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KOSMelaninology™ Book Club

We are pleased to announce the second book of our book club!

“The Black race’s under-education, dys-education (dysfunctional) and mis-education about Melanin merely reflects one particle of their white domination and post traumatic colonialism trauma and post traumatic slavery trauma. Black people must “know thyself” and to know yourself is to now Melanin.” pg 5 Melanin What Makes Black People Black.

OUR SECOND BOOK

Unlearn: 101 Simple Truths for a Better Life," by Humble the Poet.

Tonia is the Advocacy & Community Director at ASCENDtials. The book we will use for the event will help you learn new, unconventional ways of moving through life.

About the Book

Unlearn: 101 Simple Truths for a Better Life, by Humble the Poet

“The internationally bestselling self-empowerment book from influencer, rapper, and spoken word artist Humble the Poet, now available in a new edition with a new foreword by the author. Unlearn offers short, accessible, and counterintuitive lessons for reaching our full potential. In Unlearn, he opens our eyes to our own lives, helping us to recognize the possibilities that await us and the challenges that prevent us from realizing our dreams. With his characteristic honesty and forthrightness, he helps us shed the problematic lessons we’ve learned throughout our lives that limit us, from sabotaging habits, to fixed mindsets, to past regrets, and relearn new, unconventional ways of moving through life. “

Among his 101 lessons are:

-Fitting In Is a Pointless Activity

-Don’t Trust Everything You Feel

-Killing Expectations Births Happiness

-Comparisons are Killer

-Baby Steps Add Up

-You Decide Your Worth

Our First Book

Melanin: What Makes Black People Black by Llaila O. Afrika

We will share insight into a topic not much discussed, Melanin. Although there is much rigorous research and study being conducted presently on the topic, yet most people aren’t as versed in the biochemical that is so essential to life itself, our universe, and exists in almost everything. Why is that? “Does not this Melanin research reveal that humanity is a Black Africoid derived population who ranges in external skin color from Purple Black to White but who are all Black in the inside?” -King

Our goal is to have casual conversations around this subject so that we might have a better understanding of its role in our universe. This is necessary to have a deeper connection with our purpose in life, our reasons for existence, and in gaining insight into knowing ourselves. Melanin is the chemical of life, and if you aren’t aware, then you aren’t interested in saving your Self. We always talk about being in harmonious resonance, but if you haven’t discussed this topic, then you are missing it. These sessions will provide participants with dialogue and tools that enhance thinking, communication, and self-reflection. We hope to address and work through these issues in real-time through engagement that enhances empathy and ethical responsibility.

Additional Information:

The book club will take place every first and third Thursday of the month. The event is online.

Next one is July 7th 2022 12pm PST online or July 21st 12pm PST

For book club updates, visit:

Knowledge of Self: KOS-Melanin-ology Book Club