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Thursday, April 14, 2011

America--Get Ready for Revolution

Michael Carter, National President of National Black Wall Street-USA announces 2nd Annual National Black Street "Measuring The Movement" National reporting Convention October 21-23 in Gary Indiana and a new National Chapter Organizing Office in Chicago. And the announcements of Clack Wall STreet Chicago Chair Ron Carter, Regional Chair; up and coming young leader Rickey Sease, new Gary Chapter Chair and Mark Allen, National Chief of Staff, National Spokesman and director of the new National Bla

But there’s another war being waged that will seldom receive worldwide news coverage commensurate with the above wars and never be given the funding that these other “perceived conflicts” obtain… Or for that matter a fraction of it…

That is… the war for the lives of A Generation of Black men living (and dying)

Delhi, Agra and Rajasthan are among top most famous destinations for tourism in northern India. Travelers from all over the world visit India to explore featured attractions of Delhi, Agra and Rajasthan. Have a look at what you will see and do on your visit to these three prominent tourism destinations in northern zone of country.

Delhi: Delhi, now known as New Delhi, is the capital city of India. It is an ancient and historical city with many magnificent historical monuments. But there are also

India is a vast and great country in South Asia. It has emerged as one of the most sought after tourism & holiday destinations in South Asia. It attracts travelers and vacationers from all over the world with its charm and fascination. There are numerous travel destinations in this diverse and beautiful country which are very popular among travelers and vacationers from all around the world. Have a look at some popular travel destinations of this country which are popular on tour package to Indi

Queen Phavia Kujichagulia, Esteemed Minister of Poetry, Music, Song, Dance and History, conferring with Prime Minister of Poetry Marvin X.  photo by Gene Hazzard, Oakland Post Newspaper

Drummer Val Serant, and Raynetta Razetta, chief choreographer of Marvin X. photo by Kamau Amen Ra, at celebration of Amiri Baraka 75th birthday, Fillmore Jazz Heritage Center, San Francisco.  

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