ECLECTICALLY BLACK NEWS FOR ECLECTIC BLACK PEOPLE

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By Gloria Dulan-Wilson ~

 In a recent article on Yahoo's newspage, Bloomberg apparently is underwriting some sort of study to persuade developers come up with homes less than 425 square feet in size, actually going down to as small as 325 square feet. 

How stupid can you get!! If they do develop tiny apartments, make sure that Mayor Mike Bloomberg and those assinine planners have to live in them too. With all the wareho

By Raynard Jackson

NNPA Columnist

July 12, 2012

As anyone who has followed me knows, I have been extremely critical of President Obama’s non-engagement with the Black community. Obama has deliberately ignored the plight of the Black community while giving preferential treatment to the homosexual and Hispanic communities.

But I can’t in good conscious criticize Obama and then give the Republicans a pass when they display similar behavior towards the Black community.  I can’t excoriate Black Democr

A major progressive initiative is underway in Jackson, Mississippi. This initiative demonstrates tremendous promise and potential in making a major contribution towards improving the overall quality of life of the people of Jackson, Mississippi, particularly people of African descent. This initiative is the Jackson Plan and it is being spearheaded by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) and the Jackson People's Assembly.

The Jackson Plan is an initiative to apply many of the best practices

Telling someone to forgive and forget, when you aren’t present for their nightly parade of memories of the past, is sometimes another blow on the back of a wounded soul.  I don’t know how, but I have learned to forgive and I hope I learn this mythical thing called forgetting.  The human mind is designed to have survival tactics imprinted within higher and lower brain functions.  You learn how to walk, in part, because you look up from your crib and see everyone walking.  The images are frozen in

Our assignment will move us from one battle to another.  Adversity is inevitable our enemy observes all progress. God will mentor us in warfare. The scriptures says “He trains my hands for battle; he strengthens my arm to draw a bronze bow.” Psalm 18; 34 “Praise the Lord, who is my rock. He trains my hands for war and gives my fingers skill for battle.” Psalm 144:1.

A warrior only uses the weapons that never failed him. David rejects the weapons of other while fighting Goliath.

A warrior refuses t

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Africa?  Where did I meet her?  I first heard of her from a real live African when I was in the fourth grade.  Our teacher, Mr. Driskill, thought it would be a learning experience for an African to come and talk to his class.  I attended Toussaint L’Ouverture Elementary and I have to confess that there wasn’t a single painting or representation, or even a story told about Haiti or the Revolution which would create the first independent country of Black people in the western

Nubia Through The Ages

The earliest of the Nubian cultures (the A- group C- group) were located In northern Nubia until recently it was thought that A -group people were Semi nomadic herdsmen however new research suggests that a line of kings 1ived in Qustul in northern Nubia as early as or perhaps even earlier than The first pharaohs of Egypt the people of these early cultures buried their Dead in stone lined pit graves accompanied by pottery land cosmetic articles. At this time, Nubia was known

• Destruction in Mali
• The Wisdom of Plato Negro
• Revolution from Egypt to the Americas: My people are rising by Mohja Kahf

July 4, 2012                   

Raynard Jackson

As we celebrate Independence Day here in the US, I wonder when the Black community is going to learn the true meaning of this day when it comes to politics.

Independence Day, or Fourth of July, is about freedom to think, be, imagine and to live.  In the U.S., July 4, 1776 was the day we celebrate our freedom from Great Britain.  Even though the adoption of the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 2, 1776, it is celebrated on the 4^th.

Our desi

Here's a interesting collection of Information that was just given to me, thought I'd share it.

REMEMBER AFRICA?

After Africans liberated themselves for Europe, the America's (north, south and central America's) and the Middle East (wanting to rule themselves). They were cut off from aid - trade, food and technology. While the aid that was giving was handed over to puppet leaders rather then the people. With interest on the aid leaving Africa in crushing debt. The poverty fueled gangs in which non

Hog Made From Cat, Rat & Dog 
By Messenger Elijah Muhammad 
Excerpts taken from How To Eat To Live, Book 2 

"Who wants to eat the combination of these fleshes: cat, rat and dog? This is what the hog is made of -- the dog, cat and rat, and the Bible teaches you that he is from a mouse. Read Isaiah 66:17, 'They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the Lord

Crack" or "Christ"!by Bro Akil
From Niggas to Gods Vol. II
Escaping "Niggativity"

"Crack" and "Christ"! "Crack" or "Christ" ...two of the biggest hallucinogenic-drugs sold in the Black Community! "Crack" and "Christ".

There are only two people getting rich in these ghettos of AmeriKKKa...one "Slangin-Crack", and the other "Slangin-Christ"! One selling "Dope", and the other selling "Hope"! "Crack" and "Christ".

You got the "crack-house" on one corner with a house full of lost and desperate souls, and

A Story without Heroes:
The Cautionary Tale of Malt Liquor
April 30, 2005

The family of American-born beers speaks proudly about two of its children. Ask about Steam Beer or the less gifted but very popular Light Beer, and the photos come out, the stories begin. But speak aloud the name of the other sibling, and the room grows quiet. Dad won't look up from his plate and Mom goes into the kitchen and cries into her apron. How could you mention Malt Liquor?


A Humble Birth, A Proper Upbringing

Born in t

It Hurts Just to Think: Notes from a Native Tongue

excerpts from a student paper
by Jerold White







The discussion went well about Malcolm X today. The whole class participated, but I have never heard so much bullshit in my life. Someone had the nerve to compare Malcolm X to the Ku Klux Klan. I think it is better that I did not comment. If I did, I would have said some terrible things. I just cannot understand how some people can feel that Malcolm X was wrong to hate white people. "Two wrongs don't ma

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