This piece was initially written as an email to two Elders who have often bemoaned the lack of unity that we as African people have demonstrated over these many generations since the Ma'afa (a Twi word meaning "great disaster", used by Pan-Afrikan historians and activists to describe the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, the Arab Slave Trade, the Scramble for Africa and the suffering African people have endured as a result). I meant it as a helpful response to their question (which was probably rheto
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By Gloria Dulan-Wilson ~
The Original Title from the Medgar Evers Coalition was "Medgar Evers Poised for CUNY Takeover". But, I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing. I just received a communique from the Medgar Evers Coalition, who have been struggling for more than three years now to get Pollard removed. So now that there is a CUNY take over in the works,should we rejoice, or should we be alarmed. After all, they could have remedied this situation three years ago, once th
Mark S. Allen
Chairman Of The Board
Black Wall Street Chicago Organization
Chief of Staff To National Chairman Rev. Michael Carter
National Black Wall Street USA
4655 South King Drive, Suite 203
Chicago, Illinois 60653
773-392-0165
markallen@blackwallstreet.org
Mark S. Allen recently included in the 2012 Edition of Who's Who In Black Chicago as "one of Chicago's Most Influential Voices In The Black Community
Chairman Of The Board
Black Wall Street Chicago Organization
Chief of Staff To National Chairman Rev. Michael Carter
National Black Wall Street USA
4655 South King Drive, Suite 203
Chicago, Illinois 60653
773-392-0165
markallen@blackwallstreet.org
Mark S. Allen recently included in the 2012 Edition of Who's Who In Black Chicago as "one of Chicago's Most Influential Voices In The Black Community
NATIONAL BLACK WALL STREET LEADERS APPLAUD REV. JESSE L. JACKSON, SR ON HIS VISIT TO TULSA, OKLAH
Call To Action WIN!
Illinois Treasurer Rutherford Re-Adopts Citizen
CRA Complaint Form!
Illinois Treasurer Dan Rutherford has re-adopted and re-posted the Citizen CRA (Community Reinvestment Act) Complaint Form, negotiated by the Community Reinvestment Organizing Project (COP), two years along as a bank accountability process for Illinois citizens with concerns by limited or non-existent CRA activity of state depositories. (SEE ATTACHED).
COP leaders became aware that the f
I received an e-mail from Wallace "Gator" Bradley, regarding an e-mail that was being circulated regarding a proposed Monday afternoon meeting with Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr at Rainbow/PUSH regarding solutions to crime, assuming that I was overlooked and may indeed be welcome to this Monday's meeting or to provide some input.
The first things that sticks out to me are "activists" and "community organizers" missing from the subject matter, text of the meeting and systematic part of the plan of act