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On the strength of about 500 enthusiastic college students, national justice advocates, and local organizers, Jamie and Gladys Scott stood strong on the steps of the Mississippi State Capitol and requested that governor haley barbour finish what he started. On January 7, 2011, The Scott Sisters were released from the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility by the governor to save the state the embarrassment of their continued incarceration with poten

The rhaw pan african ministers

       Forty Day Fast for Freedom

        (uhuru Sikelele)

     All people of African descent to join us

                            April 15 – May 25, 2011

On April 15, 1958, in Ghana, African leaders and political activists gathered at the first Conference of Independent States. The conference was significant in that it represented the first Pan African Conference held on African soil after the 5th Pan African Congress in 1945. The Conference called for the fou

Yesterday, across the U.S. headlines screamed that the “Duke Lacrosse Accuser”, “woman who falsely accused Duke Lacrosse Team” in the Huffington Post, The Washington Post, ABC News  even the Boston Globe, the story actually made headlines in the UK –has been yet again arrested.   It seems that that Crystal Mangum has been reduced to “that woman” “accuser” of the Duke Lacrosse Team.  But who is ‘that woman” and why has she achieved such notoriety.  Clearly, one who can displac

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

A Funny thing happened on the way to the Chauncey Bailey Murder Trial

 

 

Like Hamlet, I hesitated for weeks trying to decide whether I should attend the murder trial of Oakland Post Editor Chauncey Bailey, my friend and colleague who was assassinated by other friends of mine.

What a conundrum! Immediately after the incident happened that dreadful morning of August 2, 2007, on the streets of downtown Oakland, I wrote an article entitled The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, for I kn

By Kali Akuno ~

For a generation that has witnessed few genuine people's movements succeed in transforming the nation-states where they reside and engage in bottom up processes of social revolution, the popular uprisings in Africa (Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco and Libya) and southwest Asia (Yemen, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Syria) have been very instructive. In the main what these movements reiterate is that "repression does indeed build resistance", although it may take a decades fo

A little black girl goes to school and her teacher goes on facebook and makes fun of her hairstyle. The little black girl’s mother becomes outraged and threatens to sue the school system.  

African Americans become emotional and sensitive because they put the word Negro on the census count or because some white person says, "those folks".

Peraica, who is white and represents the western suburbs, was talking about how cutting the county's share of the sales tax could help the unemployed -- mention

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Pimpin and Spirituality

by Marvin X, Prime Minister of Poetry

I am not a pimp. I am a hustler, sometimes a trick. A hustler waits for no one to bring his money, he gets his own. It is beneath his dignity to wait or depend on a woman or anyone to get his hustle going. All he needs is product, almost anything will do, even a roll of toilet paper he can hustle. But the pimp's thing is women, he considers himself their manager and they consider him the same, usually by mutual

I start from the basic premise that freedom is not an absolute. That is to say, one is not absolutely free, that there are obvious limits to our freedom seem unassailable.  Simply put, our freedoms are limited to the extent that they impinge upon the freedom on another.  Having said that, exactly what are these limits and what is the nature of these limits.  My mother would remind me often that “The fact that I can do something does not mean that I should do that thing.”  The d

India is a rich nation that attracts tourists from all over the world. The tourist are left mesmerized with what India holds for them .The beautiful Himalayan ranges, the Ganges, the plains, that desert, beaches, flora and fauna and many more. India tours are a one spot destination for all types of vacations. Whether is for honeymooners, families, religious peoples, adventure lovers, etc, India has a large number of destinations to offer to all.

Discovering the whole India is simply impossible i

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Shakespeare and Chauncey Bailey

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Chauncey Bailey: A Shakespearan Tragedy

 

On one level, the Chauncey Bailey assassination can be best understood by recalling the drama of classic Shakespeare, Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear. Many of his plays dealt with succession rights/rites, often involving themes of jealousy, envy, greed and power. Of course these are general themes of humanity, but the man known as Shakespeare wrote about these matters better than others before an

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

The Chauncey Bailey Murder Trial is a Sham!

The Chauncey Bailey Murder Trial is A Sham  "Chauncey was our soul, blood and bones. And we take authority on the matter of facts concerning his assassination. We are taking authority on his legacy to our community and the world.We do not accept the OPD's, the DA's, nor the CBP's explanation of his cold blooded murder." --Paul Cobb, Oakland Post Publisher

 

Bay Area Black Authors reject claim the Bakery Brothers are the sole

DEAR BLACK AMERICA 2011

Once again black people are first to discover and last to benefit. In 2006 a black man wrote a book called Undercover Smart. In that book he told us that the Spanish players were on the move and that by the year 2015 the Spanish players will absorb, deplete and eliminate the African Americans from the game.

The year is now 2011 (5 years later)

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/government_programs/jan-june11/census_03-24.html

The last faction of the Spanish players (The Latinos

UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE COLONIAL WIG

http://rastafarivisions.com/wigs.html

FIGHTING POLITICAL WARS FOR THE OVERSEER POSITION ON MASSA PLANTATION

(The maniacal quest to be THE MAN IN CHARGE of the slave master’s front office on the plantation, driven by the obsession to be the party in power under Massa’s directions)

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 “What is the best way to end the constant slave rebellions?” the slave owners asked “His Holiness” their spiritual advisor, and the answer was:  “Educate them on

Why Do So-called Progressives Support Dictators?

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Why Do So-called Progressives Support Dictators?

It is amazing to know the long time support many progressives have given to rotten, slimy dictators around the world. Of course there is often a time lag in catching up with the one time revolutionaries who eventually discard their revolutionary garb to don the persona of the brutal dictator, president for life.

The former revolutionary did indeed liberate his people but then so

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Crusader Hypocrisy

Crusader Hypocrisy in North Africa and the Middle East

The Crusaders have entered the freedom quagmire in North Africa and the Middle East. Oh, what a conundrum the Crusaders shall find themselves attempting to unravel. They have been caught off balance by the speed of events that their political and military strategists never imagined.

A single spark began in Tunisia and has now ignited a prairie fire from North Africa to the Persian Gulf. The Amer

Namibia’s relations with South Sudan go back to the period of armed
struggle. We do not have the all the information, but we do know that
the Late Dr John Garang and Namibia’s Founding Father Sam Nujoma, were
friends, probably due to their shared experience of liberation
struggle. We also know that Namibia’s SWAPO government sent weapons to
the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) and that one consignment was
seized on landing in Mombasa by the Kenyan Government of Arap Moi. The
next consignment reach