After Friday Prayers

After Friday Prayers
After salat
salaam-alaikum
al humdulilah
we shall meet in the streets
to shout no more pharaoh
no more presidents for life
no more American aide for guns and tear gas
no more uncle abdullah
no more
no more reactionary theology
no honor killings
suppression of women's dignity
no more
after Friday prayers
in Tunisia
Cairo
Yemen
Sudan
Jordan
Saudi Arabia
Persian Gulf
no more
after Fatihah/Ikhlas
we shall meet the guns of Pharaoh Mubarak
we shall meet the tear gas
even death even
we sh

Marvin X's TSU Lecture: The Hustler's Guide to the Game Called Life

            Before my grandmother was a grandmother she was an aunt.  She had older brothers but she was the eldest sister in her family of ten or eleven children.  If we’re speaking of titular longevity it would be more correct to call her Aint Bessie. Later on, moving northward and when her sisters had children, there would be variations of Aunt, Auntie, and Ant.  But the one which resonates most in my memory is hearing the children of my Aunt Teench (Ernestine had one child named Lawrence) an

Conference in New York on Sept 27, 2012

Subject:

The Congo DR Mapping Report

Released by the UN on October 1st, 2010, Balkanization, and Genocide

"The UN Mapping Report of Oct. 1^st, 2010, Balkanization, and Congo Genocide:  Paul Kagame's Rwanda’s Role and Intent to Balkanize the DRC; and How to End the 16 years of the atrocities and misery in the Congo DR."

The full title of the Mapping Report released by the UN on October 1, 2010 is:  “The Report of the Mapping Exercise documenting the most s

Trekking to Annapurna Ghorepani is an easy, short and popular trekking which is also known as Ghorepani (Poon Hill) trekking located in , Western part of Annapurna region in Nepal.It is inhabited of ethnic Magar people at Ghorepani village.In Magar indegenous group,there is one of the sub cast of Poon ,that's why it is named Ghorepani Poon Hill.

Annapurna View trekkingoffers the spectacular mountain scenery along with charming villager’s daily lifestyles, culture. You see Annapurna sunrise view f

US NAVY PARTNERSHIP WITH PHILADELPHIA-BASED EDUCATIONAL & COMMUNITY SERVICE ORGANIZATION GETS AN ENTHUSIASTIC WELCOME AND A MAJOR COMMITMENT

-- The Urban STEM Academy Center of Excellence To Improve Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education. --

-- Over 220 parents, students and influential civic, educational political, business and religious leaders turn out to hear Vice-Admiral Kevin McCoy, Commander, Naval Sea Systems Command highlight the expanded NAVSEA initiative with the Urban Y

Someone has to raise the issues that are hurting Black African American people. We lack leadership at every level of our society, including politics. I'm not interested in leadership that wants to fight or do battle. I want them to solve problems. I will not lower my standards to be a sideline cheerleader every two or four years, who need to be motivate to vote. I'm engaged and demand accountability, transparency and solutions at every level. However, a few of us, who are concerned about our peo

The Human Earthquake Hits University of Houston

                  LEFT OVER

GIVE ME CRUMBS AND BITS WHILE I PUT MYSELF HOOKED, IN-DEBT

FOR THE LAW TO ARISE, COME RESCUE ME, FULFILL ME –I RELY ON

 JUSTICE AND JOB, I’M DONE BRAVE ENOUGH, ACCUSTOM,  

 MY BETTER TIMES AHEAD IN PRESTINE OF LIGHT, THE SHOWER

 I ABSORVE – I GIVE CHANCE, CONTROLE MY MIND - MY PRIDE RISES

 ABOVE THE RHYMING OF THE FITTEST OF AGELESS BULL

FROM DARING POLITICIANS, THE DEPUTIES INTRUDANCE

AND DIALOGUEING BANKERS –SOLEMELY COVERINGS

IN ETNIQUES ARMORY, HIGHEST ESTATE ELEGANCY

 OF

I’m sitting here and wondering about my child.  Where is he?  Has he eaten?  Is he drunk?  Is he clean?  Does he have a decent bed?  All these thoughts and more are roaming through my mind and running rampant and long, sprinter and marathoner combined.  I can’t believe we, his step-father and I, his sister, his brother.  None of us can reach him because he desperately wants a name other than the one I gave him on the day of his birth.  He wants the cars, a beautiful woman, wealth, and most impor

[Read carefully and see and understand how this article justifies the reasons why descendants of Slaves are due REPARATIONS. 100 million Blacks stolen out of Africa, and this US Congress chooses to sweep our history and their guilt under the rug. And Black folk want to cast votes in this Hell. T.Y., Editor, The LawKeepers JOURNAL]

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Canadians behind U.S. bill to help Jews expelled from Arab countries

Steven Edwards, Ottawa Citizen, August 2, 2012

Research by former justice minister Irwin Cotler an

From The Ramparts

by Junious Ricardo Stanton                                                                          

 ~ Most of what you hear about Citizens United v. FEC is negative. By opening the door for corporations to spend unlimited sums in elections and to allow for the creation of super PACs, the Supreme Court has made a campaign finance system that was already flooded with money much worse." The Numbers Don't Lie If you aren

by La Vonda R. Staples

  ~ I can’t say that I’m against the death penalty.  I only know that I love my children so much that I feel that the person who should become so wrapped up in evil and carry out the act of ultimate theft, murder, should be called upon to surrender his ghost, after a trial, on a specific date, at a specific time.  May Allah the Merciful forgive me if I’m wrong. 

            What gives me pause is the number of times a man, generally a Black American man, has been selected to