The T.H. Evans Foundation for Black Youth and Culture is one that uses teaching as a means toward transformation.  In very targeted approaches, we position ourselves to engage the individual, knowing that when the individual is changed, it is impossible for the family, community and greater society to remain unchanged.  To that end, we teach-- not just so that one may learn, but sometimes, so that he or she may unlearn, and always, so that they might be transformed. The T.H. Evans Foundation for Black Youth and Culture is likely to be different from that to which you have become accustomed.  Born of Hip-Hop culture in the 1970's; outfitted in the garb of the Black Power Rhetoric of the 1960's; spiritually fed by the passion and pioneer spirit of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950's, and artistically influenced by the brilliant Harlem Renaissance era forms of expression of the 1920's, all of these elements come together to inform the focus and direction of this organization. You may have heard, or perhaps have even yourself thought, that young people are non-committal and apathetic.  Or, that the workings of all those whom we regard as the "historic" figures who fought and/or died for the "freedoms" in which we now indulge have been lost on young people.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  Allow us to re-affirm the value of the efforts of those who came before us, to nurture your faith in our abilities to lead, and to re-ignite your hope for the future.  While we seek to engage all members of our community, with a reverence for those wiser and more mature than ourselves, you will find that most of us have not yet reached the age of 35.  Check out the collective talent and power of our "Speaker's Bureau." Even in our "youth", we speak and act on our commitments. At the T.H. Evans Foundation for Black Youth and Culture, words and deeds come together.  While we pray, we move our feet... It has been said that, "Joy is one of the most infallible signs of the presence of God." And so, it is with great joy that I greet you, and encourage you to keep watching-- you won't want to miss a beat!   Forward thinking and moving, Tracy Heather Evans