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John Anthony:

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." MLK.

QUESTION : WHY DID MARTIN LUTHER KING STRESS FOCUS ON CONTENT OF CHARACTER INSTEAD OF ON SKIN COLOR??


Here is the answer: in this society the color black is synonymous with numerous negative stereotypes which strangely African Americans themselves believe in:
1. Black monday
2. Black cat
3. Black cloud
4. As bl

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Europe

I have spent a total of nine months in Nigeria since my relocation experiment started and everyday I wake up to see what those ruling us have done and are still doing to Nigeria, I become despondent, desperate and disillusioned. I sometimes want to give up and when I reflect, despite my long-held belief that Nigeria will change for the better, in the face of all the evidence I see and hear and feel and experience everyday, I privately think, “No, Nigeria will not change, at least not in my lifet

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US activists critique government performance at UN human rights review
November 5, 2010, Geneva – US activists in Geneva observing the government’s first-ever review by the UN’s top human rights body said the government failed to convince the world of its positive human rights record.
“If the US government delegation’s objective was to reclaim the mantel of global human rights leadership, it failed miserably in that effort,” said Ajamu Baraka, Executive Director of the US Human Rights Networ
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Friday, November 5, 2010

Preview # 20, Shaggy Flores


Preview #20, Poetry Issue, Journal of Pan African Studies

Guest Editor, Marvin X




Shaggy Flores, New York City



Letter for Bobo

Sent a letter

To the governor of Mississippi today

Asked him

If he remembers

That the ghost of Chicago Bobo

Still swims

in the shallows

Of the Tallahatchie River

Not far

From the town of Money

Where the only Green

That exists

Is the Evil

That Men Do

On Delta Summer

Back Roads

Sent a letter

To the governor of Mississippi today

Marked it urgent

S

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Chicago-Midwest
For Immediate Release
Contact Renee Ferguson 312-848-4432

SENATOR CAROL MOSELEY BRAUN COMMENTS ON
RAHM EMANUEL
HOLLYWOOD FUNDRAISING TRIP

“On this day when President Obama and Illinois Democrats are still
recovering from the painful political debacle that he was the architect of, Rahm
Emanuel
is off in Hollywood hanging out with bankers and billionaires. But maybe
Hollywood is where he belongs because the story of how he *helped* the Obama
administration when he was chief of staff is indeed fiction. Rah
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Oakland Braces for Sentencing of Killer Cop

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Oakland Braces for Sentencing of Killer Cop














Oakland Braces
for Sentencing of Oscar Grant, Jr. Killer Cop

Again, the City of Oakland circulated a letter to downtown businesses to usetheir best judgment whether they should leave early on Friday inanticipation of a light sentence for theBART police officer who shotOscar Grant in the back while under arrest on last New Year's.

Men'sWarehouse is boarded up. Shall there be another Day of Absence withwhite workers fleeing the ar
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We do live in interesting times

Rodney D. Coates:

As the political dust begins to settle, there are many who are
already passing the blame and taking credit for what appears to be a major
shift in American politics. The Republicans in a sweeping set of victories
have reclaimed the House of Representatives, while the Democrats only
narrowly held on to the Senate. Already pundits are sifting through the
debris, sorting through the tea leaves, and superficially deconstructing this
most recent of elections. The problem, as with mo
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The Republican’s Historic Night

November 4, 2010Raynard JacksonWith all the pundits giving their views on Tuesday night’s election results, I found very little insightful analysis of what really happened. So, if you want the traditional election analysis, then go on the internet and read all the conventional analysis. I want to deal with the election results from a different slant.Tuesday’s elections proved to be historic for the Republican Party. Two Blacks were elected to the House of Representatives, two Hispanics were elec
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Chicago-Midwest

SO,BLACKMAN WHAT'S THE PLAN?

Now that we have had our fanny perpendiculars handed to us, what’s the plan blackman? Do we have a counter strategic strike?

When Obama initially won The White House, white America immediately prepared a counter strategy and today they have kicked our collective fanny perpendiculars but however bloodied, beaten and defeated we are or feel we still have a black president and his entire family trapped behind political enemy lines and let’s leave no man behind. So, what’s the plan blackman?

Prior to

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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Preview #19, Journal of Pan African Studies




Preview #19, Poetry Issue, Journal of Pan African Studies

Guest Editor, Marvin X


Tony Medina, Washington DC

Slam-A-Lot

Shit Slam Squat & Pee Slam Bacon & Eggs Slam Ham on Rye Slam Shit onShinola Slam Spit & Drool Slam Vomit Slam Back Alley Wino Piss SlamMaggots Crawling Out An Open Skull Slam Backstabbing Slam Eviction SlamAss on Pavement Slam Prescription Slam Hungry Man Slam Starvation SlamBombs Bursting in Air Slam Dead Roach in

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"WHO KILLED EMMETT TILL?"Coming to a city near you soon! Scheduling now....from Nov 2010 to March 2011!
THE EMMETT TILL LEGACY FOUNDATION along with Award winning Journalist Ray Metoyer now ready to present the Film "WHO KILLED EMMETT TILL?" at your next
gathering.
The Film "Who Killed Emmett Till?" (45 min) directed by the award winning journalist and TV anchor Ray Metoyer (produced by the former Black Family channel) is a powerful educational
piece that the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation
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Chicago-Midwest

PNC Bank Sponsorship Allows "Every Day Women" To Attend
"Take Back Your Life" Event

PNC Bank Sponsorship Allows "Every Day Women" To Attend
"Take Back Your Life" Event

PNC Bank provided the Monroe Foundation with tickets to distribute to low-income"everyday" women to attend WVON's "Take Back Your Life" event, held onSaturday, October 30th in Tinley Park.

What makes this important is that the event, priced at $ 60 per person, andwas focused on issues of empowerment for women, are being held often toen
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The Art of Deception in the Middle East

Sunday, October 31, 2010

The Art of Deception in the Middle East











The Art of Deception in the Middle East


The Middle East is the prime area on the planet for the play out of deception in the political arena.

Ofcourse, it is original home of the the Assassins, those Medievalhashish smoking Muslims who killed Christians during the Crusades. Andsince we are in the midst of the neo-Crusades, including the Jewishoccupation of Palestine, the US occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan andPakistan, we should look f
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Friday, October 29, 2010

The Politics of War and Tricknology














The Politics of War

and Tricknology


Isn'tit absolutely amazing we are in three wars: Iraq, Afghanistan andPakistan, yet the elected politicians, the media magicians, the left,are in total silence about the wars, blood and bones on both sides, thebillions missing from reconstruction funds in Iraq and Afghanistan.Surely such terror and looting should be the subject of politicaldiscussion. But the Americans are such deaf, dumb and blind dupes
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NYMetro

Finding a suitable renter to put property on rent is big issue. It is very difficult to find good renter on whom you can trust and put your property on rent. But with the assistance of property managers you can easily find a renter and rent your properties. People who are engaged in managing properties remain regularly in contact with the tenants. They have ideas regarding their background and financial status. They will accordingly put your properties on rent to the suitable person.

They deal w

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Keeping Our Eyes on the Ball (2)

by Kwesi Kwaa Prah

Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS)

Cape Town

Dear Gen. Williams*,

The flurry of emails, I have so far seen, have maintained the pace and heat of the discussions that were initiated and aired during our Johannesburg meeting of early January this year. This is enormously encouraging, because the free exchange of views is crucial to the identification and elaboration of a platform for ideas which could eventually feed into the 8th Congress. As originators

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Black Theatre at Eastside Arts Alliance

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Black Plays at Eastside Arts





playwrights
Marvin X
Opal Palmer Adisa

Ayodele
Nzingha,
producer,
director,
actress



















Two Black Plays at Eastside Arts Alliance


We are happy to announce two black plays will be performed at EastsideArts Alliance: Opal Palmer Adisa's Bathroom Graffiti Queen and MarvinX's classic Flowers for the Trashman. The plays are produced anddirected by Ayodele Nzingha, founder of the Lower Bottom Playaz of WestOakland. Ayodele portrays the Queen in this one-woman p
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Culture, Constitution, and Religious Conformity

By Ezrah Aharone


The Juan Williams incident and the rhetoric of Bill O'Reilly that caused Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar to walkoff the set of The View, fan the flames of an unbroken theme in history where no other "belief" has arguably been as unifying yet divisive, peaceful yet violent as religion.

Although the proposed Mosque at Ground Zero is widening the gap of intolerance between some Christians and Muslims, the tragedy of 9-11 (which involved extremist Muslims) is no more a window into Is

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The Man in the Mirror

October 28, 2010

Raynard Jackson

Earlier this week I received a phone call from a good friend and he relayed the following story from a liberal, Democratic friend of his in California.

She is a retired worker with a college degree and worked for many years in the court system. She wanted to get back in the work force on a part-time basis and had several interviews. She had all the necessary skills except one---she didn’t speak Spanish! Therefore, she didn’t get any of the jobs she sought.

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