The Roots Initiative
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06/01/2026
TRI Founder & CEO Tanesha Peeples had an opportunity to celebrate with Learn 8 Middle School Graduates today as Commencement Speaker! 🙌🏾🎓✨🎉
Graduates-
You showed up. You learned, adapted, and kept moving forward, even when things felt difficult. Every assignment completed, every challenge overcome, every lesson learned has brought you to this moment.
As you step into high school, remember you come from a legacy of dreamers, builders, artists, leaders, innovators, and change makers. Excellence is not something you have to earn - it already lives within you. Your job is to nurture it, protect it, and let it shine! ✨
Congratulations on your graduation!! 🙌🏾👏🏾🎓🎉
- The Roots Initiative
05/06/2026
Congratulations to our founder and CEO, Tanesha Peeples, and all Surge Fellowship leaders who will be recognized at Chicago on May 12th! 🎉✨👏🏾
Tanesha was selected by Surge Institute to receive the “Freedom Dreamer Award.”
Well deserved! We are so proud! ✊🏾🙌🏾🥂
Limited seats available. Get your tickets today!
https://secure.givelively.org/event/surge-institute/surge-fellowship-chicago-2026-leadthesurge-event
9 days out… and it’s starting to feel real real.
You know that kind of night where everybody shows up looking good, feeling proud, and it’s bigger than just the moment? Yeah… that’s what this is.
The 3rd Annual Black Excellence Ball isn’t just about getting dressed up (even though we are doing that). It’s about pouring back into our youth, making sure they’ve got what they need long after the music stops.
Every ticket is part of that. Every person in the room is part of that.
🎟️ www.therootsinitiative.org/black-excellence-ball
Don’t wait—this isn’t one of those “I’ll grab mine later” situations. Later be gone quick.
Can’t make it? No pressure—but you can still show love:
✨ put somebody else in the room
✨ support the event
✨ give what you can
We take care of each other. That’s what this is.
🗓️ May 1, 2026
🕖 7–11PM
📍 Little Black Pearl, Chicago
🎟️ $75
9 days. Pull up how you pull up—but be part of it!
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