As a young lady during the sixties, while barely able to speak english (my choice to use a small e) LOL ,i overstood (my choice to use the small letter i) that the color of my skin had the AUDACITY" to crush my HOPE" and cause them to disintegrate, and crash into oblivion.
However that was not to be. Why one may ask?
Because of Al Hajj Malik Al Shabazz. Whom i listened to weekly and sometimes more while living with my family in Harlem during the sixties. You see (most know) Malcolm, was no strange
Since the early days of my life as a RN, (BEFORE LAW) Public HN, and now as a Nurse practioner with an inner city medical group of Cuban and Haitian Africans, the stats and numbers have amazed me. i have been labeled the disbeliever by my colleagues both at the IP as well as at the medical facility.
However, where i realize and accept that it is not simply a matte
April 29, 2010
Raynard Jackson
My position on illegal immigration is very public—I DO NOT SUPPORT AMNESTY under any circumstances. So, with the new illegal immigration bill signed into law in Arizona and the volume of phone calls seeking my opinion, I have decided to share my thoughts on this issue.
But this time, I want to try a different approach. Those who are interested in my detailed views on illegal immigration can go to my website and read some of my previous columns of this subject. In thi
The Mid-Ocean News – Bermuda
Friday, March 8, 2002
Poet Peggy puts social ills in the spotlight in her new CD
“After the launching of her debut CD, entitled Truthfully Speaking: History, Music & Poetry, local
poet Peggy Burns’ red-hot topics have succeeded in bringing many of the island’s social ills to the forefront.
This totally local production is thought-provocative and the different musical genres t
The March 2010 CDC report stated that nearly half of black women in the U.S. carried the Herpes virus. Here's why those statistics and others like them may be misleading.
The March 2010 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sited startling high levels of the genital herpes virus among African American woman. The report found that 48 percent of African-American women have been exposed to the virus that causes genital herpes. The report gave many African Americans the al
White networks are beginning to charge for their services and instead of black social networks capitalizing on how we differ from them that would encourage blacks to join us these black networks like Izania continue to report and advance white networks while hypocritically proclaiming that:
"There are social networks for nearly every interest group. The iZania online community at www.izania.com was a social network for descendants of Africa before Facebook, and Twitter, but we utilize these tool
http://www.thegrio.com/opinion/immigrants-fight-could-pit-black-against-brown.php
So, is this another attempt to play the race card, or is this a simple case of " in your face dislike, jealousy, or fear" that created this debaucle..or perhaps both?
And if neither, what and what can be or should be done?
i have my own thoughts as a native Spanish speaker?
spktruth2power
90milesfromMiami
Would this make a diff?
http://www.catfht.org/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=15&year=2010&month=05&
As a woman from Cuba and A NON
As a non Latina/Hispanic Spanish speaking sistah from Cuba to be exact, i am clear concerning the relentless efforts by the former major society to annihilate, eradicate, stilfle, suffocate, smother and literally murder and remove from the face of the earth " THE AFRICAN MAN".
While traveling recently to Atlanta, as a ProBono Atty and supporter of the Innocense Project, while in my hotel, i began to re-read the book "Yoruga" by Marimba Ani. While reading, I began to
Marvin X
The African American Library/Museum
659 14th Street @ Martin Luther King, Jr
Downtown Oakland
Proudly presents
A benefit read-in/teach-in
Book party
Celebrating the release of
Marvin X’s
The Wisdom of Plato Negro
Parables/fables
Saturday, May 15, 2pm
donation for book $100.00
RSVP 510-637-0200
Participants include
Rashidah Sabreen, Augusta Collins, Michelle LaCha
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