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What credibility is there in Geneva's all-white boycott?—What do the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Italy and Israel have in common? They are all either European or European-settler states. And they all decided to boycott this week's UN conference against racism in Geneva – even before Monday's incendiary speech by the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad which triggered a further white-flight walkout by representatives of another 23 European states. In international forums, it's almost unprecedented to have such an undiluted racial divide of whites-versus-the-rest. And for that to happen in a global meeting called to combat racial hatred doesn't exactly augur well for future international understanding at a time when the worst economic crisis since the war is ramping up racism and xenophobia across the world. . . .The dispute was mainly about Israel and western fears that the conference would be used, like its torrid predecessor in Durban at the height of the Palestinian intifada in 2001, to denounce the Jewish state and attack the west over colonialism and the slave trade. Guardian |
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This is about the vulnerability of black
men in America.
By Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. I gave him the two IDs and I demanded to know his name and his badge number. Are you not responding to me because you’re a white police officer and I’m a black man? |
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Ethiopia: Peoples of the Omo Valley—Within the most remote part of Ethiopia, centuries from modernity, Hans Sylvester photographed for six years tribes where men, women, children and elders are true geniuses of ancestral art. At their feet the Omo River across a triangle of Ethiopia, Sudan and Kenya, the grand valley of the Rift that is slowly separating Africa. It is a volcanic region providing an immense palette of pigments, ocher-red, white kaolin, copper-green, luminous yellow and ash-grey. They are painting geniuses and their six feet tall bodies are an immense canvas. The strength of their art can be defined in three words: their fingers, speed, and freedom. They draw with their open hands, their nails and fingertips, sometimes with a wooden stick, a reed, a smashed stalk. They draw with swift, rapid and spontaneous gestures beyond childlikeness, these essential movements that great contemporary masters are looking for when they have learned a lot and are trying to forget it all. The Omo merely want to decorate themselves, to seduce, be beautiful, have fun and endless pleasure. Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa / Online slideshow |
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The State of the Black Union 2009 Kam Williams Interviews Tavis Smiley |
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US Aircraft and Elite Navy SEALs Defeat Three Somalis in a Lifeboat—What a weekend for American foreign policy! The United States Navy, backed up by warships from 20 other nations, knocked off three Somali guys crouching with rifles in a lifeboat tied by a rope to a U.S. destroyer. To hear the U.S. corporate media tell it, the Americans had won a huge victory over the forces of evil. The sole surviving Somali was in custody—a 16-year-old who essentially gave himself up, earlier, after being hurt in a scuffle with the American cargo ship captain who is now celebrated as a hero of the seven seas and defender of United States national honor. There is something obscene about a superpower whose media and population find great satisfaction, and some sick form of national catharsis, every time they manage to overcome a weak and desperate opponent. . . . An estimated $300 million worth of Somali sea life is pirated by foreigners every year. BlackAgendaReport Pirate Suspect Charged as Adult in New York |
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A Literary Anthology by Gang Members and Their Affiliates Edited by Louis Reyes Rivera and Bruce George A Review of The Bandana Republic (Sharif) |
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Images and Homages:‘Memwars’ From the Eugene B. Redmond Collection Edited by Howard Rambsy II |
Jeremiah Wright: Warrior and Trickster A ChickenBones Editorial and Discussion |
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Henry Blasius Masuko Chipembere -- Chipembere: The Missing Years. |
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The Difference Between Black Brazil and Black U.S. (Italo Ramos) / Chinese Invasion of Nigeria (Alinnnor Arinze) |
Poems from Kin'lin for the Soul by Beverly Jenai That which binds . . . / My Friend Yictove / Richard Chenault II—2007 A Hero Passed On |
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Fidel Castro May Day Speech 2007 It Is Imperative to Have an Energy Revolution / Global News: Politics—Literature & the Arts |
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Native Americans say NO to Hilary Clinton by Carter Camp, Ponca Nation |
| Sandra West files: We Are A Dancing People Leslie Garland Bolling Wendy Stand Up with Your Proud Hair! Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance |
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Iraqi Journalist Hurls Shoes at Bush Press Conference Security agents destroyed the shoes thrown at US President Ugliness in the Beautiful Game The United States Women’s Soccer Team Loses to Brazil By Amin Sharif Why was Belafonte’s Oakland star-studded gathering whited out by mainstream media? (Marvin X)
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Banning Saggy Pants is the Wrong Conversation (Bruce Dixon) Sagging Pants: The Real Deal (Ramey) |
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In Memory of Mother Griot Mary Carter Smith Poem by Beverly Fields Burnette
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Searching for my Great Grandmother at Stonewall / Voices of the Culture / Search for Black Men: Vietnam Post-Mortem / A Season's Griot Poems |
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Farewell Letter from Curtis Muhammad A Message the Left and Progressive Forces inside the USA |
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'Self-Help': A Stolen Word Wielded as a Weapon Against Black Activism By BAR executive editor Glen Ford |
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Man dies after cop hits him with Taser 9 times—A police officer shocked a handcuffed Baron "Scooter" Pikes nine times with a Taser after arresting him on a cocaine charge. He stopped twitching after seven, according to a coroner's report. Soon afterward, Pikes was dead. Now the officer, since fired, could end up facing criminal charges in Pikes' January death after medical examiners ruled it a homicide. Dr. Randolph Williams, the Winn Parish coroner, told CNN the 21-year-old sawmill worker was jolted so many times by the 50,000-volt Taser that he might have been dead before the last two shocks were delivered. Williams ruled Pikes' death a homicide in June after extensive study. CNN How Scores of Black Men Were Tortured Into Giving False Confessions by Chicago Police—How Scores of Black Men Were Tortured Into Giving False Confessions by Chicago Police—By 1999, it was "common knowledge," according to U.S. District Judge Milton Shadur, "that in the early to mid-1980s, (Jon Burge) and many officers working under him regularly engaged in the physical abuse and torture of prisoners to extract confessions. Both internal police accounts and numerous lawsuits and appeals brought by suspects alleging such abuse substantiate that those beatings and other means of torture occurred as an established practice, not just on an isolated basis." Alternet |
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Oprah's Bid for Obama Oppresses Gays (Irene Monroe) The battle on the home front The media problem with black lesbians / Global News: Politics—Literature & the Arts |
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Black Votes, the Senate, and Voter Suppression Vote NO on Hans von Spakovsky's Confirmation By The Color Of Change Team |
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Mary Carter Smith is Now an Ancestor Known Nationwide for Reviving and Promoting Storytelling as an Art |
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Just Another Dead
Nigger! Market for Ni$$as Global News:Politics—Literature & the Arts |
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The State of HBCUs for Black Students & Faculty / Wole Soyina Kongi's Harvest / Black Mama, White Son |
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Nuking Nagasaki & Hiroshima, Our Nuking Nevada Incinerating Pretty Girls, Atmospheric Radiation, Our Callousness Americans Remember & Speak Out |
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The media problem with black lesbians By Rev. Irene Monroe The battle on the home front |
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Don't Spend ANY money — Show a sign of solidarity It is outrageous that Walters is still pursuing charges against the Jena 6, and it's even more outrageous that he's being given political cover by the Governor, by Louisiana's District Attorney Association, and even by the New York Times. Anyone can file a complaint against an attorney by sending a letter to the Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board, the organization that has the power to take action against Walters, and we want them to hear from as many of us as possible. We've prepared the letter. All you have to do is add your address and put it in the mail. When you send your letter, please let us know at walterscomplaint@colorofchange.org . If lots of you send letters, we'll use those numbers to get the media to cover the story, adding more pressure on the Disciplinary Board to act. The road to justice in Jena Or Jena, Take Those Nooses Down |
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When I Became a Woman By Vera Ezimora |
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Urban Expressionism (Mwalim*7) / Radicalism in the South Since Reconstruction (Smethurst) |
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Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption Edited By Jane Jeong Trenka, Julia Chinyere Oparah, Sun Yung Shin |
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The whole truth about Barack Obama—Barack Obama has repeatedly made it crystal clear that he is pro Zionist, pro the interests of big business corporations over common people, pro widening the US military/industrial complex through increasing the US military and its budget, and last but certainly not least—he is not opposed to using unilateral US military force to insure what he refers to as "US interests" in other parts of the world. . . . Barack Obama's being biologically an African American is absolutely no legitimate reason to discard honest and in-depth coverage of where he really stands and has stood on life and death economic and military matters affecting this nation and the entire world. Blindly supporting the candidacy of Barack Obama is in fact inverse white racism, and there is nothing in the least bit progressive about that. Barack Obama and those who support him need to be asked the hard and tough questions, not "coddled". . . . Putting a biologically Black face on imperialism and empire as if that changes or ameliorates its horrible affects is entirely unacceptable. As a member of the human family, a Black person, and a US citizen, I am deeply disappointed with Democracy Now, but sadly, not surprised.— Larry Pinkney |
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Articles by Deborah D. Moseley -- Beethoven, the Black Spaniard Review of Amiri Baraka's Essence of Reparations Sam Cooke and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
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Post-Katrina Redevelopment excludes 'poor and working-class black New Orleanians from returning home'—Katrina pummeled nearly 51,700 rentals in the area. More than 29,000 affordable-rent units vanished. The social-service coalition UNITY estimated last year that homelessness had roughly doubled to about 12,000 people across New Orleans and neighboring Jefferson Parish. Yet HUD has opposed a recent proposal in Congress to mandate that all demolished units are comparably replaced in the redevelopment process. Meanwhile, using HUD's data, advocates estimate that restoring the projects would cost less than demolition and redevelopment. . . . The Brookings Institute, a centrist think tank, reports that over two years since Katrina made landfall, the area still counts among the casualties about two fifths of its public schools and two fifths of its hospitals. Of over $2 billion in federal funds allocated for infrastructure restoration in Orleans Parish, only about 30 percent has actually been distributed to projects. 'It's a self-fulfilling prophecy on the government's part,' says Anita Sinha, an attorney with the Advancement Project, one of the groups litigating the class-action suit. 'They're making it such that people can't come home.' Women's International Perspective |
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A 19th-century Don Imus—In 1895 John W. Jacks, president of the Missouri Press Association, wrote an open letter denigrating Black women, claiming that they were "wholly devoid of morality and that they were prostitutes, thieves and liars." He was referring to ALL of them. The letter was sent to Florence Balgarnie of the British Anti-Lynching Committee in an attempt to discredit Ida B. Wells and her anti-lynching campaign in the South. Ida B. Wells had written her book on the number of lynchings in the South and had visited Britain and traveled throughout that country telling the world about lynching in America. The British population was outraged as the British Press gave a lot of copy to Ida B creating great embarrassment in the US. Sooooooooooo, more than 100 years ago, a white man—note that he was with a PRESS association—was calling black women prostitutes or in the truncated version "hos" and this was more than 80 years before black male rappers used the term. Don''t get me wrong, I hate the term but let's just set the record straight. Remember, John Henri Clarke said: History is the clock by which we tell our cultural and political time of day. Let us not be lazy with our history, it can come in handy. |
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A Post-Imus Discussion on Race, Gender, & Corporate Power in America Rudy Mackie |
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Gladys Barker Grauer Defends Artistic Freedom "Free Mumia Abu Jamal" and "Free Leonard Peltier" Removed from Exhibit |
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Our Women Keep our Skies From Falling Six Essays in Support of The Struggle To Smash Sexism/Develop Women By Kalamu ya Salaam "Revolutionary Struggle/Revolutionary Love" / Our Women Keep Our Skies From Falling / Preface: It Aint Easy Debunking Myths / Rape: A Radical Analysis / "Women's Rights Are Human Rights" |
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Charles Tisdale Newspaper and Community Man By C. Liegh McInnis |
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Historical Context for Hip Hop Store in Malawi A Response by Masauko Chipembere Son Father |
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Lives and Times of the Quadroons (Excerpts by Eleanor Early) / For the Love of Rebecca The Murder of Charlie Poole
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The "N-Word" and the Psychology of Black Oppression By Professor Gershom Williams |
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By Keenan Norris Coal, Charcoal, and Chocolate Comedy fresno gone Freedom Vision The Dark Role of Excess in Literary Marketplace |
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Obama's Community Roots—After a transient youth and an earnest search for identity, Obama also found a home—a community with which he continued relationships, a church and a political identity. He honed his talent for listening, learned pragmatic strategy, practiced bringing varied people together and developed a faith in ordinary citizens that still influences his campaign message. He discovered the importance of personal storytelling in politics (and wrote short stories that refined his style). Later, as a politician, he worked closely with community groups (though not as ardently as another community organizer turned politician, the late Senator Paul Wellstone). As a presidential candidate, he frequently refers to his community organizing, asking supporters to treat his campaign as a social movement in which he is just "an imperfect vessel of your hopes and dreams." David Moberg The Nation |
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Flowers for the Trashman —for Grace Claiborne Johnson (Lewis) |
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In Search of an African Identity / Feminism, Black Erotica, & Revolutionary Love Essays by Rudolph Lewis |
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Robert "Kaki" McQueen Baltimore's #1 Ragamuffin Artist & Musician by Rudolph Lewis |
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Pediatrician Eliseo Rosario Dreams Like Roberto Clemente Danny Torres Interviews Dr. Eliseo Rosario Clines Reflects on Clemente, Stargell, and the Team of Color |
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Worship of white supremacy, fundamentalism, and capitalism -- It isn't very likely that Americans will get smarter anytime soon. Politicians know that appealing to their worst instincts is usually a winning formula. The corporate run media is not only unhelpful in enlightening the public but is in fact complicit in keeping them in the dark. The New York Times is once again leading the charge in helping the Bush administration push bogus information. This time around Iran is the bogeyman maligned by unnamed sources. It is déjà vu all over again. Belief in American superiority and particularly the superiority of white people, will always win the day and will always keep the nation ignorant. It isn't surprising that politicians evoke the name of Davy Crockett and peddle nonsense about the sun rotating around the earth. After all, leaders can only be a reflection of the people they serve. --Margaret Kimberley, “Freedom Rider: America the Stupid.” |
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Anna Schmidt, An Examination of the Authenticity of Phillis Wheatley
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Stereotypes and Degradation—"I respect the First Amendment, but rights without responsibility is anarchy, and that's much of what we have now," he said. "It's time for responsible people to stand up and accept responsibility." Despite its focus on Hip-Hop, other media will be face scrutiny at the hearing, which is being held by the subcommittee. "I want to engage not just the music industry but the entertainment industry at large to be part of a solution," said Rush. Witnesses for the hearing include Philippe Dauman of Viacom, Doug Morris of Universal Music Group and Edgar Bronfman Jr. of Warner Music Group. "I want to talk to executives at these conglomerates who've never taken a public position on what they produce," said Rush, who added that it was "surprisingly very difficult to get them to commit to appearing." Despite the struggle to get leaders and artists to commit to the hearing, Rush has received confirmation from one artist, Percy "Master P" Miller. The rap mogul, who started out as a gangsta rapper, has recently made news for his new focus on creating positive images and message in his music. Chris Richburg. Congress To Hold Hearings On Hip-Hop Lyrics. All Hip Hop |
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Time To Impeach Bush / Hillary Turns on the Demo Light / A Case for Condoleezza Rice / Hunger for a Black President / Clinton Obama Ticket in 08 |
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Kam Williams Interviews Colin Roach Author of Light the Flambeau & Son of Poet Eric Roach |
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A Looming Intra-Black Political Civil War? In today's social-political environment, with hostile, outside forces actively recruiting Black "spokespersons" and financing Black "role models," the Jim Crow-era Black worldview is not just obsolete—it is a formula for disaster. The contradiction between the two opposing currents—the Black progressive struggle to transform society vs. celebration of individual Black advancement within the existing framework—became dramatically apparent with the advent of Barack Obama's stealth corporate presidential candidacy. The tragedy also unfolds in the ranks of the Congressional Black Caucus, which in less than a decade has been neutered as an institution for social change by relentless corporate penetration. . . . Our correspondent, who shall remain anonymous, wrote: "I have had uncomfortable feelings at these meetings seeing large photographs on display of Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice as icons alongside those of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. I wondered to myself, Is this the NAACP that W.E.B Du Bois envisioned? Are all African-Americans supposed to admire the servants of blood-soaked imperialism alongside the peacemakers, seeing them as African-Americans of achievement? At this year's...meeting, I heard the African-American president of McDonald's (a company which produces poison for food) speak and be honored. I also heard one of the pastors of our AME church laud BP Amoco for its contributions to NAACP programs. BP Amoco is known to me as a party just as guilty of launching our war of aggression against Iraq as are George Bush and Dick Cheney." Glen Ford, “Letters Column.” Black Agenda Report |
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Tram Nguyen Interviews Brima Conteh |
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Ban Firearms in South Africa / Tin Mining in the Congo War, Murder, Rape . . . All for Your Cell Phone By Stan Cox, AlterNet Yambo Ouologuem, author of Bound to Violence |
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Socialist Joy in the Writing of Langston Hughes by Jonathan Scott
The Niggerization of Palestine By Jonathan Scott What do you call a Black man with a PhD? Nigger. —Malcolm X |
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Jon Scott:
The Staying Power of Rap
Remembering to Not Forget |
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By Alexandria C. Lynch, MS III
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For the Love of Rebecca The Murder of Charlie Poole by the Black Legion By Mary Teresa Coulter
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An excerpt by Crystal Wilkinson
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A Hurricane for Irene A Story by Jessie Calliste / Short Stories |
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Diary of Zena el-Khalil: Lebanese Artist Living in Beirut Petitiononline / Army Chief Brig. Gen. Dan Halutz warned that "nothing is safe" in Lebanon. |
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A short story by Onyeka Nwelue Interview with Onyeka Nwelue Onyeka Nwelue Interviews Jude Dibia |
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Thoughtful Notes By G. David Schwartz:
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Fighting the Sickle Cell Anemia Stigma By J.R. Perry III Cure every cell—a sickle cell support group / Related file: Anarcha's Story |
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The Cultural Politics of Paul Robeson and Richard Wright Theorizing the African Diaspora By Floyd W. Hayes, III |
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Kam Williams Interviews Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs Who Starred as Freddie “Boom-Boom” Washington in TV-series Welcome Back, Kotter |
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Nagin's Reelection as Mayor of New Orleans Anatomy of a Civil Rights Protest By Mtangulizi Sanyika Katrina New Orleans Flood Index Gulf Coast Evacuees Have the Right to Return
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The Roots and Influences of Modern Urban Rituals By Mwalim*7) |
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Articles by Charles Chea Graffiti
Takeover, Bombing, & Racism |
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The mayor’s race is about the next four generations for black folks, not simply the next four years By J.B. Borders |
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When Music is a Poet's Tool: Tame turmoil. Transform all the bile-flavored anger and anxiety into words. Vent. Review the outburst to discover the pattern the turmoil never told you it had. Reshape the pattern into stanzas or lyrics, dramatic monologues, and narratives. Polish. Repolish. Publish. There are times when poems must respond to natural disasters and subsequent pandemics to the reflux acid of war, racism, genocide. At those times, it is only normal for poets to let the turmoil roll. If you want a poem rather than the droppings of a vatic pigeon, you must dance in a music that takes you to the other side of natural disaster and national tragedy. Jerry Ward, Jr., "The Katrina Papers," DrumVoices, Spring-Summer-Fall 2006 |
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Why I Support the Latino Demonstrators By Amin Sharif Dark Child of the Fourth World Afro-America & The Fourth World The Fourth World: In the Belly of the Beast |
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Everybody Hates Social Welfare By Rodney D. Foxworth, Jr. |
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Rodney D. Foxworth, Jr.: School Daze A Naïve Political Treatise A Report on a Gathering at Red Emma's A Depravity of Logic Statistics on the Inequities |
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Send contributions to: ChickenBones: A Journal / 13219 Kientz Road / Jarratt, VA 23867 -- I became aware of Rudy Lewis’ labor of love a few short months ago during a visit to Kalamu ya Salaam’s e-drum listserv. As soon as I saw the title of the journal I knew it was about Black folks, and the power of the written word. A quick click took me into a journal that’s long on creativity, highlighting well-known, little known, and a little known writers, and commitment to the empowerment of Black folks. I contacted Rudy to ask if he’d consider publishing some of my work. His response was immediate, and a couple of days after I’d forwarded some poems to him—they were part of ChickenBones. What I didn’t know was that this journal has been surviving for the last five years with very little outside financial support. . . If we want journals like this to “thrive” we need to support them with more than our website hits, praise, and submissions for publication consideration. —Peace,
Mary E. Weems (January 2007)
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Back to New Orleans, Going Home: Post Katrina By Kiini Inura Salaam Kiini Ibura Salaam Tells All from Mexico By Jane Musoke-Nteyafas |
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There's No Racism Here? A Black Woman in the Dominican Republic By Kiini Ibura Salaam Reflections on Fiji The Dance of Love |
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Rebellions of African People in the Diaspora Painting by Kimathi Donkor |
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Remembering My Adult Education Students The Learning Place Northwest (1990-1993) Poems Learning to be Black Heroes of the Hood Thoughts from the Hood On the Future |
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Where Do We Go from Here—Chaos or Community By Stanford Lewis Martin and Malcolm on Nonviolence and Violence By James H. Cone The Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. From The Center For Nonviolent Social Change, Inc. |
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National Security, the Media, & Cynthia McKinney By Andrea Roberts |
| The Fourth World: In the Belly of the Beast The Fourth World and the Marxists On the Fourth World Letters from Young Activists |
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at Howard University March 23-24, 2006 By Marvin X Marvin X Table Artist Profile: Marvin X Should BAM Conference at Howard University Be Boycotted? Black Dada Nihilimus |
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Is
Gay Marriage Anti Black???
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By Jonathan Scott Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we’re as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.—Octavia Butler |
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Uncle Jeff and His Contempos The Eternal Linkage of Literature and Society
Creative Conflict in African-American Thought Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington W.E.B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey By Wilson Jeremiah Moses |
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Slavery and the American Economy By Waldron H. Giles, Ph.D. African America – A Fourth World Black Destiny and William Bennett |
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An Open Letter to the African American Community By Irene Monroe A
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Rev. Irene Monroe: Kwanzaa Message 2004
A queer year in the black community |
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Best
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Were whites really more likely than blacks to die in Katrina? Race and the Casualties of Hurricane Katrina By Pat Sharkey The Contradictions of Black Comprador Rule Missing School in the Big Easy |
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Thoughtful Notes By G. David Schwartz:
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Osundare's Universe of Burdens By Niyi Juliad |
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DO RIGHT WOMEN Black Women, Eroticism and Classic Blues Feminism, Black Erotica & Revolutionary Love Essay by Rudolph Lewis Responses to Feminism, Black Erotica, & Revolutionary Love |
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Filiberto Ojeda Rios & Puerto Rican Sovereignty By Louis Reyes Rivera
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Purple Ribbon Cross News No. 2, November 11, 2005 Jeannette Drake, LCSW, Publisher |
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By John Maxwell |
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John Maxwell Table Washington's Tar Baby Lies, Malice, and Machetes “Imagine! Niggers Speaking French!!!” |
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A Letter to the Red States Our Split Will Be Beneficial to the Nation By A Thinking American |
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Bill H.R.40: The Commission to Study the Reparations Proposal By M. Quinn |
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Race and Reparations / Race Racism Reparations / N'Cobra / Benefits of Whiteness / Boukman and His Comrades |
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Film Review: Exploring
Sexuality from a Black Perspective: Mya B’s Silence:
In Search of Black
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Willie Ricks 60s Civil Rights Worker Beaten at Morehouse Message From Imam Jamil Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown)
H. Rap Brown's Die Nigger Die! Fred Hampton Jr Interviews Imam Jamil Al-Amin |
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By Brenda C. Wilson |
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Forgotten & Under-Appreciated Black Women By Sandra L. West |
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A Reflection on Jubilee By Jonathan Scott If White America Had a Bill Cosby The Staying Power of Rap Margaret Walker Chronology |
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Kam Hei Tsuei Hurricane Katrina: Did the Chinese Help Chinatown Blues |
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Kenyon Farrow We Real Cool? Connecting the Dots Is Gay Marriage Anti Black |
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Threats to Veteran Benefits for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder A Message from Veteran Tiger Davis |
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For Stan Tookie Williams (poem) Responses to the State Murder of Stan Tookie Williams By Michael Kroll, Eric L. Wattree, Sr., Marvin X and Joe Veale While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free." -- Eugene V. Debs |
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June, The Colonel's Youngest Daughter Dont Kill Mother! The Wondrous Wolf Stories by Stoyan Valev Translated from Bulgarian by: Nevena Pascaleva |
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Corporate Plantation: Political Repression and the Hampton Model
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S Renee Greene Blinder Justice How Columbus Georgia Can Lead the Way for America in the Matter of Racial Profiling |
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The Cruelty of Age in Lorenzo Thomas' “Tirade” Instructions for Your New Osiris remembering professor lorenzo thomas (1944-2005) By Van G. Garrett |
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An Examination of the Authenticity of Phillis Wheatley By Anna Schmidt A Review by Joyce and Leon Nower Arthur J. Graham. Subliminal Racism, Essays. |
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On
Richard Wright and Our Contemporary Situation
By Jerry W. Ward, Jr. |
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Tom Dent Speaks Tom Dent Bio My Father Is Dead Jessie Covington Dent When I Do That Thing
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A Return to the Civil Rights Movement By Tom Dent Reviewed by Rudolph Lewis |
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What Does It Mean to Be Black in the 21st Century Reflections on Senegal and Australia By Danille K. Taylor |
| Marvin X: A Critical Look at the Father of Muslim American Literature (Preface) Edited by El Muhajir (Marvin X ) Introduction Dedication Contents The Contributors Bibliography of Marvin X |
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Essays on African Identity What Does It Mean to Be Black in the 21st Century ( Senegal and Australia) By Danille K. Taylor I Am Memory By Jerhretta Dafina Suite A Seminarian’s Religious Journey to Ghana by Jennifer McGill The Forts and Castles of Ghana by Kalamu ya Salaam Remembering
Chinwe & Teaching in Nigeria In Search of an African Identity by Rudolph Lewis In Search Of Our Culture An American Travels to Marrakech by Cliff Chandler |
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Sussex County: A Tale of Three Centuries Compiled by Workers of the Writers’ Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Virginia. Illustrated. American Guide Series. Sponsored by The Sussex County School Board. Talmage D. Foster, Superintendent. 1942 Public Education in Sussex County in Black and White The Official History of Jerusalem Baptist Church |
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More Exciting News from 17 Poets! Yusef Komunyakaa & Lee Grue Will Read in New Orleans |
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A Story of Conjure By F. Roy Johnson From the Shadows Herb Remedies Early Manhood Hard Twenty Years Full Time Practice Moves on Highway |
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An Annual Clingan Christmas Letter, 2005 from Rev. Ralph G. Clingan, Ph.D. |
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