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About Purpose Publishing, Inc.
Teaching diversity from within public school textbooks will improve race relations!
Race relations is still a VERY SERIOUS issue in America. Now that terrorism is a growing threat, America and the World must find ways to better teach and learn respect for all people.
Ray Mapp
Father, Historian, Author, Publisher, and Minister
Ray Mapp was born in Asheville, NC and attended NC public schools. After graduating high school, he accepted a football scholarship to attend Johnson C. Smith University where he majored in computer science and minored in business and history. He is currently pursuing a Masters Degree in Education with a focus on Instructional Design.
Mapp says that public education taught him too little about anything outside of European domination and often times the references that were made to black people in the school curriculum embarrassed and even angered him as a black child. These experiences along with some encouragement from his mother … lead him to search for the history of black people in science and invention independently.
He eventually started a publishing company called Purpose Publishing, Inc. that publishes only material that inspires people to improve self-esteem as well as improve race relations. Purpose Publishing, Inc. publishes posters, books, art, CDs and DVDs. Their main product right now is the Black Miracles Book-On-A-PosterTM, which lists over 200 inventions by black men and women that set the stage for modern technology and medicine, as we know it today.
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Ray Mapp says that he entitled their initial product Black Miracles, because he believes we are all walking, breathing, heart pumping miracles, but more specifically he entitled the poster Black Miracles because many of the scientists listed on this poster could only have been instructed by divine intervention to achieve such high tech inventions and life saving medical contributions because in many cases … they were the first human beings to accomplish these mind blowing contributions … overcoming insurmountable odds. |
