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Posted by Marvin X on April 25, 2010 at 12:00pm

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Rashidah Sabreen

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Marvin X

The African American Library/Museum

659 14^th 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

Chicago-Midwest

Senator Bill Brady Avoids Veteran Black Activists Mark Allen, Wallace "Gator" Bradley on Black Agenda

Posted by Mark S. Allen on April 25, 2010 at 12:29am

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community activists who said they would help expose Senator Brady and his campaign to Black voters who were upset and withdrawn their support of Governor Quinn and heard Brady on Black talk radio station WVON-AM that he wanted to reach out to Black voters in trying to earn their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

Chicago-Midwest

20 month (2 yr old) Cynia Cole's shooting in Chatham is the example of why Chicago police chief Jody Weis's new summer policing plan will NOT work

Posted by Mark S. Allen on April 25, 2010 at 12:08am

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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Chicago-Midwest

Norman Bolden, Former WGCI Radio Exec and Owner of Room 43 Planning Another Run For 4th Ward Alderman

Posted by Mark S. Allen on April 24, 2010 at 11:38pm

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

Chicago-Midwest

Norman Bolden, Former WGCI Radio Exec and Owner of Room 43 Planning Another Run For 4th Ward Alderman

Posted by Mark S. Allen on April 24, 2010 at 11:17pm

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

Chicago-Midwest

Republicans Exaggerate Alexi Giannouilias Role In Bank Takeover while Feds Made It Clear that employees and depsitors were safe.

Posted by Mark S. Allen on April 24, 2010 at 7:43pm

Republican Mark Kirk and his aides STRETCH the truth regarding Alexi Giannouilias and Bank employees and depositors

Parole Bid for Malcolm’s Assassin Halted?

Posted by TheBlackList on April 22, 2010 at 10:16pm

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

Lessons from Confederate History Month

Posted by TheBlackList on April 22, 2010 at 11:51am

By Ezrah Aharone:

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

Black Bird Press/Academy of Da Corner Benefit read in/teach in

Posted by Marvin X on April 22, 2010 at 1:30am

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

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,

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Haley's Comet

Posted by Raynard Jackson on April 22, 2010 at 12:00am

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

The Education of Jah Amiel

Posted by Marvin X on April 21, 2010 at 4:42am

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

Parable of the Catholic Church, et al.

Posted by Marvin X on April 20, 2010 at 3:58pm

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

The Manhood Line by Mike Ramey

Posted by Mike Ramey on April 18, 2010 at 8:04pm

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

Parable of the black brotherhood

Posted by Marvin X on April 17, 2010 at 10:39pm

Parable of the Black Brotherhood

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 of the Ash Cloud

Posted by Marvin X on April 17, 2010 at 11:24am

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

Marvin X and Rashidah Sabreen on KPFA radio, Monday, 9pm (www.kpfa.org)

Posted by Marvin X on April 16, 2010 at 9:25pm

www.kpfa.org

MarvinX and Rashidah on KPFA Monday, 9pm

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Marvin X will be interviewed and perform on the Greg Bridges s

Parable of Iraq

Posted by Marvin X on April 16, 2010 at 11:54am

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 of Desirelessness

Posted by Marvin X on April 16, 2010 at 2:30am

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

Posted by Marvin X on April 15, 2010 at 1:00pm

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

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Republicans and Adult-ery

Posted by Raynard Jackson on April 15, 2010 at 12:33am

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

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Sunday, April 25, 2010

Senator Bill Brady Avoids Veteran Black Activists Mark Allen, Wallace "Gator" Bradley on Black Agenda

20 month (2 yr old) Cynia Cole's shooting in Chatham is the example of why Chicago police chief Jody Weis's new summer policing plan will NOT work

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?

Norman Bolden, Former WGCI Radio Exec and Owner of Room 43 Planning Another Run For 4th Ward Alderman

Norman Bolden, Former WGCI Radio Exec and Owner of Room 43 Planning Another Run For 4th Ward Alderman

Republicans Exaggerate Alexi Giannouilias Role In Bank Takeover while Feds Made It Clear that employees and depsitors were safe.

Parole Bid for Malcolm’s Assassin Halted?

Lessons from Confederate History Month

Black Bird Press/Academy of Da Corner Benefit read in/teach in

Friday, April 23, 2010

BlackBird Press Benefit Read in/teach in

Haley's Comet

The Education of Jah Amiel

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Parable of the Catholic Church, et al.

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

The Manhood Line by Mike Ramey

Parable of the black brotherhood

Parable of the Ash Cloud

Marvin X and Rashidah Sabreen on KPFA radio, Monday, 9pm (www.kpfa.org)

www.kpfa.org

MarvinX and Rashidah on KPFA Monday, 9pm

Parable of Iraq

Friday, April 16, 2010

Parable of Desirelessness

Parable of the Old Lovers

Republicans and Adult-ery

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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?

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

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