative of all the assaults and harassment committed by the Hasidic community. Then there was the racist violence Bloody Summer 1978 already highlighted in Chapter Six of my book No Monopoly on Suffering – Crown Heights. By 1978, in Crown Heights, the Lubavitcher Hasidim had usurped the turf that Black people had long considered theirs. I along with other ministers sat up practically all-night pleading with the then, Mayor Abraham Beame, not to change the community dividing lines. The Hasidim wanted Crown Heights to be moved from Atlantic Avenue to Eastern Parkway making Crown Heights smaller thus getting more political clout to the smaller numbers of the Hasidim. Bedstuy would become larger, but it was already overwhelmingly majority Black. In addition, there was nothing new about confrontation with the Hasidim. In a letter to the New York department of Justice, President of the Black Community, Dr. Vernal Cade detailed a long history of abuses. My first encounter with Hasidim occurred in the mid-1960s. I was attending a meeting organized by Black community groups concerned about the Hasidic Maccabees as vigilantes who harassed and attacked Black youngsters.

Monday 1/30/2023 Lifeline Morning Prayer 7am-8am Philadelphia Eagles beat San Francisco 49ers; Kansas City beat Cincinnati so they will play in the SuperBowl in a few weeks. Both teams has a quarterback of African Ancestry: Jalen Hurts of the Philadelphia Eagles, Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs is a mixture. Neither team had a Black coach however, Kansas City has a Black coordinator Kansas City won it in the last session. I am sharing a post that my daughter, Rev. Leah Daughtry wrote on Tyre Nichols and my response: There are things I was going to do today that I will not do today because today I am sitting in my ash heap, picking at my wounds ... Salted by the tears of Tyre's Mama. And George's Mama. And all the Mamas. And the Daddys too. Cause Daddies cry too even if we don't see them ... Read the rest at... https://medium.com/@leahdaughtry/ash-heap-b0139e2a633c My response: Leah, I along with all who were born to lead, know the feeling. We more than others feel the pain of weeping mothers and fathers. You were born the day before the March in Washington as if God wanted you to witness this mighty gathering, United in the demand for freedom. Many of them gone now but the issues for which they gave their lives are still with us. Yes, we are Wounded Healer-bearing the pain of others. Significantly, in post, what you felt came as a result of what happened to others and what they were feeling. You remember, Jesus spoke of Joy, His Joy. It is what keeps us going, paradoxically the JOY OF JESUS, which is to love and serve God and to love the people, to work with and for their well being! #TyreNichols Timbuktu Learning Center Timbuktu - Usual night, our discussion was on Tyre and the important part was during our prayer time, we received a request for prayer. The request was made by someone who had an accident which had him unconscious for a while and he reported that he was under treatment, but his memory was faulty. So we offered assistance with qualified medical people and any other kind of help he may need. But, it is what makes our church and organizing different is that not only do we believe in prayer as evidenced by these various prayer groups that we have. But we believe that they are material things that we could and should do for our supporters and people in need. So I’ll keep you up to date on this accident. Tuesday 1/31/2023 Lifeline Morning Prayer 7am-8am One of my typing assistants caught up with the Traveling & Thinking out Loud. Timbuktu Learning Center History of Violence in the USA In the Timbuktu Learning Center Tuesday nights is history night and reacting to the brutal killing of Tyre Nichols and a long line of other police killings and savage beatings. I reviewed the violence in the USA and going back to slavery. The violence that was visited upon our people during the centuries of violence is too well known to repeat here. So I concentrated on the violence after the Civil war. I reviewed the Supreme Court decisions, the 13th Amendment which freed the slaves. The 14th Amendment which made citizens and the 15th Amendment which gave the right to vote. The Congress passed laws calling for Southern conventions in which all males will have the right to vote. By 1875, there were 16 persons of African Ancestry in the Congress. But the South did not give up, in fact they won the propaganda war while at the same time creating a reign of terror. By the turn of the 19th Century all the games had been rolled back. Whole Black communities across America were destroyed. Black people were killed or seriously wounded, their homes and businesses were destroyed. It seemed the favorite method of inflicting pain and humiliation was hanging. A hanging in many instances was comparable to a picnic. Church was let out early so the parishioners with their children could get to the hanging in time to enjoy every act of torture and pain. Bodies were mutilated, burned and parts of the body were sold as souvenirs. By 1919, what is called Red Summer because of the violence that swept across the country. We all know about Tulsa, OK; Greenwood, FL but there were other communities in Atlanta,GA and Elaine, AK, etc. So by the end of the 19th century the Supreme Court ruled that segregation, separate but equal, was enacted. So segregation and all of its hideous dehumanizing acts became the law of the land. Watch for my book coming out soon, entitled Reflections on the Pandemic 2020-2021 with a special chapter on January 6th Insurrection and violence in the USA.

Friday 1/27/2023 President Zelensky gets his way… sort of President Zelensky, you remember you were pleading for the most sophisticated tanks in the arsenal of Germany and America. But first, he was in the USA a few weeks ago begging for missiles or aircover/shelters to protect against Russian drones and missiles. These attacks by the Russians were devastating the country leaving cities in rubble. Humans were in desperate need of food and water – really the necessities of life. Electrical power had been destroyed in over half of the country. Yet we are told by the American Press and the politicos and the old retired generals that Ukraine is winning the war. So now, Zelensky wants tanks. America had tried to persuade Germany to give President Zelensky what he wanted. But the Germans said to President Biden, you go first. The American administration’s response with that our tanks are too complicated, take too long to learn, difficult to repair, are too costly and does not navigate the terrain of Ukraine very well. The German sophisticated tanks are ideal. The compromise now, America will build a new fleet of tanks that will be more suitable for Ukraine. This seems to satisfy the Germans who did not want to be accused of escalating the war. Now that the Americans will make their tanks available first. It appears that the Germans are prepared to go along with the request for the tanks. What next will President Zelensky be asking for? Nuclear weapons? What kind of hold does President Zelensky have on President Biden and the NATO countries that they dance to his tune? Again we say to the peoples of the world, wake up, become informed, mobilize and organize before it's too late. Sat 1/28/2023 - Saturday is our Report and Organizing Meeting We hear the report on our activities from the various participants. In total there are 14 reports. The introduction which includes the trailer of the Herbert Daughtry Global Ministries and our activities. It is a rather impressive video for it includes local, national and international ventures of activities and organizing by myself, the Rev. Dr. Herbert Daughtry’s participation in rallies, top-level meetings with world leaders. I do the introduction and overall overview of the meeting. The report from the TimbuktuLearning Center which takes place Mon-Wed (7-8:30pm) and a duplication of the Timbuktu which we used to do at the House of the Lord church. But really it was inspired by the Golden Age of Mali, West Africa and the city and University of Timbuktu. During the sessions, Monday night we focus on current events, Tuesday on history and Wednesday on culture. Then we have the 24-hr prayer chain, in which we asked people to choose 5-10 mins for prayer, meditation within the 24hrs by Brother Bill Foster. We also send a weekly inspiration email to our participants. Lifeline prayer 7-8am (Mon-Fri) The Lifeline prayer includes prayer, affirmations, Scripture, testimonies, scanning the world, social media and conclusion. It is coordinated by Chrissy Leak and Genell Leak. Also, they read the Old and New Testament Scriptures, respectively. There is the power of one-liners, a quote by Sis. Delores Pridgen. A family prayer by Minister Joseph Horton, he volunteered to pray for the Daughtry family. I teach the subject what we send out, we get back and so far, as I have initiated many different kinds of prayers, Minister Horton volunteered to pray for my family. Mother Clara Barksdale concludes with an affirmation, “God has given me the power to change the world starting right where I am”. Mother Clara also makes an appeal to the seniors. Climate Change - Pat Udima War and Peace- Rev. Daughtry Augusta, GA- Rev. Marc Smith Here are the various groupings: 1. Our Purpose is threefold. One is to educate and inspire participants, the key in our organizing is participants growth mentally, socially and spiritually. 2. To inform and educate the world on our activities. 3. Recruitment Hopefully these Saturday sessions, seeing the participants and their presentations, will encourage others to join. If our activities do not cover what one wants to do. We invite them to join with us and they can organize if there’s interest we will support it. Our overall goal is to Save the planet, Save the people and we believe that all people want to do good. All people want a reason/purpose for living. We at the HDGM provide the opportunity to meet that desire to Save the planet, Save the people. Dr. Benjamin Mays said, “It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.” Again we provide a dream, vision, goal which people can give their life. Jesus said that he/she that loses their life shall find it, but” in other words God, the Creator has put within us the need to give our lives for great causes, which is to Save the planet, Save the people Sunday 1/29/2023 We had our usual Sunday except we canceled our 845 prayer and I spoke at my daughter Rev. Dr. Dawn Daughtry, Pastor of Englewood, NJ church. Their service starts at 9am via Zoom. For the basketball players and as well as for the church, the horrible beating of Tyre Nichols was on everyone’s mind. The events to which I was engaged, the meeting went in a different direction. We allowed discussion of both basketball and the morning worship in Englewood. I preached for about 10 mins then allowed discussion, my sermon topic was Sad but not Surprised (see my article on Tyre https://www.hdgministries.org/post/tyre-nichols-sad-but-not-suprised. I talked about the police brutality and murder that I have heard about or involved in organizing during my youthful years in Brooklyn and Jersey City and all years of my ministry- 65 years. One of the aspects of the beating was the culprits were Black. It confused and startled many people - particularly people of African Ancestry, but I remember the cruelty of Black police officers. Racism has always attempted, and in many instances succeeded in persuading their victims to believe in their superiority and the victim's inferiority. I remember when there was a special group of policemen who were chosen to participate in a special organization within the police department ostensibly they were organized to fight crime or a particular part of criminal behavior. The officers who shot Amadou Diallo over 50 bullets were fired as he was in the vestibule trying to get to his apartment, killing Amadou. They were members of a specialized police group in their precinct with the slogan “we own the night”. There was a Euro Ethnic group that called themselves the FBI it stood for Full Blooded Italians. And then there was a Black group that called themselves the King Cole Trio. Both of these groups were known to the black community as the brutality squad. They were known to be brutal, mean and nasty. And to pour salt on the wounds, these officers were exonerated. The usual outcome of their murder or brutality was exoneration.

Thursday 1/26/2023 This morning, I took leave of our morning lifeline prayer for Mayor Adams State of the City Address. The speech was scheduled for 12 noon. The doors were open at 11am. It was held at the Queens Theatre in Queens, NY. The theater was packed – standing room only. The Mayor started speaking at 12:40 pm and ended at 1:45pm. There were four points to his message: Jobs, Security, Housing, and Care. He said that New York has invested millions of dollars to create new jobs. Particularly, in what might be called hi-tech jobs. 500,000 new homes will be built across the city. New York is safer now than in a long time. New York has shown compassion for the Asylum seekers and for the homeless and for the mentally and emotionally challenged. He said, “I believe in solving the problem upstream before they become downstream.” He challenged New Yorkers to devote just one hour a day to helping someone. I thought the Mayor’s presentation was compassionate, comprehensive, courageous and challenging; he covered all the bases. Devorah’s Hope At 5pm, I attended Devorah’s Hope at 1 Police Plaza. Devorah’s Hope is a film about a young girl and her brother who escaped the German invasion and occupation. When the war was over, she settled into another country. The family ordeal was highlighted but primarily the focus was on this young girl. The film was shown on the eve of Holocaust Day. Mayor Adams and the Police Commissioner Seawell spoke briefly at the event. As I walked from the Police Plaza to where my car was parked, I passed in the near distance, the African Burial Ground. I remember the struggle that we had to finally make the area a National Monument. I could not help but reflect on two of the most horrendous acts of humans against humans in history. The German concentration camps where we are told six million Jews were killed. It should be pointed out that others also died in the concentration camps and the enslavement of countless human beings. I thought about my visit to one of the first concentration camps in Germany, Sachsenhausen. In 19- I participated in a five member delegation that went to the German Democratic Republic (GDR) which was at that time the Eastern part of Germany. After the war, Germany was divided. The GDR was under Russia’s control or influence. It had a socialist government. We spent about a week there. As I stated I visited Sachsenhausen, and there in color is one of the houses where people were put awaiting the death chambers. Hungarians, gypsies, trade unionists were identified with color strips and the number of those killed alongside. It was not all Jews in the concentration camps. Our guide was a boy when he and his family were put in the concentration camps. His family was killed. He survived. He told us horror stories and what it was like being in the camps. This I was informed was one of the first, it wasn’t the worst. As I sat on the ground and listened to these horror stories, I thought how can humans be so cruel to other humans. How could they put their genius to work killing in the most gruesome fashion of a human being? Of course I thought of our enslavement where acts of human cruelty raggled and for as long as any in history. In fact, in our delegation was a Jew, Latino, Chicano, Native American. We talked long about the suffering of our people. In addition, we were taken to Cherine, Northern Germany where it is said Hitler planned the final solution to march the Jews into the sea. One German theologian Martin Niemöller said, “First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. The young German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer of the German resistance movement, who was a part of a plot to kill Hitler, was put in a concentration camp, then hanged April 9 1945. Leaving Germany I had another engagement in Ireland, Northern Ireland or Belfast. I had been in the struggle to free South Africa, free Mandela. We had formed an alliance with the Irish Freedom Strugglers. They laid claim to be the longest subjected people in history – 800 years being ruled by the British. But more specifically, the Hunger strike was the movement among Irish strugglers. Young Irish had gone on a hunger strike while in prison. One of the leaders, Bobby Sands, died from starvation. I participated in a memorial for him. Hence, they invited me to come to Ireland. So on my way, I had to change planes in London. When the British security people saw my passport, they saw I was going to Ireland. He looked at me with a strange disgusting look and he said, “You’re not going up there to convert them are you”. And it startled me, for a minute I didn’t know what to say.” Here was this white man making me a partner to his interests and calling other white people the “them” with a deep disdain. When my papers were finished and I was on the plane, I couldn’t help but reflect on the “them”. It seems that it is a step towards violence, cruelty because humans are no longer referred to or thought of as being human, but the “thems” a number or name that negates human. I thought among other whites- especially in America. I am a member of the “thems”. When I arrived in Ireland, I was treated with unparalleled kindness and hospitality in the airport. They even wanted to serve me free everything. When my host came to take me to where I was to stay, I was rather shocked because I stayed in the home of a woman and children whose husband had been killed by the British at this very house. Three to four days I stayed in this house and she told me many horror stories of how they had been treated by the British. I participated in the memorial of the Hunger Strikers who were starving themselves to death. I walked through the street of communities, Valley Murphy, Turf large and they were equal to any of these disadvantaged neighborhoods in America. When it was time to leave, Sinclair Boine, the filmmaker, asked me to stay on to complete the film the Black and the Green (this film has been produced and shown and is available.) One of the interviews we did was with one of the Irish strugglers supporting the Hunger Strike. The interview was done at SinFain HQ. SinFain is the political arm of the Irish Army. We sat for hours in the steel enclosed office. One of the questions I asked this young freedom fighter I said, “In the United States many Irish have become infected with the racism of America and are some of the most brutal policemen on the police force. What message would you deliver to the Irish in America.” He said, “ if the Irish cannot support the Black struggle then they don’t need to support us.” That quote was not in the later version of the film. We will never forget young Bernadette Delvin McAlliskey, when she was given an award in Chicago by Mayor Daly, she gave it to the Black Panther Party(BPP). “In Philadelphia, she had to goad an African-American singer to sing "We Shall Overcome" to the Irish-American audience, many of whom refused to stand for the song. In Detroit, she refused to take the stage until African-Americans, who were barred from the event, were allowed in.When New York Mayor Lindsay offered her the key to the city, she returned home to Ireland and recommended that the key be delivered to the Harlem Black Panther Party.”

Monday 1/23/2023 We had our usual Lifeline prayer from 7am-8am, followed by conversation. I met with one of my assistants to plan out my schedule for the week. Later that evening, we had our Timbuktu Learning Center Meeting, where we had political night and open mic. Tuesday 1/24/2023 The third Englewood Council Meeting and Justice for Bernard Placide I attended the third Englewood Council Meeting. Again, the room was crowded. The people were still vigorously pursuing justice for Bernard Placide. After the long line of speakers, I spoke. I said, “I have been fighting on this issue of police misconduct before some of your own council before you were born. It is incredible that we have to protect ourselves from the people we pray to protect us. There have been numerous times where people have called for assistance from the police and they end up dead in their own house. As in the case with Bernard. I put before two things what I think are two doable items for the council to work on. First, I supported the five demands of the community. Then I single out the two items: That the officer who killed Bernard be suspended until the investigation has been completed, that’s the least that you (the City Council) can do. Secondly, that there be a citizen review committee, police with subpoena power to oversee the police department. These two items are doable and they test the level of your sincerity. Wednesday 1/25/2023 We had our usual Lifeline prayer from 7am-8am, followed by conversation. 10-11 am One of my typists, Sharman Blake, has returned and we discussed the existing topic. There are some people who make a request before God and even when they see results, they are too afraid to rejoice and be grateful. They are afraid that there might be a reversal. I quoted two Scriptures, Jesus said, whatsoever things you desire when you pray, believe that you will receive them and you shall have them. So when you pray you should rejoice for God has heard you and God has sent the answer. It may not be in the form that you desire, for the form that you desire may be hurtful to you or may not be God’s will. So the second teaching of Jesus is found in what we call the Lord’s prayer. The verse that says, “Thy will be done.” Jesus teaches us that in all of our prayers we should say, “thy will be done.” For it means, trusting God to give us the best answer to our prayers. My other typist and I worked on Daily Prayers. We already have posted 365 prayers for every day in the year. Check it out on Herbert Daughtry Global Ministries Facebook. Now we’re working on another season of prayers. Timbuktu Learning Center The subject was Alzheimer's disease. Our teacher Leslie Williams taught that in her research, and she quoted the sources, that Alzheimer’s can be healed or what we can do to prevent the disease. I simply urge everybody who is concerned about their health should attend our Wednesday night at 716-427-1168 passcode: 604309#

Saturday January 21st and Sunday January 22 were historic and existential and future consequences. There were the issues of Ukraine; football, basketball history and culture. I was invited by Joseph Gerson and attended the Reducing the Threat of Nuclear War: Social and Economic Costs of the Current Nuclear Weapons Buildup. It was a 3-hour conference via Zoom sponsored by Massachusetts Peace Action. The parade of scholars, activists, and religious leaders was most impressive. The budget for the nuclear research advancement is 2 trillion dollars. This is supposed to win the nuclear race, but it was pointed out that the U.S. already has three times more long-range missiles than Russia and far more nuclear devices than other countries. So, if the question of winning the nuclear race, America has already won. Therefore, what is the need to win what you’ve already won? It would seem that the argument would be to cease at this point and direct the resources to human needs, which were spelled out in graphic details during the conference. Which means when all the other money and resources goes to the Pentagon more is spent for the needs of the Pentagon and not enough for the needs of the American people. The statistics underscored that what would happen in a Nuclear war is terrifying and the causes of a nuclear war were equally terrifying. No nation, it was pointed out, would deliberately go to nuclear war. But accidents, misinterpretations, miscalculations of a nation’s intention could ignite the end of the human race.It behooves all Americans, in fact, all the peoples of the world need to unite and become active at whatever level they can. We invite you to attend our organizing meeting this Saturday, January 28th 2023. One of the issues will be War and Peace and another issue which poses a threat some would say, and even more of a potential for annihilation-climate change. Football and the lessons of African American History and Culture This weekend was football heaven for the lovers of the sport. Two games on Saturday and two games on Sunday. These were semi-finals and the winners of these games will play for the championship of their respective leagues next Sunday 1/29. And the winners of those two games will meet for the SuperBowl. On Saturday, the Jacksonville Jaguars were defeated by the Kansas City Chiefs; the New York Giants were defeated by the Philadelphia Eagles; and then Sunday, the Buffalo Bills were defeated by the Cincinnati Bengals. While most people of the world, I suspect, were rooting for the Buffalo Bills since the near- injury death of Lamar Hamlin who was injured in a prior game between the two teams. The Dallas Cowboys were defeated by the San Francisco 49ers and they will play Philadelphia next Sunday. So at the end of the weekend it means that in one league Cincinnati Bengals will play the Kansas City Chiefs and in the other league the San Francisco 49ers will play the Philadelphia Eagles. The winners will play for the SuperBowl. Now, I must confess that when I’m asked my favorite teams, I become race conscious. A long time ago when I was a youngster, I would put pictures of football players up on the wall in my bedroom. My oldest brother Lonnie came into the room and studied the pictures as he said, “where are the black players? I don't see any Black players” and I looked and didn’t see any either. Then I went searching for Black football players and I found Kenny Washington, Jackie Robinson, who was playing at UCLA. (As I later researched the dates and players, Levi Jackson was at Yale 1946.) I started looking for not only Black football players but for Black people in every endeavor. I’m 92 now (for those who understand I’m 93) and I have vigorously been looking for people of African Ancestry all over the world in every position of life. First, in football I looked for ownership, are there any Black owners of a professional football team? No. Then you look for the executive director, that is the person who is responsible for all that happens with the football teams. In other words, they're in charge of the football operations. To my knowledge, I don’t know of any in charge of football operations. Then I go down to the playing field, are there any black coaches? And there are no black coaches of the present teams that have been mentioned. Then I go to the coordinators of defense or offense. They stand next to the coach and usually they are picked for coaching jobs. There are coordinators on the San Francisco and Kansas City Chiefs. Then I go to the quarterbacks, they are on the playing field generals. The quarterback is considered intelligent, tough, creative, physically agile, and strong. Of the present teams, there is one quarterback on the Philadelphia Eagles and another of African origin on the Kansas City Chiefs. For those of us particularly this weekend football, and all of life to be relatively conscious is to be in search of Black people all the time. Of course, you will immediately recognize our change in James Baldwin's statement from “To be Black in America and relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.” But to be Black in America and to be relatively conscious is to be in search of Black people - ALL THE TIME.

There was a report of Zelensky meeting with the FBI chief in Germany. The FBI informed President Zelensky of the Russian spring offensive. In Germany, where the NATO leaders were leading, President Zelensky was begging for more sophisticated tanks. Germany has refused the request to give the tanks. The U.S. is trying to persuade Germany to proceed. Germany doesn't want to be responsible for starting a war and has insisted America give its most sophisticated tanks. President Biden has argued that the American tanks are more complicated to operate and to repair and are unsuited for the terrain. In addition, it is more costly and their debate stands. In the meanwhile, it is still promoted to the American public that somehow Ukraine is winning the war and will ultimately defeat Russia while at the same time, residual of cities destroyed, the constant discussion of the pain, suffering of the Ukrainian people during the winter season. Russia has intensified its missile attacks on the infrastructure that gave the people power: electrical, heating, cooking. They no longer can survive at the rate things are going. And yet, somehow the American Press and parading old Generals of bygone wars, politicians, and Ukrainian leaders themselves are all trying to convince the American people and the world that Ukraine is winning the war. Tanks and Talks and the war in Ukraine grind on… I awoke this morning with two disturbing reports: CIA director and President Zelensky have secret talks. Among the matters reported discussed: Russian spring offensive, there is a huge Russian build up in troops and weapons that have been detected in key areas in the country have been targeted. What Ukraine and America propose to do about this threat was not disclosed. Second: the NATO nations have been in Germany top of the agenda. President Zelensky wants Tanks. Remember, a few weeks ago he was in America begging for missiles and air shield or defenses and other weapons and money which the Congress enthusiastically approved. Two and half billion are on the way. Well, now President Zelensky is pleading Germany for other weapons. When will it end? When Zelensky asks for and gets nuclear weapons and then Nuclear War and then the End. Well, what is Russia saying about all the weapon buildup and talk of winning the war and ”doing as much as it takes as long as it takes“. The most sobering response has come from a former Russian President who reported to have said, "Russia will use nuclear weapons before it be defeated." So, there rest; one side says “we will stay in the war till we win, the other side says, we will not lose“ and nobody is talking about peace and death, destruction, disruption grows significantly more pervasive.In light of this threat to our existence, why is little protest heard or seen in the land? We must wake up, mobilize, and organize to SAVE THE PLANET! SAVE THE PEOPLE!

Photo Bio Series Part Six: Black United Front in Action! Meanwhile, during the "Bloody Summer of 78", racism and violence con unabated against Black people. ● Sunday, July 23rd, 1978 - a packed bus of Black people from Riis Beach attacked by a gang of whites at Utica and Avenue K. ● Sunday, August 13th, 1978 - Darryl Murray beaten and hospitalized by police - 88th pct. ● Monday, August 14th,1978- Black youth and l Hispanic youth, CETA beaten by a white gang in a planned attack in Gravesend, Brooklyn ● Tuesday, August 15th, 1978 - Thurman Robinson, a fifteen year old beaten and hospitalized by police - 73rd pct. Realizing that the atmosphere for this increased hostility against Blacks was emanating from City Hall, now occupied by a Mayor(Koch)who was both racist and totally insensitive to the needs of the masses of the Blacks, Hispanics and poor peoples of this City, the Black United Front joined with groups from all over New York City for the planning and execution of a March on City Hall. On Thursday, September 28th, 1978, thousands of Black New Yorkers and supporters marched to protest the policies of the Mayor and posted Ten Demands on the door to City Hall. These Demands called attention to deplorable conditions in our community as pertains to: ● Police brutality ● White terrorist gangs ● Poor social services ● Political manipulation of anti-poverty funds ● Closing of municipal hospitals ● High unemployment ● Deterioration of public housing ● Cutback in child care and senior citizen budgets ● Destruction of neighborhoods ● Miseducation in public schools On Monday, November 6, 1978, BLACK SOLIDARITY DAY in New York City, over three thousand people marched in a solidarity rally to the Wall Street Stock Exchange to protest the dismissal of charges brought against policemen in the murder of Arthur Miller. We (BUF) sought to demonstrate that the bankrupt leadership of New York held profits in a higher esteem than human life. On December 11th, 1978 (Human Rights Day), the Black United Front officially climaxed a year of meaningful and effective organizing and struggle by petitioning the United Nations Commission on Human Rights to investigate the violation of human rights and illegal imprisonment of political prisoners in the United States. Over five hundred people came out in ten degree weather to participate in this historic event. Since its birth and development in 1978 and during 1979, The Black United Front has continued to grow and develop as a force for change in New York City. The Black United Front is a grassroot organization. It is dedicated to eliminating racism and it is committed to instituting justice. It promotes collective Black ethics and works towards seeking power in the political, economic, and social sphere, as well as the complete liberation of Black people. We have begun the process of educating and organizing the masses of Black people throughout Metropolitan New York so that we change our present reality. We invite you to JOIN US! Photo Caption: After the police on horseback attacked us as we were walking across the bridge to confront President Carter and after repeated efforts to reach him and his Attorney General with charges of racist behavior by the administration and other racist acts and we did not receive a response. We gathered at City Hall where he was speaking and disrupted the meeting. At a press conference the next day I held up photos showing the police attacking us on horseback.

Monday January 16, 2023 - Martin Luther King Jr. Day - Holiday We developed the agenda for the week and month. Tuesday, January 17, 2023 I posted about our Sunday praying and playing. I also had a conversation with Judge Randolph Jackson. Judge Jackson was a Supreme Court Justice, a compassionate, sensitive, brilliant man. Dr. Gardener C. Taylor was his mentor for 42 years. He was a Concord Baptist Church lawyer. He was a superlative organizer, organizing many of the law groups into a unity. I had been driven to read his book, My Life Journey in the NY Supreme Court. It had been around for a long time. But this morning, I was looking for something else, as often happens and I came across his book. As I started to read, I couldn’t stop and I read most of the 155 pages in about 2 ½ hours. A couple of statements he made, one was the way that he governed his life and practices as a lawyer. He said, “many of his colleagues, when a client comes into an office for help, they think, how much money can i make in this case?” He asks how I can help this person. He did so and I was reminded when I read the book of a young man that he helped as a lawyer. The young man was one of my assistants and was accused of robbing a bank. The Federal government had pushed hard to have him indicted. His alibi put him somewhere other than the bank job. The prosecutors didn’t care about that. Judge Jackson had him take a lie detector test and passed. But the prosecutors didn’t care about that. They moved straight ahead to have this young man indicted. He was charged by the prosecutors, the case never went before the grand jury and his mother who testified, Judge Jackson told her not to mention that he had a lie detector test. Reflections on Trees In the morning, I looked out across from home in my favorite workplace looking out across the field toward the hills. I was struck by the trees that a few months ago were all filled with green leaves and now they were all gone and it was like looking at skeletons. I was fascinated that some of the trees were ripped up and the branches of other trees were ripped from the base. All done by strong winds that have moved to the fields. It reminded me of the poem by Kilmer, “I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree…” But now there was no beauty about the trees, but there was a lesson. Some trees stood firm and immovable while other trees were bent over and still others were ripped up. It reminded me of the redwood trees of California which stand and have stood for hundreds of years I’m told. And there are the Florida palm trees, when the tempestuous hurricane blows the palm trees bend almost to the ground, but springs back and then there is the evergreen that remains no matter what the weather. Even though the weather changes. These trees reminded me of people. Some people are torn apart by the challenges of life. Some people can go with the flow and always come back, no matter how many blows they receive. And some people remain the same, come what may. The trees that stand have roots or have built in to withstand the winds.That may be why some trees stand and some fall when the wind comes. Timbuktu Learning Center(TLC) Councilman Charles Barron Charles Barron was on the Timbuktu nightly call. I started something new, a conversation with movers and shakers. Councilman Charles Barron was my first guest. There will be others on Tuesday nights. We discussed the history of BUF, NBUF, the African People’s Christian Organization (APCO) and many other organizations we started and issues, events we participated in. I met him when he was a sophomore at Hunter College. He became attached to me and later we became inseparable. He joined our church and became Youth Leader and led a group of young people to Grenada and met with Prime Minister Morris Bishop. I married him and his beautiful wife, who had been a longtime member Inez Barron who later became Councilwoman and Assemblymember. I baptized him during our Holy Pilgrimage in Augusta, GA. I married and christened their first born child. He was a Special Assistant when we started BUF and became Chairman of the Harlem chapter. He led the struggle to have a Black curator at the Schomburg library in Harlem. He is a founding member and became Executive Director at APCO. He was my special representative in various high level meetings. One of the meetings I sent him to was in Washington, D.C. At the meeting was Corretta Scott King, Stevie Wonder and others. The major topic was a national holiday for Dr. King. During the meeting, Stevie Wonder mentioned the song he was writing for the upcoming rally. The song was ‘Happy Birthday’. Wednesday, January 18, 2023 We had our usual morning prayer with the Lifeline Prayer and Inspirational Fellowship from 7am-8am. Conversation with Charles Barron around 8:30am I received a call from Councilman Charles Barron. It was like old times, we talked all day, planning, strategizing, analyzing and sharing ideas. Then that night we talked some more and back again in the morning. So many exciting things were happening in our lives. This morning we revisited the debate we had the night before. The substance of which was how much progress have we made and where black political leaders have failed. Then we discussed what more we can do. Timbuktu Learning Center(TLC) - Health Night We had our TLC with Sister Leslie, the topic was the devastation of sugar consumption. She focused on diabetes and how there are other factors involved in diabetes. But the excessive consumption of sugar is the prime culprit. She mentioned how sugar is hidden in a lot of food products we consume, and she also emphasized that sugar is addictive. Once we become addicted it is similar to any drug that we become enslaved to. Thursday, January 19, 2023 We had our usual morning prayer with the Lifeline Prayer and Inspirational Fellowship from 7am-8am. Earlier I posted to Facebook, a tribute for Muhammad Ali at the Barclay’s center in 2016, in honor of his birthday January 17, 1942. You can read it at this link: https://www.hdgministries.org/post/a-tribute-for-muhammad-ali-at-the-barclays-center Later on, I went with the family to see my 5 year old great granddaughter Lauren at the Little Gym for her gymnastics class. Indeed it was a joy. Her middle name is Joy and to see her on the bars, twisting, turning, etc. Tomorrow we will be back again for her brother Alexander to show off his skills. He is two years old.

Photo Bio Series Part Five: Black United Front in Action! HISTORY OF THE BLACK UNITED FRONT In the photo is my wife Dr. Karen Daughtry, myself, and Arthur Miller’s wife. On November 25th, 1976 fifteen year old Randolph Evans was wantonly murdered by patrolman Robert Torsney. One year later on November 28th, 1977 a jury returned with the verdict against Torsney; NOT GUILTY by reason of temporary insanity. The Black community was outraged. Would this be another Black youth slaughtered by a white patrolman without an appropriate response? The Coalition of Concerned Leaders and Citizens To Save Our Youth, renamed January 1977 - The Coalition For Economic Fairness, came together to organize the Black Christmas Boycott of 1977 aimed at the downtown department stores of Brooklyn, who received huge profits from the purchases of our people, the principal consumers, while they murder our children. The boycott was an overwhelming success and lasted until victory was won in March 1978. A movement was born. The Coalition in the aftermath of the downtown boycott challenged the fitness of Congress Frederick Richmond, (14th C.D.) to serve as a legislator in the Congress of the U.S.A. Richmond, who confessed his guilt as a molester of a teenage Black male youth, represented a district in Congress that has a constituency that is composed of over 60% Black residents. The Coalition informed and educated our people about the moral, see The Moral Dilemma of Fred Richmond - Amsterdam News, deviation of Congressman Richmond. For the first time in the modern history of Black Brooklyn, a Grassroots Political Convention was held to select a single Black candidate to oppose Richmond. While Congressman Richmond used his ample surplus wealth, (he is reputed to be worth more than 50 million), he defeated the candidate of the Unified Black Community. We learned many lessons and gained valuable experiences. We shall transform defeat into victory. During the week of June 14th-22nd, three infamous incidents occurred in the Black community of Brooklyn that was to culminate in the formation of the Black United Front. On Wednesday night June 14th, 1978, Arthur Miller, a young, dynamic Crown Heights community leader was savagely beaten and strangled to death by over twenty policemen, when he sought to investigate his brother's pending arrest on a traffic violation. The very next night, Thursday, June 15th, 1978, Victor Rhodes, a fifteen year old Black Crown Heights youth was beaten and stomped on by over thirty members of the Hasidic Jewish community of Crown Heights. Rhodes remained in a coma and hospitalized for over three months. On June 22nd, 1978, Charles King, 54, a Black Crown Heights merchant was kicked and beaten by a traffic patrolman. He was hospitalized with a broken leg. The Brooklyn Black Community was aroused and inflamed by this unprovoked reign of terror by the police and white terrorist gangs. At an informal meeting of community leaders and activists a call was issued for the formation of a Black United Front. On Wednesday, July 5th, 1978, at a press conference held on the steps of City Hall, Black community leaders, clergymen and political activists announced the formation of the Black United Front as a vehicle to agitate, educate and organize our community. Several days later the formation of the Black Community Civilian Patrol was announced to serve and protect the community in times of siege and crisis. On Sunday, July 16th, 1978, over 5,000 angry Black residents of Brooklyn took to the streets in a historic march and rally in Crown Heights, organized by the Black United Front. On Tuesday, August 8th, 1978, hundreds of Black United Front supporters marched to City Hall to confront U.S. President Jimmy Carter on the issue of Human Rights for Black citizens of the United States. We demanded a federal investigation violation of our Human Rights by the racism and violence that is clearly apparent within the New York City Police Department.

The brutal beating of Tyre Nichols by at least five officers played out on a video for the world to see on Friday night January 27, 2023. I grieved deeply for Mrs. RowVaughn Wells and all the many mothers and fathers whose loved ones have been brutally beaten or murdered by the police – the people we pay to protect us. For about 65 years, for as long as I’ve been in the ministry, police misconduct has been at the top of my agenda. But even before I was an adult and, in the ministry, it was a known fact, a given, in the communities that police were always on the prowl to round up Black men especially or even youth for a beating in the precincts. I had a friend, I can see his face now, a gentle soul, one  night the police accused him of a crime, took him to the precinct. The next time I saw him was in an institution, he was staring out the window, never saying a word. They had literally beat the senses out of him. One horrendous case I remember was the death of Peter Funches, he was 100% disabled Vietnam Vet. One day, he got in his car, drove up to the Bronx, all the while his wife was calling for help. He was found beaten to death. The police said he died from ramming his car into a cement wall. At the time, we, the National Black United Front, had a special committee we called Police Brutality Investigation Unit (PBIU). It was headed by the late David Walker. We took photos of the car, there was no crash. We had photos of Mr. Funches shown with his bruised face and a scarred head. Moreover, I held a press conference and showed the photo and argued that this man died from a beating and not from a bruised car, in addition, we had witnesses who testified that they saw Mr. Funches being beaten. My point is that no one in my generation or in the movement against police brutality should be surprised by the beating to which Tyre was subjected. The only difference is now we have the technology that allows us to see the actual act happening. I hope that Americans will feel not only sadness, but I hope Americans will feel guilty. For in these cases of police brutality and murder, no matter how obvious the evidence, the jury have always exonerated the police. Therefore, the American public from which the jury pools comes are guilty of delivering a message to these policemen, you can do what you please to people of African Ancestry and you will not be charged with a crime, in fact you might even get promoted. As was the case with Bernard Placide in Englewood, NJ. A police officer shot him to death in his own home. That police officer was promoted or as the Mayor said, “reassigned”. Whichever way, what it means instead of the officer being removed from duty at least until the investigation is completed. Surely, the Mayor knew and as all Americans should know, that if the officer was out on leave until the investigation is completed, the investigation may take months or even years to complete. And that would be too much punishment for the killer cops. Mrs. Wells, how hopeful she was/is believing that her son’s death will mark changes in America. She even prayed for everyone including the police officers who killed her son. I think I’m far within the mark to say, we hope and we struggle to bring about changes. What the savage beating of Tyre and the swift wheels of justice rolled in charging these Black officers with murder, kidnapping, etc. I emphasize Black officers for the usual reaction is nothing will be done to the officers no matter how brutal the beating or how openly the unnecessary shooting. The position of the police, the elected officials and white generally was that the officers were innocent until proven guilty. Therefore nothing can be done until there was an investigation. And as I’ve stated, the investigation can take forever. In the meanwhile, the officers would continue in their jobs as usual or the worst could happen is they would be placed on desk duty. Their pay and pensions and whatever benefits they are supposed to receive would be intact. The swift move of the police and the prosecutor in Tyre’s case is a “blueprint for going forward”. A quote made by Benjamin Crump, the attorney for the family made at a press conference in Memphis. Never again can they claim policemen in clear cases of brutality, in clear cases of guilt, of abuse of power, and of murder cannot be fired or out of indefinite leaves or until an investigation is completed.There will always be a reference to look what happened to the officers in the Tyre Nichols case. I also agree with Mrs. Wells that we should pray and forgive everybody, even the officers that killed her son. I may take a different view about the expression of love than Mrs. Wells, I reckon and most Christian people, I believe you surely love the victim of crimes, you love them and support them anyway you can. And I believe that you love the victimizer with tough love. That is to say by stopping the victimizers actions, which subjects the victims to abuse or pain and you have to use different methods to convince the victimizer, his actions are wrong. I believe in the love that a parent exercises against the child who has violated the family’s rules, some form of tough love is exercised to bring the child to see and to cease doing those things that brings harm to others. And I hope with Mrs. Wells that somehow good will come of it. Again, I believe that you do something to bring about the change that you want to see. I know that there are times when God says, “I’ll fight this battle and we are told to watch and see God’s action. But most of the time, in my experience, God helps us and shows us how to do the right thing. Hence, I hope that all who are grieving will let their tears be the fuel that would move them to act. One word more on the question of racism. There were many who found it difficult to believe that the officers who did this terrible thing to Tyre were black. They don’t understand racism. Racism is like a disease, live COVID-19 it infects everyone. People in power who subject or enslave or exploit others attempt to substantiate their positions of power and superiority while making their victims to feel inferior. Malcolm X, the greatest crime the white man committed was teaching us to hate ourselves.” To prevent being infected by racism we have to take certain medicines, like education, particularly the study of history and other subjects. The constant awareness of what is going on around us and also the study of one’s self and one’s behavior. For there is constant attempt by the racist or the enslaver to saturate and to suffuse all of his institutions, systems, customs, traditions, mores to again sustain the superiority and power and to perpetuate inferiority in the victims. Therefore it’s no wonder you have black folks, who act like white folks. Who have become so identified with Euro Ethnic that they will do whatever they see Euro Ethnics do. So we just ever be on our guard so we don’t become infected with the disease of racism and act think like the racist. It is absolutely necessary for us to stay vigilant so that we don’t become infected with the disease of racism and act and think like the racist – like the Black cops who brutalized Tyre Nichols or unless conspicuous and brutal ways.