LAST DECEMBER 2011 I MADE A BIG DECISION AND TOOK THE URGE TO GO AND VISIT GHANA-ACCRA. THIS 'ARTS AND CULTURAL' ORIENTATION TRIP UNTIL MID-JANUARY 2012, WAS POSSIBLE THROUGH DONATIONS AND SELLING MY CARDS AND PAINTINGS. THIS PROJECT CONSISTED OF A VISIT TO 'OTIAKROM', ONE OF TRIBES-VILLAGES WHICH IS IN A PROCEEDING DEVELOPMENT AND MUNICIPAL SURROUNDINGS IN- AND OUTSIDE ACCRA'S COMMUNITIES. MY STROLLING UP AND DOWN ALLEYS -VALLEYS, MARKETPLACES, ART CENTERS, DISCUSSING WITH SOUL-MATES, INDULGIN
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By Gloria Dulan-Wilson
I hope I have sufficiently shocked you to attention, because there is a disaster brewing right under our noses, right in the Black family community, that has been flying low under the radar.
As a matter of fact, I and others would probably not have become aware of it had it not been announced at Rev. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Push 15th Anniversary Wall Street Initiative, during a panel discussion on the disappearing Black media.
Talk about a shock! When James L. Winston, Execut
by Rev. John J. Raphael, SSJ
Howard University, Washington, DC
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Do you know what the leading cause of death in the African American Community since 1973 is? Think about it for a minute. Is it heart disease-2,266,789 deaths since 1973, cancer-1,638,350, or accidents-370,723? Is it AIDS-203,695, or violent crimes-306, 313? There is one possibility that is often overlooked. It happens 1452 times a day in our community. It has taken over 13 million Black lives within the last 30 years. by Mary Neal ~
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Troy Anthony Davis (Oct. 9, 1968 - ? )
What do American decision makers do whenever We the People begin to unite and press for social and economic justice? They create a diversion. The Vietnam War diverted attention and momentum from the civil rights movement when African Americans, whites and others joined together at the Poor People's March and other justice initiatives. Today people are UNITING to protest wars without provocation, mass incarcerat
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Well, my colleague (Sam Friedman) has challenged me to identify the Marxist ideologues that I refer to in my most recent blurb. The problem with friends is that they hold us accountable. And if confession, as my Baptist friends constantly remind me, is good for the soul, then let me here and now confess –that yes once I was a Marxist ideologue. Where do I begin –at the beginning I suppose.
Most of you know that I was in the military, a Viet Nam veteran, and duri
But there’s another war being waged that will seldom receive worldwide news coverage commensurate with the above wars and never be given the funding that these other “perceived conflicts” obtain… Or for that matter a fraction of it…
That is… the war for the lives of A Generation of Black men living (and dying)
by Junious Ricardo Stanton ~
“You know it’s funny when it rains it pours, they got money for wars but they can’t feed the poor.” Tupac Shakur
The duplicity and hypocrisy of the US government is mind blowing. Doing the bidding of the corporations and special interests who bribe them to keep them fat and content, the president and Congress have initiated policies that have driven the US
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