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The Black Arts Movement attends City of Oakland's Inauguration Ceremony

Black Arts Movement Wellness Director, Empress Diamond, Oakland Mayor Libby Shaaf and BAM co-founder Marvin X, aka the Chancellor

I am a bit lost, in fact more than lost. I am aghast at the inanity and lack of decorum being spread around by the supposedly “educated” Nigerians, just because of political opportunism and expediency. Do we have a problem with "academic certificates", especially of our leaders and political aspirants?

Why do we always elude the Truth and Honesty in all we do? Why is it difficult for us to tell and accept at the Truth as a people? We see the Truth/Fact right in our face, yet we turn away our eyes

It’s the start that stops most of us

resolutions are dropped

as glasses are raised

in a New Year’s toast to us

most mean well

most can hardly tell

why most mostly fail

while most others mostly boast to us

it’s the start that stops most of us

We resolve to consume less

get our shoes from Payless

pay less time to daytime soap stress

and more time to our night-time love nest

love less needless drama

and give more love to our baby’s mama

We resolve to lose those extra pounds

round by round

to f

FATHERS INCORPORATED ANNOUNCES MULTIPLE EVENTS LEADING UP TO NATIONAL "SAVE OUR SONS" NIGHT

-- Leading national nonprofit for the promotion of Responsible Fatherhood and Director of the National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse, Fathers Incorporated, announces "don't miss' events encouraging fathers to spend time with their children - building up to the first National Save Our Sons Night on February 6, 2015! --

Planning meeting with James Beau Gaudreau, Janks Morton, Kenneth Braswell, Troy N

Welcome to Our World Mayor DeBlasio

New York Mayor DeBlasio has a black wife. He has a black son. Now, the New York Police Department  (NYPD) has all but declared him an honorary black. Welcome to our world Mayor DeBlasio. The police obviously want to continue the harassment and killing of innocent  unarmed blacks. It is apparent they are trying to drum up white support and thus weaken the popular mayor politically. They have attacked him by turning their backs on him at the funeral of one of the

By Verla Wiley: Like Michael Brown and Eric Garner, I am African American. The circumstances involving the deaths of these two young men are horrendous as are the unconscionable efforts made to avoid a proper hearing in each case. Unfortunately, Brown and Garner made the ultimate sacrifice in a system that is deeply flawed. Instead of utilizing the more open and transparent public preliminary hearing process, secret grand juries failed to indict the police officer responsible for the shooting de

The Arts & Music Present "We Can't Breathe: Voice of the Voiceless" (Spoken Word Poetry & Hip Hop Compilation) Inspired By Michael Brown, Eric Garner, & Tamir Rice

The Arts & Music, national promotional platform for Performing & Creative Artists, have just released their last 'must hear' Digital Release of 2014. "We Can't Breathe: A Voice of the Voiceless," is a collective of powerful, passionate Spoken Word Poetry, fused with the elements of conscious Hip Hop Music.

What many are calling "Much

Two unpublished groups of Lincoln-related documents will appear at a Yonkers, N.Y. auction on Jan. 6, 2015.

A group of eight Illinois manuscripts, signed by Lincoln in 1842, begins just two years after receiving his law license.  Other signers include James Matheny, best man at Lincoln's wedding that year, best friend Joshua Speed, and Stephen A. Douglass, future opponent for the Presidency.

This Prairie-years case, in which Abe represented a defaulting Springfield Mayor, is the earliest and

Once again, the nation is compelled to mourn the death .of police officers. Rightly so, if such mourning changes the dynamics of the relationship between a para-militarized police and the communities in which they patrol. By no sense of the imagination should anyone be cavalier about the killing of a police officer, no more than they shou1d be when a police officer wrongly kills a civilian, especially an unarmed civilian. But that is the point. When the valorization of the life of a police off

The peaceful protestors of the killing of unarmed black males by police are magnificent. In addition to dealing with these horrible murders, they must face criticism from a variety of sources intent on silencing them.  From the biased media is understandable and expected. But, from friends in high places, especially in response to the recent  shooting of two policemen, must be alarming. The killing of these two policemen by a madman has become a pretext to silence protests.  The fact of the matt

NATIONWIDE BOYCOTT BEGINS

“SORRY LOTTO, NOT A DIME” is the campaign slogan for a national boycott by the Lottery Reinvestment Coalition.  The Coalition’s major objective is to have at least 50% of all state Lottery revenues generated from low- to moderate-income communities, reinvested back into these communities within a six-month time frame.  

The Coalition’s statement of purpose is to confront law-enforcement misconduct nationwide and abolish the “school to prison” pipeline afflicting the Black

Where young trees shaped like pyramids
are killed
then decorated
then dead trees planted in living rooms
like dead seeds planted in living wombs
soon go toxic
we wonder then why the children are born sick
we fall hard for their lies and tricks
longing for a piece of their rotten American pie
our elders moan
while the young die quick
tis their season

Young trees are hewn from their roots
grown to bear no fruits
harvested for yurugu’s pleasure
treasure for a day
then they meet the fire
tis their s

World Patent Marketing Makes A New Years Resolution To Focus On The Top Ten Countries Likely To See An Increase In Patent Filings

World Patent Marketing projects an increase in patent filings in developing markets and economies.

World Patent Marketing, the world’s fastest growing patent and inventor services organization, has recently released an infographic with their projections for the top ten countries most likely to file more patents over the next five years.

“We have found that GDP is one

The 4th edition of the New York Forum AFRICA, the only pan-African economic forum to be held inAfrica in 2015, will bring together more than 1500 business and political leaders onMay 29-31 2015 in Libreville, Gabon.

The theme for NYFA 2015, organized under the High Patronage of His Excellency Ali Bongo Ondimba, President of the Gabonese Republic, is Invest in the Energy Continent. It will focus on the new dynamism in the continent, its entrepreneurs, economic and investment opportunities, the gr

People tend to view reality through the lens of their personal experience or biases, even when completely irrelevant to a particular issue or incident. Yet, sometimes one's personal experience and knowledge - with investigation - can bring relevant insight or contemplation to a given situation. I raise this inspired by increasingly disturbing developments in the Bill Cosby rape scandal. Particularly since Black former model Beverly Johnson darkened (with her complexion) the bevy of still mostly