Mark Allen Co Hosts VIP Reception & Business Briefing Wednesday June 16th with National President/CEO of Rain Nutrition Company

Posted by Mark S. Allen on June 16, 2010 at 1:03pm

Mark Allen Co Hosts VIP Reception & Business Briefing Wednesday June 16th with National President/CEO of Rain Nutrition Company

MARK ALLEN TALKS - ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT. "As a Board member of The Black Wall Street-Chicago Project, I am pleased to help host these national company executives from Rain International, and expose grassroots entrepreneurs to the company's Chicago faith based cause initiative, and most importantly, local investment and small business, local job creation, ownership opport

Parable of the Solution

Posted by Marvin X on June 15, 2010 at 12:48am

Monday, June 14, 2010

Parable of the Solution

DuBois said how does it feel to be a problem, but Plato Negro says how does it feel to be the solution? And yet one is totally ignored, silenced, muffled like a wild dog. But within his bowels, the North American African possesses the answer to the conundrum that perplexes the most astute and erudite, especially among the state intellectuals in perpetual crisis and Pharaoh's magicians, the religious scientists and others steeped in religiosity.

The so

Parable of Da Corner

Posted by Marvin X on June 14, 2010 at 3:32pm

Parableof Da Corner

Parable of DaCorner

WAKE UP EVERYBODY - HAROLD MELVIN & THE BLUENOTES (1975)

Plato Negro asks conscious teachers to follow his example by going to the street cornersof their communities and sharing with youth and adults, bydisseminating knowledge and practical wisdom, counseling those in needof healing from trauma and unresolved grief--to be more a listener than ateacher, for only by listening can we

Chicago-Midwest

Governor Quinn's Death Sentence To Black Youth and Program That Was Saving Their Lives

Posted by Mark S. Allen on June 12, 2010 at 9:26pm

MARK ALLEN TALKS -- The life and death decisions that Governor Quinn The State of Illinois makes when the same week that they announce the State budget will provide $6 million dollars in funds to breathe life into new downtown communication buildings, while at the same time cutting the desperately needed funds for Father Michael Pfleger at St. Sabina and his SafetyNet crime intervention and prevention programs this summer to help save the lives of Black youth who are dying at alarming rates.!!

Mo

Parable of Lord Have Mercy

Posted by Marvin X on June 12, 2010 at 1:19pm

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Parable ofLord Have Mercy

A beggar came to Plato Negro askingfor change to get something to eat. Plato Negro knew the man to betalented so he denied the request, even though he had at least a hundreddollars in his pocket, including change, which was all the man wanted.

Whenthe beggar heard Plato Negro say no, he cried, "Lord have mercy!" andwalked away. The words Lord Have Mercy rang like a bell in Plato's ears,suddenly he was full of fear that God was speaking to him throug

South

The Past Between Them

Posted by Author Stephanie Morris on June 12, 2010 at 12:49pm

TITLE: The Past Between Them

AUTHOR: Stephanie Morris

AUTHOR URL: http://www.stephaniemorris.webs.com

GENRE/THEME: Contemporary African American Romance

PUBLISHER: Sugar and Spice Press

URL TO THE BUYING PAGE:

http://www.sugarnspicepress.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=11&products_id=77

EXCERPT RATING: PG-13

BLURB:

Tovah Warren is devastated when she loses her father. Things get worse when she loses her job. Just when it seemsthat the world is already crashing down around her, the attorney of

Chicago-Midwest

Black Actvists Say Democrats and Republicans Have No Real Grassroots Black and Poor Peoples Agenda

Posted by Mark S. Allen on June 12, 2010 at 10:12am

Black Actvists Say Democrats and Republicans Have No Real Grassroots Black and Poor Peoples Agenda

MARK ALLEN TALKS ---- One thing that is clear that you do not hear in the latest media battles between Governor Quinn and Senator Bill Brady or Mark Kirk and Alexi Giannoulius is WHO best has a grassroots Black or poor people's agenda and they are on the ballot with 5,000 signatures. And the indpendent campaigns of William "Dock" Walls and Scott Lee Cohen who ARE actively engaging the grassroots Bla

Parable of Broken Systems, Broken Minds

Posted by Marvin X on June 11, 2010 at 4:51am

ParableofBroken Systems, Broken Minds

The oilcontaminating theGulf is but the most recent example of man's mind failing him as aresult of greed. Anyone who believes the white man knows what he isdoing in the world is a triple damn fool. This man is a danger tohimself and others. He should be confined to an institution for longterm recovery from the addiction to white supremacy.

Whatwe perceive as reality is most often a reflection of imagination, ofmythology and ritual, or simply the mind of man

A Poem for Dessie X. Woods/Rashidah Muhammad

Posted by Marvin X on June 11, 2010 at 4:23am

APoem for Dessie Woods/Rashidah Muhammad

The following poem by Kalamu ya Salaam honors Dessie X. Woods/Rashidah Muhammad(RIP), a warrior queen who killed her rapist in Georgia before moving toOakland where she worked with the Uhuru Movement, Marvin X, and became amidwife and community organizer in West Oakland before making hertransition due to cancer at 61.

There is a street named Rashidah Muhammad Way, downtown Oakland, but we doubt those whonamed the street in her honor were aware of her valian

DMV

Misreading the Tea (Party) Leaves

Posted by Raynard Jackson on June 10, 2010 at 12:40am

June 10, 2010

Raynard Jackson

I was stunned by Tuesday night’s election comments from all the talking heads. In listening to many political pundits (both Democrats and Republicans), you would have thought Sarah Palin had just become God!

How can anyone with the least bit of a brain credit Palin with many of the Republican victories last night, especially among the female victors?

Only once in recent history can one credibly argue that an endorsement by an individual had any measureable effect on an

Parable of Jazz

Posted by Marvin X on June 9, 2010 at 5:42pm

Parable of Jazz

Jazz saved me
this night
jazz
saved me
I was ready to go
jazz
held my arm
reached into my soul
saved me.
--mx

He was so happy to be born a North American African. A little sad hewasn't born in New Orleans, but happy just the same to claim hisheritage of black classical music, the most wonderful music in theworld. What other music could come from a people enslaved except jazz orblack classical music? Well, now, don't leave out Vudun music, another musicfrom the African democratic society

Chicago-Midwest

Mark Allen says that Ronald Holt received a "symbolic" appointment as new CAPS head and must overcome how Daley & Weis' decisions set him up for failure

Posted by Mark S. Allen on June 9, 2010 at 12:21pm

Mark Allen says that Ronald Holt received a "symbolic" appointment as new CAPS head and must overcome how Daley & Weis' decisions set him up for failure

MARK ALLEN TALKS -- Ronald Holt Must Overcome Chicago Mayor Daley's "Symbolic" Appointment as new Director of Chicago's community policing program

I called Ronald Holt and congratulated him on accepting the appointment by Chicago Mayor Richard Daley as the new Director of the C.A.P.S. (Community Alternative Policing Strategies) program, and how he

Parable of Helen Thomas

Posted by Marvin X on June 7, 2010 at 2:25pm

Monday, June 7, 2010

Parableof Helen Thomas

Parable of
HelenThomas

The comments of Helen Thomas were sound, sane and intelligent. After two hundred years the ChristianCrusaders were forced to depart the Holy Land by Saladin, so we expectthe Jews who are not Jews will do the same.

If ET occupiedPalestine we would tell him to go home. If monkeys and apes occupiedPalestine, we would tell them to go back to the jungle. So I am inagreement with Helen Thomas, it makes no sense to me that Arabs shouldbe opp

Diaspora Leaders to Hold Press Conference on Citizenship & Mission to Africa

Posted by SendMeYourNews on June 7, 2010 at 11:42am

World African Diaspora Union (WADU) ;

“We need citizenship to rebuild our Ancestral Homeland” emphasized Baba John Watusi Branch, Chief Secretariat of the World African Diaspora Union (WADU) while returning from Senegal, just one of his 100 plus business
missions to Africa over the last four decades.
“Dual-citizenship is the utmost concern and aspiration of the African Diaspora
now residing in Africa contributing their skills and investments to empower
Africa.” Baba Watusi Branch will be part o

Parable of Parental Partiality

Posted by Marvin X on June 6, 2010 at 2:06am

Surviving children Amira, Muhammida and Nefertiti, also grandson JahAmiel (Amira's son, other grandchildren include Kevin, James, Jazmin,Jordan and Mahadevi).
Deceased Darrel/Abdul (RIP). Marvin K, oldest son.

Parable of Parental Partiality

A woman asked Plato Negro which of his children expressed hispersonality. Immediately, he replied, all of them. The woman persisted,no, which one really expresses you. Again, Plato Negro replied all ofthem. the woman was not satisfied, she again asked which of

Parable of the Wannabe Actor, Part II

Posted by Marvin X on June 3, 2010 at 10:00pm

Parable of the Wannabe Actor, Part Two
A great actor once said, and it may have been Sir Lawrence Oliver, "The best part of theatre is getting drunk after the show." I agree totally with him. I would never get drunk before the show or during the show (some actors are known and have been sound recorded entering the dressing room after a scene to take a nip).

I want full concentration before going on stage. Now this may be most difficult if the actor is also director and/or producer, as he must dea

DMV

Amnesty is a “Terror-ble” Idea

Posted by Raynard Jackson on June 3, 2010 at 12:05am

June 3, 2010

Raynard Jackson

Am I the only who is sick and tired of illegals telling me what their rights are in this country? Am I the only one who is sick and tired of pro-amnesty groups trotting out all the sob stories from illegals—“their mother brought them here when they were little kids, etc?” It’s not about rights; it’s about what is right!

Is it right for illegals to get free healthcare when citizens do not? Is it right for illegals to get in-state tuition for university when citizens do n

Parable of Women Without Men

Posted by Marvin X on June 2, 2010 at 4:07am

Parable of Women Without Men

There was war in the land, for centuries war in the land. The men werebred for labor, sperm donations, and death. The women were booty, thespoils of war. A classical situation, nothing unique, racist, call itthe art of war. Men must be destroyed, or humiliated, effeminated,castrated, dehumanized. Where is the movie of David Walker, Nat Turner,Denmark Vesey, Gabriel Prosser, Toussaint, Bokman?

There is no other way to exercise social control over the population ofoppres

Nations of the Americas, Stop fighting the USA's War On Drugs!

Posted by TheBlackList on June 1, 2010 at 10:00pm

Like the cold was fought far from the shore of the USA and USSR by proxy nations and armies and brought untold miseries to millions while and so that “Americans” could wantonly enjoy the "good life" and Russians could dream of the
supremacy of socialism; the Drug War has brought misery and death and lost
opportunities to thousands in the Americas.

It is time the nations of the Americas stop fighting USA's Drug War.

If the USA will not curb its appetite for drugs, nations of the Americas must cease

Round Midnight

Posted by Marvin X on June 1, 2010 at 12:58pm

Round Midnight

Monk's gone
but I ain't blue
Monk's gone
but I ain't blue
wherehe's going
I'm going too.

Death is always around
trying to steal life
death is always around
trying to steal life
If itdon't get the husband
It'll get the wife.

Monk's gone
but Iain't blue
Monk's gone
but I ain't blue.
--Marvin X
fromPoems for North American Africans, Marvin X, Al Kitab Sudan Press, 1983.

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