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Parable of Da Corner

Parable of DaCorner

WAKE UP EVERYBODY - HAROLD MELVIN & THE BLUENOTES (1975)

Plato Negro asks conscious teachers to follow his example by going to the street cornersof their communities and sharing with youth and adults, bydisseminating knowledge and

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A Poem for Dessie Woods/Rashidah Muhammad

APoem for Dessie Woods/Rashidah Muhammad

The following poem by Kalamu ya Salaam honors Dessie X. Woods/Rashidah Muhammad(RIP), a warrior queen who killed her rapist in Georgia before moving toOakland where she worked with the Uhuru Movement, Marvin X,

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Parable of Jazz

Parable of Jazz






Jazz saved me
this night
jazz
saved me
I was ready to go
jazz
held my arm
reached into my soul
saved me.
--mx

He was so happy to be born a North American African. A little sad he wasn't born in New Orleans, but happy just the same to claim his

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Parable of Jazz

Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Parable of Jazz

Parable of Jazz
Jazz saved me
this night
jazz
saved me
I was ready to go
jazz
held my arm
reached into my soul
saved me.
--mx

He was so happy to be born a North American African. A little sad he wasn't born in New Orleans, b

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Parable of Wannabe Actor, Part II

Parable ofthe Wannabe Actor, Part Two
A great actor once said,and it may have been Sir Lawrence Oliver, "The best part of theatre is
getting drunk after the show." I agree totally with him. I would never
get drunk before the show or during the show (so

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Memorial Day

Monday, May 31, 2010

Memorial Day


Iam a veteran
Not of foreign battlefields
Like my father in worldwar one
My uncles in world war two
And Korea
my friends fromVietnam
And Congo “police action”
But veteran none the less
Exiledand jailed because I refused
To visi

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Marvin X as the Father of Muslim American Literature

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The New Look of Public Education - Last Hired no longer First Fired. Why?

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Raising The Cry War

http://www.isiswisdom.com/forum/topic/show?id=1995725%3ATopic%3A152685&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_topic


Thisamazing interview was done back in 1985 with a former KGB agent who
was trained in subversion techniques. He explains the 4 basic steps to
sociall

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Parable of Stormy Weather

Parable of Stormy Weather

Stormy Weather was the little boy's favorite song. He remembers going to the drive-in theatre in his dad's Model T Ford to watch the all black movie starring Lena Horne. The movie came out in 1943 and he came out in 1944, so

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Parable of Mother Coretta Scott King

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Parable ofMother Coretta Scott King

I remember sitting in thepew of Riverside Church at the memorial for Dr. Betty Shabazz,
listening and looking at Myrlie Evers-Williams and Coretta Scott King
standing at the podium. I wondered at th

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Is anything ever beyond reform and who says so?

http://media-newswire.com/release_1118550.htmlBeyond Reforms: The Politics of Higher Education Transformation in AfricaIn "Beyond Reforms: The Politics of Higher Education Transformation in Africa" a new essay in African Studies Review, Tade Akin Ain

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Parable of Malcolm's Killer

Parable ofMalcolm's Killer

He was rewarded for his dastardlycrime by a dastardly society universally known for murder and mayhem.Why wouldn't he be rewarded with his freedom after killing one ofAmerica's most dangerous men, simply because he spoke th

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Parable of the Hunid Dollar Dope Book

Parable ofthe One Hunid Dollar Dope Book
His book was dope. Athirty hitter. Raw dope, from Peru direct, no cut, no shake, straightdope, killer, overdose dope. Give me the dope that killed my buddy dope.Make bells ring in yo ears dope. One hunid dolla

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Black Bird Press/Academy of Da Corner Benefit Read in/teach in

To celebrate the publication of The Wisdom of Plato Negro, Parables/Fables, I am asking poets, writers and community people to join in reading from the parables/fables. The followi

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Parable of Iraq

Friday, April 16, 2010

Parable ofIraq

The war in Iraq has not begun. It shall beginwhen the Americans leave--now what day might that be? They are still inGermany, Japan, and elsewhere. They ain't in Vietnam, ha? But in Iraq,they have merely opened Pand

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Parable of Desirelessness

Parable ofDesirelessness

During his life, he'd hadeverything, money, dope, women, more love than any man could handle. Inshort, he was spoiled rotten. Now he was bored to tears. Maybe he wasjust an ungrateful bastard, since his cup had run over with

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Parable of the Girl Ignut of Men

Parable ofGirl Ignut of Men

There was a girl who didn't knowmen. Her mother and father were too busy doing drugs, so they didn'thave time to teach her about men or anything else. In fact, theyabandoned her, so she grew up in foster care.

She was diagno

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Parable of the Witch Doctors

Parable ofthe Witch Doctors



Witch doctors fromaround the world are in Oakland for the 40th anniversary of theAssociation of Black Psychologists at the Marriott. As in the case ofHarry Belafonte’s Gathering a few months ago, hardly anyone in Oaklandkno

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Parable of the Poor Righteous Teacher

Parable of the Poor Righteous Teacher

for Haki Mahdubuti (Don L. Lee)


Sooner or later, they always come forthe teacher. After all, the more popular, the more dangerous. The more
serious and sincere, the more a threat to the bourgeoisie whose
philosophy i

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