Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Bay Area Black Authors March for Chauncey Bailey

February 17, 2011 

Raynard Jackson 

Last year I wrote a column about how President Obama totally disrespected Black America (during Black History Month of all times) and there was no outcry from within our community.  You can read that column at: 

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/note.php?note_id=310879525974

Now, you have the same thing happening again, of course during Black History Month.  This time the offender is the illustrious Washington Post (WP) newspaper.  They are supposed to be

By Rodney D. Coates*

Currently, progressive listservs, facebooks, blogs, and twitters are all a twitter (sorry I could not help my self J) with the buzz coming out of first Tunisia and now Egypt.  It seems that the winds of change are being whipped by a revolutionary rejection of capitalism.  We are informed by these ideologues that these activities are not only predictable, but the normal outpouring of a mass public that has gotten tired of the excesses of capital.  Such ideological posturing a

What do Pres. Herbert Hoover, Pres. Regan, Pres. Bush II and

Pres. Barack Obama have in common?

The reason I am asking the above question, is if you was born during the Hoover’s crash of 29’ or you lived through Reganomics, or Bush II Crash of 2008. Then you can have a sense of the PAIN that is about to be dropped on Black and Brown as well as poor folks in America in the coming years and months.

          Now just like the Crash of 29’ or Reaganomics or the 2008’ Crash of Bush II some people is go

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Men Who Read Books in Prison

With 70% home foreclosures in the African American Community, why is 3^rd Ward Ald. Pat Dowell The only One speaking out about the 2,500 Home Foreclosure on with 17 other Aldermen RUNNING!

WOW! As I drive around the 18 African American Alderman Wards I saw hundreds of homes boarded–up properties, but I never really paid attention to it until I listen to 3^rd Ward Alderman Pat Dowell raise the issue a few days ago. Now I don’t know if she is raising this issue because she feels the foot steps of Yo

Congressman Rush says Rahm Emanuel TV Ads Insult Black Community During Black History Month

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Marksallen

One of the first community organizers to work with Barack Obama in Chicago for over 20 years. Now Associate Editor of The South Street Journal Newspaper and 37 year activist/journalist, recently selected as 2010 Who's Who In Black Chicago. 312-624-8351 or 773-392-0165

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Saturday, February 12, 2011

Major Media Not Reporting The Mobilization For Carol Moseley Braun !!

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Marksallen

One of the first community organizers to work with Barack Obama in Chicago for over 20 years. Now Associate Editor of The South Street Journal Newspaper and 37 year activist/journalist, recently selected as 2010 Who's Who In Black Chicago. 312-624-8351 or 773-392-0165

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By Doctor Sapphire:

Americans can seek forgiveness from the Egyptians whom our taxes suppressed for 30 years by visiting there in mass over the coming years to tour and help the economy recover.

As people to people who work for our living versus those who just profit off the sweat of the masses, we should try to help the Egyptian revolution by planning tours and vacations there over the next 5 years. This will help recover some of their financially loses.

Also, we do not want to see them wit

for Ngugi Wa Thiong'o and the Pan African Revolution


The king wanted parrots around him. He wants his ministers to wear parrot masks. He said he had to do the same for the previous king. He only said what the king wanted to hear, nothing more, so he advised his ministers to do the same. In fact, they must encourage the people to bec

Lumbini has the greatest significance in Buddhism for it being the birth place of Lord Buddha. Located in the foothills of Himalayas in Nepal, this world-renowned Buddhist pilgrimage site is quite close to the Indian border. Lumbini is among the four main Buddha holy sites, the other three being Bodhgaya, Sarnath and Kushinagar. Tourists usually plan a combined tour to Lumbini and Bodhgaya, the respective places of Buddha’s birth and Buddha enlightenment.

There are a number of places in and aroun

"I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think."
-Richard Pryor

The Midwest is flat. And it's hard to think in a flat place, where life is two dimensional, where people have width and length and no depth, where when you fly in from the 3-D world you tend to feel a moment of panic above the runway gazing out of the cabin porthole at surrounding fields, roads, and distant horizon beneat

Thursday, February 10, 2011

The Reactionaries Will Never Put Down Their Butcher Knives