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The Character of a Champion: Nelson Mandela at 93

    Pan African Commentary From the Sixth Region Diaspora Caucus (SRDC)

By David L. Horne, Ph.D                                                                             

 organizingsrdc@aol.com                                                                        

 www.srdcinternational.org                                                                                   

On July 18, 2011 of this week, Mr. Nelson Mandela—Madiba—will hav

Hustler's Guide to the Game Called Life

If you want to learn about motivation and inspiration, don't spend all that money going to workshops and seminars, just go stand at 14th and Broadway and watch Marvin X at work. He's Plato teaching on the streets of Oakland.--Ishmael Reed, poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, professor emeritus, UC Berkeley

STYLING TOUR-DE-FORCE BRICK CITY VARSITY RETURNS THIS SUMMER WITH THE “15 MINUTES OF FAME” PARTY ON JULY 23, 2011 AT THE RAM GALLERY IN NEWARK, NJ

As a sequel to the “Lights, Camera, FASHION: The Profile Party” this Spring, Brick City Varsity is once again giving the people its chance at stardom.

Newark, NJ – July 21, 2011 - Scheduled for Saturday, July 23rd, “15 Minutes of Fame” will treat attendees to $30 on-site photo shoots and allow them to peruse the vintage clothing line created by Br

July 21, 2011

Raynard Jackson

As the two supposed premier civil rights groups gather this week and next for their annual conventions (the N.A.A.C.P and the National Urban League, respectively), I want to challenge their agendas and then pose a few questions for them to answer.

When civil rights are discussed in the media, you never have the reporter define what civil rights are?  When you see Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton described as civil rights leaders, what does that really mean?  Who made

The ruler of the world has spoken. “Kaddafi has got to go.”  So US and other North Atlantic Terrorist Organisation (NATO) bombs rain down on Libya killing men, women and children in alarming numbers. So the US and NATO, primarily Great Britain, France and Italy, despite their collapsing economy, spare no expense to try to kill Kaddafi. “If we can’t kill Kaddafi, let’s kill his daughter, his son, his grandchildren, his fellow Libyans.”  Despite the demonizations, bombings and the merciless killi

CAACBA congratulates South Sudan

CAACBA (the Committee Against Arab Colonialism in Black Africa) hereby heartily congratulates the people and Government of the Republic of South Sudan for winning their independence. We salute their courage and persistence in waging their protracted liberation war, which began in 1955; a war that has finally liberated them from the dungeons of Arab colonialism; Arab dungeons where, throughout the last two centuries, they suffered enslavement, racism, Arabizatio

Greetings Family,

How are you?  I am fine.  I am back in Egypt--the Black Land of Africa.  This 
makes trip number twenty-two for me.  I planned this trip long ago and then 
had many second thoughts.  I did not get much support and I ended up with a 
travel agent from hell.  A revolution took place here and I wanted to cancel. 
 But it seems like I am just supposed to be here.

I have a small but brilliant group this year.  Among the people with me is 
the distinguished African mathematician Dr.