Urgent Meeting at 12 Noon Thursday July 15th WILL TRANFORMER FILMING DESTROY HISTORIC ROSENWALD BUILDING SCHEDULED FOR REHAB ???

Posted by Mark S. Allen on July 15, 2010 at 10:51am

From Mark S. Allen, Board Member of The Black Wall Street-Chicago Economic Empowerment Project, Founder of The Black Leadership Development Institute, BLDI

THURSDAY, JULY 15th, 2010

312-624-8351 or cell 773-392-0165

WILL TRANFORMER FILMING DESTROY HISTORIC ROSENWALD BUILDING SCHEDULED FOR REHAB ???

Transformer 3 movie production comes to Bronzeville 47th Street

Attention: Bronzeville and Chicago Land Area

Meet us on the block (47th and Michigan Avenue) Northwest corner news stand 12 Noon - 1PM - Thurs

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WHITE AMERICA CALL ON SUPERMAN TO SAVE THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM - FORGET ABOUT IT!

Posted by Enoch Mubarak on July 14, 2010 at 10:56pm

OVER AT: http://edu2010.ning.com/ white America are taking pledges to watch a film due out this fall called: “ WAITING ON SUPERMAN TO COME” The film is about the current condition of the public school system and where white America fits in.

I haven’t seen the screening film but I did watch the post film screening discussions.

If the post film screening discussion in any way mirrors the true reflection of the film and if a hint is sufficient for the wise then FORGET ABOUT IT! White America knows f

You Got Next! (Real Talk For The Hip Hop Generation) The New Book by Kamal Imani

Posted by Kamal Imani on July 14, 2010 at 9:10pm

For teenagers and young adults coming up in today’s hip hop generation, You Got Next is a must read! It deals with the teen related subjects of drugs, sex, peer pressure, goals and dreams, faith, surviving the streets and more! When it comes to surviving the potholes and obstacles of the streets and growing up as an African American teenager, Kamal Imani knows what’s up and brings it to you with real talk!This is the perfect book to get the conversation started or to get you reflecting on your o

Parable of the Poet

Posted by Marvin X on July 14, 2010 at 7:44pm

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Parableof the Poet

Parable ofthe Poet

It is not about money, fame or fortune.Not about ego, greed and domination. It is not about the teacher but thestudents who are taught the higher things of life, above the thingsbelow. It is not about attacking the politician, the man of religion oreducation, for there is a duty that comes to the poet--beyond nurseryrhymes and beats, pussy and dick jingles and a turn of phrase, a cutemetaphor or simile.

It is beyond all this in the realm o

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Why Governor Quinn Singles Out Walls Candidacy - Latest In Attacks On Black Men and Boys !!

Posted by Mark S. Allen on July 14, 2010 at 8:28am

Why Governor Quinn Singles Out Walls Candidacy - Latest In Attacks On Black Men and Boys !!

Marksallen

One of the first community organizers to work with Barack Obama in Chicago for over 20 years. Now Associate Editor of The South Street Journal Newspaper and 37 year activist/journalist, recently selected as 2010 Who's Who In Black Chicago. (312) 624-8351 or cell (773) 392-0165

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Now that Independent gubernatorial candidate Scott Lee Cohen's challenge has been withdrawn and Cohen will offic

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Activists Remember Unsolved 9 year old Mya Lyons' Southside Murder Two Years Ago Today July 14th,

Posted by Mark S. Allen on July 14, 2010 at 4:41am

Activists Remember Unsolved 9 year old Mya Lyons' Southside Murder Two Years Ago Today July 14th,

Marksallen

One of the first community organizers to work with Barack Obama in Chicago for over 20 years. Now Associate Editor of The South Street Journal Newspaper and 37 year activist/journalist, recently selected as 2010 Who's Who In Black Chicago.

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COMMUNITY ACTIVIST REMEMBERS TWO YEARS AGO ON THIS DAY (JULY 14TH) LITTLE MYA LYONS BRUTAL MURDER ON

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Old School 70's Party Fundraiser, Saturday July 24th at Historic Regal Theater

Posted by Mark S. Allen on July 13, 2010 at 8:47pm

OLD SCHOOL 70'S PARTY AND FUNDRAISER

SATURDAY, JULY 24th !!

Regal Theater 1645 East 79th Street

New School come out and see how Old School Did it in the 70s

Watch Old Movies - Foxy Brown, Shaft, Blackular, etc.
Do the bump, rubber band, spank, soul train line...

$20 in advance $25 at the door -- DJ HOT

Tickets at SSJ/BWS - 449 E 35th Street (Lobby Level)

TOG - 14524 S Halsted - Harvey
So East Chamber of Commerce - 8334 S Stony
Team 15 U - 2440 East 63rd Street

70's style best dress contest
70s dress option

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Chicago's Roseland Community Hospital's Open House Wednesday, July 14th

Posted by Mark S. Allen on July 13, 2010 at 12:44pm

sthurman@roselandhospital.org

773-995-3000

Sharon Thurman, Director of External Affairs

Roseland Community Hospital

PRESS RELEASE

Chicago, IL (July 8, 2010) –

ROSELAND COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: THE TRANSFORMATION

An open house and tours of the facilities will be held Wednesday, July 14, 2010 from 11am-12pm beginning in the Multi-Purpose Conference Room at 45 W. 111^th Street, Chicago, Il 60628.

Chicago Southside Community Hospital Perseveres Through Economic Turmoil to Restore Image and Continue Excellence in

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Nigeria: Past, Present, Future - The way forward*

Posted by Akintokunbo Adejumo on July 13, 2010 at 9:20am

* Invited Guest Speech at theJoshua Generation Summit organised by the Town Hall Meetings Project (THMP) andTimeless Magazine held on Saturday 26^th June 2010, Lagos, Nigeria.

† Global Coordinator, ChampionsFor NigeriaInternational

‡‡ I owe a very large part of this section to Dr Femi Ajayi’s paper titled “Nigerian Politics-Past, Present, andFuture” Presented at the 46^th Independence Anniversary of Nigeriaorganised by Nigerian Association of Southern California, Colton, Californiaand published in N

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Rev. Al Sharpton Keynote Speaker For Tribute To Rev. Al Sampson Sunday, July 18th

Posted by Mark S. Allen on July 12, 2010 at 11:19pm

The Rev. Al Sampson of Fernwood United Methodist Church is a man of many words. The Rev. always have a lot to say and he have accomplished a lot a long the way.

Rev. Dr. Albert Sampson is an internationally known and respected icon and leader renowned as one of the most insightful and inspirational motivators in the field today. WGN -TV describes him as a spiritual leader whose message of leadership and self development has inspired millions in the United States and in 72 countries around the wor

Parable of Walter Riley, Civil Rights Attorney, Beaten and Jailed During Oakland Riot

Posted by Marvin X on July 12, 2010 at 9:14pm

Monday, July 12, 2010

Parableof Walter Riley

Parable ofWalter Riley

PlatoNegro's friend and supporter, Attorney Walker Riley, was beaten andarrested by OPD pigs as he attempted to enter his office on Broadway asrioters and looters ransacked the Footlocker next door.

Thelegendary civil rights attorney and humanitarian works closely withactor Danny Glover on radical social projects. Walter, wife anddaughter, were in Haiti on the day of the earthquake. The Bay Area wasconcerned for their lives until we

Repairing Ourselves - Preparing for Liberation

Posted by Brotha Lukata on July 12, 2010 at 7:54pm

Habari za jioni [Good Evening] New Afrikans

blog talk radio link

http://www.blogtalk radio.com/ wrbg/2010/ 06/23/gullahgeec hee-news

To achieve we must believe! unfortunately belief only does not create achievement. at the same time, truly reparations is not a selfish reward. truly reparations is not for you or me. reparations is for the generations unborn.

Verse 2 - Lift Every Voice & Sign

Stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet with a stea

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Bethlehem Star Church - HOPE (CEDA-LIHEAP) Program Starts Monday July 19th

Posted by Mark S. Allen on July 12, 2010 at 4:01pm

Bethlehem Star M.B. Church

9231 South Cottage Grove, Chicago, Ill 60619

Rev. Roosevelt Watkins III, Pastor

773-487-8441 - Fax 773-487-8603

For Immediate Release

July 12, 2010

For More Information (773) 487-8441

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

Bethlehem Star Church's HOPE Organization sites' (CEDA/LIPHEAP) Summer Cooling, Light Bill Assistance Program will begin on Monday, July 19th until the funds are exhausted. You may be eligible to receive a one time payment up to $150.00 on your light bill. In order to

The 2010 Gathering of the Diaspora

Posted by TheBlackList on July 12, 2010 at 1:19am

PRESS RELEASE

A Gathering of the Diaspora

JULY 23-25 , 2010

Charleston, South Carolina

The South Carolina Council of Elders and the Sixth Region Diaspora Caucus Secretariat (SRDC) invite you to the annual conference of the Diaspora being held this year in Charleston, South Carolina. This SRDC gathering is held in various regions of the country and this year, for the first time, we will be in South Carolina. As most of you know, the African Diaspora was the mostly involuntary and scattered mo

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"President" Obama Versus "Community Organizer" Standards In Quinn Endorsement

Posted by Mark S. Allen on July 11, 2010 at 6:19pm

As one of the first community organizers to work with Barack Obama when he first came to Chicago, I have the authority to state without reservation that "President" Obama has lost the foundation he developed as "Organizer" Obama.

His latest endorsement of Illinois Governor Pat Quinn is proof that "President" Obama set a real low standard for this Quinn endorsement than the "high" standards he used to have making sure that candidates truly earned the grassroots support from the communty organizers

Wisdom of Plato Negro at SF Theatre Festival

Posted by Marvin X on July 11, 2010 at 2:16pm

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Wisdomof Plato Negro at SF Theatre Festival

Performance time: 4:25-4:55
Location: SOMA Room
Metreon 2nd Floor
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Parable of Oakland's Day of Absence

Posted by Marvin X on July 10, 2010 at 12:09pm

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Parableof Oakland's Day of Absence

Parable ofOakland's Day of Absence

Brother Gregory Fieldstold Plato Negro about Oakland's Day of Absence, the day when theverdict in the Oscar Grant murder trial was to be announced. Gregorysaid he was in a meeting with Mayor Ron Dellums when the Mayor received atelephone call about 3pm, informing him the verdict had been reachedand would be announced at 4:30pm. The Mayor excused himself from themeeting. Gregory departed to 14th and Broadwa

Parable of I Am Oscar Grant

Posted by Marvin X on July 9, 2010 at 2:20pm

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Parableof I Am Oscar Grant

Parable of IAm Oscar Grant
The verdict was announced at 4pm.Guilty of involuntary manslaughter. With a gun enhancement, it carriesfive to fourteen years. City officials blocked the organizer's of thepeople's rally from using Frank Ogawa Plaza in front of city hall. They"staged" a rally of their own that was scarcely attended. The people'srally set up in the middle of the street at 14th andBroadway, the crossroads of Oakland, also site of Plato Negr

Thursday, June 3, 2010 Wisdom of Plato Negro at SF Theatre Festival Marvin X's Reader's Theatre presentsWisdom of Plato Negro at SF Theatre Festival, Sunday, August 8, 2010 Accompanied by Ras

Posted by Marvin X on July 8, 2010 at 3:30pm

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Wisdom of Plato Negro at SF Theatre Festival

Marvin X's Reader's Theatre

presents

Wisdom of Plato Negro at SF Theatre Festival, Sunday, August 8, 2010

Accompanied by Rashidah Sabreen, guitar, vocals, Raynetta Rayzetta and Linda Johnson, choreographers/dancers, andParadise, poet/reader

The Wisdom of Plato Negro,Parables/fables isat once both gutsy and crude, vulgar and righteous, bodaciousand common. Marvin X tares at your heart while piling crapon yourhead. He makes you want to

Parable of Oakland at the Precipice

Posted by Marvin X on July 7, 2010 at 9:30pm

Parable of Oakland atthe Precipice

Downtown stores and offices areboarded. Store windows have Oscar Grant posters--something learned fromthe '65 Watts Riot: Me Soul Broder too! The OPD is out in full force,even Homeland Security is on the street. Undercover police areeverywhere, you can smell them. This is the power of a people who havedone nothing yet. They are the victims of violence, yet because theyseek justice, they are now the villain, the police are the good guys inwhite hats.

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