By Rodney D. Coates*
Balancing on the precipice of Ockham’s Razor, the world debates on whether or not it should intervene in the Libyan crises. As we debate, a tyrant continues to bombard his citizens, but the question is can or should we –particularly in America – be doing something. Similar debilitating discussions in America’s past to include Rwanda, Sudan, or Bosnia –resulted in embarrassed silence, isolation, and ultimately inaction. Now, faced with the potential for massive civilian de
Marvin X returned to his Alma Mater, San Francisco State University, for a Black History Month talk in Davey D's class on Hip Hop. Davey D asked the poet about ideological differences between the Black Arts Movement and the political liberation movement, especially between BAM at the Black Panther Party. The poet said much of the dispute centered around arm struggle, with
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 direct at 773-392-0165
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RAS TAFARI: THE MAJESTY & THE MOVEMENT EXHIBIT in ETHIOPIA 2015
RAS TAFARI: THE MAJESTY AND THE MOVEMENT is an exhibition devoted to the celebration, preservation, interpretation and overstanding of the contributions and experiences of His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie I, and the Pan African Movement known by The Majesty’s early name, Ras Tafari. The main exhibition will be housed at The Ethiopian National Museum in Addis Ababa in 2015 with satellite exhibits in Shasha
If you haven’t considered an all inclusive holiday, yet alone tried one, then this type of holiday is most definitely worth serious consideration when looking at your annual Summer holiday.
To start with, the major benefits of an all inclusive holiday is the price. Prices on these holidays are hugely competitive when compared against the traditional travel packages holidays, whether they are self-catering or full board. In many instances the cost for a week’s all inclusive holiday can be little m
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In all of Chicago media, mostly all major political reporting concluding with The ABC7 Chicago final major TV debate of The Chicago Mayoral election, there have been a consistent pattern of avoiding of questioning and sharing of facts that have avoided the kind of symbolism that could stimulate a historic voter turnout during this month of February, Black History Month. The only exception of this I have found are WGN-TV and The Chicago Defender that have specifically made focus on the fact of Bl
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Solidarity statement presented by Obasi Camera, Outreach Coordinator of the Ujima People's Progress Party organizing committee, to the founding convention of the New York Freedom Party on February 12, 2010 in Brooklyn, New York. The New York Freedom Party is the first independent African-led electoral party to be formed in the State of New York.
Brothers, Sisters and Comrades in the Struggle for Social Justice and Human
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:
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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
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For the first time in more than five decades, there won't be a Daley on the ballot for mayor of Chicago.
That alone would make the Feb. 22 election historic, but it also happens to fall on the same day that Harold Washington was elected to his first term in 1983. There is also the promise that this election will produce a city council that actually serves its constituents, instead of doing the bidding of Mayor Richard M
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
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