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After A Decade Of Advocacy A Change @ Chatt-a-box

After much con­sid­er­a­tion and much thought, I have decid­ed to heed the con­cerns that some of you, the faith­ful loy­al­ists to (chatt​-​a​-box​.com) has expressed, that we con­sid­er chang­ing the URL of our site. A Uniform Resource Locator (URL), col­lo­qui­al­ly termed a web address, is a ref­er­ence to a web resource that spec­i­fies its loca­tion on a com­put­er net­work and a mech­a­nism for retriev­ing it. [w]

For over a decade the URL chatt​-​a​-box​.com has served in get­ting our mes­sage out and has been instru­men­tal in get­ting your views heard. Insofar as we have been able to bring aware­ness through our mutu­al inter­ac­tion, whether it be on issues of race, polic­ing, pol­i­tics, or reli­gion we are tru­ly grate­ful. If we have helped to pos­i­tive­ly impact a sin­gle life, then the work and expense are well worth it to me. This has always been work with a vision for me, a labor of love. For a decade we have self-fund­ed this project from our own resources. We are grate­ful that we are able to con­tin­ue to do so.

To the degree that we have over the years been able to bring atten­tion to top­i­cal issues, it may also have impressed upon us the need to be seen as seri­ous as pos­si­ble, not just in tone, but in optics as well. This change will facil­i­tate eas­i­er access to the site and will hope­ful­ly enhance the seri­ous­ness of our mis­sion. To the extent that-that mis­sion is doable, we have decid­ed to make access to our site as easy as pos­si­ble and that our mis­sion remains to be viewed as seri­ous­ly as we intend to be taken.

And so after a decade on the world wide web, the deci­sion to move to (Mikebeckles​.com) seems to make the most sense. Visitors who use the old URL will be seam­less­ly guid­ed to the site’s new URL.

Mike Beckles is a for­mer police Detective cor­po­ral, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, he is a black achiev­er hon­oree, and pub­lish­er of the blog chatt​-​a​-box​.com.  He’s also a con­trib­u­tor to sev­er­al web­sites. You may sub­scribe to his blogs free of charge, or sub­scribe to his Youtube chan­nel @chatt-a-box, for the lat­est pod­cast all free to you of course.