Today, veteran Black poltical activists Wallace "Gator" Bradley and Mark Allen accuse Illinois Senator Bill Brady of being non responsive to their overtues on behalf of few hundred Black community activists who said they would help expose Senator Brady and his campaign to Black voters who were upset and withdrawn their support of Governor Quinn and heard Brady on Black talk radio station WVON-AM that he wanted to reach out to Black voters in trying to earn their support. Bradley and Allen now re
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Today, veteran Black poltical activists Wallace "Gator" Bradley and Mark Allen accuse Illinois Senator Bill Brady of being non responsive to their overtues on behalf of few hundred Black community activists who said they would help expose Senator Brady and his campaign to Black voters who were upset and withdrawn their support of Governor Quinn and heard Brady on Black talk radio station WVON-AM that he wanted to reach out to Black voters in trying to earn their support. Bradley and Allen now re
How does a simple deployment of new police officers address the state of mind, social conscioussness, lack of respect of law enforcement, and the ongoing street battles over desperate economic conditionns that drive the vionece, plan to stop it ? ?
Where are the plans to deal "hands-on" with the mindet of a people, OR the plans to find more innovative ways for people to make money this summer from something other that the illegal street environments?
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Norman Bolden is a former award winning radio executive at radio station WGCI and currently a local proprty owner which includes ownership if the new popular banquet facility called Room 43, and again it appears that Norman Bolden is planning another run for Alderman of the 4th Ward. Friends of Bolden began to call around and let his poosible plans be known to run again, after a headline story appeared on the front page of a major Hyde Park newspaper which featured what many viewed as a sure thi
Norman Bolden is a former award winning radio executive at radio station WGCI and currently a local proprty owner which includes ownership if the new popular banquet facility called Room 43, and again it appears that Norman Bolden is planning another run for Alderman of the 4th Ward. Friends of Bolden began to call around and let his poosible plans be known to run again, after a headline story appeared on the front page of a major Hyde Park newspaper which featured what many viewed as a sure thi
Republican Mark Kirk and his aides STRETCH the truth regarding Alexi Giannouilias and Bank employees and depositors
Why during the midst of the federal takeover of The Broadway Bank did we not see bank employees on Tv crying about the jobs they lost or a rush on the bank by bank depositors withdrawing their accounts in fear of their money being lost by the takeover?
Maybe its because federal regulators publicy assured Bank employees that their current jobs were safe, and that ALL bank accounts we
By LittleRed:
A funny thing happened while on the way to a press conference officially condemning the release of an assassin of Malcolm X from the NY state prison system, Zayid Muhammad, the press officer for the Malcolm X Commemoration Committee, got one of the most polite phone calls he had ever received.
The call came from of all places the NY State Parole Board.
“We had already made our condemnation known to the governor. We sounded the drum for the community to do the same. I guess someb
Next year in April commemorates the 150th anniversary of America’s Civil War. So under the pretext to “encourage tourism” in Virginia, which has over 100 Confederate monuments, GOP Governor Bob McDonnell dusted-off an old proclamation that declares April as “Confederate History Month.” Not only did he revive it, he removed a clause stating “that slavery was one of the causes” of the war.
President Obama called this “an unacceptable omission,” while members of Virginia’s Legisla
Friday, April 23, 2010
BlackBird Press Benefit Read in/teach in
Black Bird Press/Academy of Da Corner
Benefit
Read in/teach in
Book Party
Read in/teach in
Book Party
To celebrate the publication of The Wisdom of Plato Negro, Parables/Fables,I am asking poets, writers and community people to join in readingfrom the parables/fables. The following are especially invited toread:
Ishmael Reed, Cecil Brown, devorah major, Ayodele Nzingha(confirmed), Linda Johnson, Phavia Khujichagulia, Tureada Mikel,Paradise (confirmed), Art Sheridan,
April 22, 2010
Raynard Jackson
Just like Halley’s Comet only comes around every so often, so does a politician like Mississippi governor, Haley Barbour. He is completing his second term as governor and is term limited from seeking another term. Barbour, a lawyer by training, has one of the most impressive backgrounds of anyone on the political scene today.
He ran for the U.S. Senate in the early 80s (lost), worked in the Reagan White House, the campaign of Bush 41, and served as chairman of the pa
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
The Educationof Jah Amiel
Jah Amiel went out the backdoor ofhis house and knocked on his grandpa's door. Grandpa was lying downproofreading but got up when he heard his grandson at the door. He hadto get up for the little savior of the world, as his grandson told himhe was going to be.
He opened the door and Jah Amiel came in on amission as he nears his third year on earth, May 31. "I want to see theAmerican," he told his grandpa excitedly.
What?
The American!
What?
TheAmeric
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Parable ofthe Catholic Church, et al.
They have defiled children forcenturies, without hesitation or remorse. They molested children wholost their innocence forever, who in turn became molesters themselves,passing on this evil from generation to generation.
Hiding behindtheir robes was filth and squalor, deceiving the righteous of theirbirthright to be holy and pure as the driven snow. They are anabomination unto the Lord and He shall destroy this house utterly, rootand bran
MEMO: KILLING THE ‘LEADERLESS’ LIE
BY MIKE RAMEY
While the Depression-that-no-one-wants-to-admit-we-are-in continues, the end of the school year is rapidly approaching. Schools across the land are getting hammered with firings, layoffs and a variety of hiring and pay freezes. Not just the ‘great’ schools but ALL schools--whether they be private, parochial, public or charter.
And the teachers said: “AMEN”.
However--left out of the discussion is the fact that a lot of school WASTE has been exposed to
The brotherhood is in shambles, from hood to hood, coast to coast, sea to shining sea. It is as Walter Rodney described in his monograph West Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade: brother is against brother. There is no trust, only hatred, only the desire to kill at the drop of a hat, the glance of an eye. And sometimes it is on purpose, for the hatred is solid and unequivocal, based on religion or ideology or class or color. Christians hate Muslims, and the revers
Parable ofthe Ash Cloud
"When the earth is shaken to its utmostconvulsion
And the earththrows up its burdens from within
And man cries distressed, 'What is the matter with it?....
--Al Qur'an, Surah 99, Al Zalzalah
(TheEarthquake)The calamity!
What is the calamity?
And what will make thee know how terrible isthe calamity?
The daywherein men will be as scattered moths.
And the mountains will be as carded wool.
Then as for him whose measure (of gooddeeds) is heavy
He willlive a pleasant life.
And asfor him w
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Friday, April 16, 2010
Parable ofIraq
The war in Iraq has not begun. It shall beginwhen the Americans leave--now what day might that be? They are still inGermany, Japan, and elsewhere. They ain't in Vietnam, ha? But in Iraq,they have merely opened Pandora's box. As they draw down, the spiritsshall dance in the desert winds.
The Shia have power they'venever had before, not since before the martyrdom of their imams afterthe death of the prophet. The Shia say to hell with the democraticprocess, there
Parable ofDesirelessness
During his life, he'd hadeverything, money, dope, women, more love than any man could handle. In short, he was spoiled rotten. Now he was bored to tears. Maybe he was just an ungrateful bastard, since his cup had run over with goodness and mercy.
While on drugs, he discovered he needed very little,although he desired much. As a dope addict he survived on nothing but dope. No woman, no sex, food, clothes, bath, place to stay. Nothing but dope. For a time he lived in a card
Parable of the Old Lovers
They met in their twenties. Shecelebrated her 21st birthday with him, making mad love in his room on Page Street in San Francisco. It was the 60s, around the time of that great Summer of Love. Haight Street was full of hippies in love. These lovers were among them, black hippies. Smoking weed. Dropping LSD. Spreading black nationalism. Studying Islam. Black Arts West Theatre. Black Panthers. Black Student Union. Huey, Bobby, Eldridge, Kathleen, Angela. Malcolm. Elijah. M
Republicans and Adult-ery
April 15, 2010Raynard Jackson
Now that I have everyone’s attention, let’s talk about the one way the Republicans can negate the momentum they have gained heading into the fall elections.
Political analysts all agree that this fall’s elections will be a referendum on the Obama administration and the Democratic controlled Congress. If the elections were held today, in all likelihood, the Democrats would be handily defeated in both the house and the senate (not enough to take
Parable ofthe Elephant
An African elephant lived in a zoo and oftenperformed in a circus doing tricks. His keeper dominated him, oppressing his natural desire to be free. The trainer made him do tricks he had no desire to do, but he went along with the program.
One day theelephant got tired of following commands. He no longer wanted tostand on his hind legs or on one leg.
He rebelled and stomped his trainer. Whenhis master came to the rescue, the elephant stomped him too. He broke from the circus a
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