I FIRST HEARD the haunting, beautiful song, "Olive Tree" (sung, I later learned, by a woman named Zhu Feng Bo), at the beginning of a rather quizzical online video posted by Christoph Rehage, called, "Time Lapse: Growing a Beard and Walking to Germany", which chronicles a long journey taken on foot.In the process of his long journey, although he starts out inside a room, clean shaven, Rehage grows a beard. The somewhat whimsical visual log he made of the journey, which I stumbled across while su
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From The RampartsJunious Ricardo StantonIt’s Up To Us“We must give up the silly idea of folding our hands and waiting upon God to do everything for us. If God intended that He would not have given us a mind; He would not have given us intelligence; He would not have given us His Soul; He would not have placed us here in the midst of creation and surrounded us with all the beautiful things of nature. Whatsoever you want in life you must make up your mind to do it for yourself and accomplish it foRead more…
BLACK BOOK AWARD GIVEN IN NAME OF YAHHA ABDUL KARIM
Pioneering Independent Black Writer, Publisher and Muslim, Yahya Abdul Karim “joined the ancestors” in 2008. 2009 will be one of only three years his presence will not be there, when Black Writers gather at Khalifah’s Estate to “validate and celebrate” Black writers at the 18th presentation of Black Book Awards for Excellence in Black Literature.
Brother Yahya will not be there but his spirit surely will. He was especially adept at recogniz
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Black Jewish Relations Under Obama:Reopening Old WoundsPaul ScottApril 21st is Holocaust Remembrance Day, a day set aside to remember the the Jews who suffered under the Nazi regime. No one can fault an ethnic group for honoring the deaths of millions of its brothers and sisters. However, as a descendant of those who experienced their own African Holocaust I find myself, selfishly, asking "what about us ?"My feeling of unapologetic, self centeredness has become more pronounced in the aftermath o
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Reparations 101:The Context CardBy Minister Ari S. Merretazon, M.S.CED, Board Member, Northeast Representative,National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA)Too many people in high, middle, and low places in America are still in denial about the crimes against humanity represented by the monstrous destruction of human life, culture, and human possibilities called The Holocaust of African Enslavement and Trade.This human tragedy covers a continuum from 1440 to the present.Often
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End-of-the-world Amerikkka is crazy on ice, and far from heaven.And Black people (African Americans, Colored People, Knee-Grows, whatever we are this week) are unfortunately no exception. Americans have long enjoyed our tradition of being the mongrels of the other nations, from the Puritains to the Pilgrims, to the hordes of Europeans and Asians and Latins and latter day (non enslaved) Africans, to everyone else who has come here seeking freedom, money, power, or land. There is nothing wrong wit
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BF BANKIE:‘ There are sizeable Black African populations in south Libya, northern Chad and south Algeria – but less in the latter. I can hardly see any African-Arab Borderlands in 100-500-1000 years. The African people will be freed and taking a lead, turning the tables on the oppressors’. Garba Diallo –Mauritanian‘Chad is a Black nation with a minority of Arabs in the northern and eastern parts of the country. Yes, southern Libya and Algeria are Black countries with millions of invisible oppresRead more…
February 4, 2009You are being lied to about piratesby Johann HariSomali pirate “ships” are small, but the ships they seize are huge. They held one gigantic tanker for months until ransom was paid. Somali pirate “ships” are small, but the ships they seize are huge. They held one gigantic tanker for months until ransom was paid.Who imagined that in 2009, the world’s governments would be declaring a new War on Pirates? As you read this, the British Royal Navy - backed by the ships of more than two
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April 16, 2009Raynard JacksonTalking with Black Republicans is a moving experience---the more I talk to them, the more I want to move away! The caricature of most Black Republicans is that they are not connected with the Black community and are constantly seeking the approval of the powers that be within the party.Well, I have been Black most of my life and would posit this question: “if Black Republicans were taken to a court of law and accused of being connected, involved and making a differen
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Posted by TheBlackList on April 15, 2009 at 9:09am
An Open Email to All of The Heads of State and Government in the Americas!
Your Excellencies:
We hope this open email finds you, your families, and your people in
the very best of health and spirits. Permit us a few minutes of your
time to make this request.
The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) is the inheritor and
continuator of the mass, revolutionary, Pan-African work of Kwame
Nkrumah, Ahmed Sekou Toure and Kwame Ture, whom you may know as
Stokely Carmichael.
Perhaps you are
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“I didn't take my go-kart out of the house until Mr. Batt came home. He couldn't push me. It was everything for the nurse to bring him out to his porch for some sun. A few weeks before he died, he said their are no black people or white people and no really below: lynching of 16 year old, Lige Daniels in Texasgood people or really bad people. Just people. He told me about his father who'd been lynched by hateful white men, because his father chose to party with Black people. Back then I didn't uRead more…
Caucasians United for Reparations and Emancipation:
Shameful U.S. Boycott Must Be Opposed
When the Obama administration announced it would boycott the upcoming UN Durban Review Conference in Geneva, designed as a follow-up to the 2001 World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) held in Durban, South Africa, news media insisted the boycott had to do with Israel. But a decision that has followed the boycott seems to indicate the second half of the Obama administration's demand -- that references to r
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The gun and ship of enslavement["Like a machine it transformed the lives of Africans and Europeans alike. Europeans came to America freely with a design of a new way of life in their hearts and minds." Africans were kidnapped and shipped in chains with their life design already made, in the hearts and minds of Europeans. So terrifying was this technology that it forced Africans to worship Christianity/Jesus Christ."]The ruling classes of Western Europe were able to conquer the world between 1400
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Anyar Ngang Alith:I have been contemplating about writing this topic for a long time. But something keeps me from writing it. One of the days I went to bed at 12:00 midnight and I dreamt in my sleep that South Sudan had declared unilateral independence, and it had been recognized by a dozen nations in the region and internationally.So when I awoke there was no such news, and I guess my brain was screwed.Now what? I would get into my favourite subject of all subjects in the world of politics toda
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They told me "He hate you Niggah! Can't you see."Carrying a rusted old hammer with a splintered pommel, wrapped in melting, sticky, black, electrical tape and a bucket of bent and twisted nails, I walked up the street toward the stack of boards and bent baby coach wheels, imagining I'd be like one of the kids on Bill Cosby's "Dead Man's Hill" from the album "Wonderfulness". (*tangent)- I don't know how many times I stole it from my dad or how many times he'd take the record off the spindle, put
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Ronald B. McGuire:REMINDER: 40th Anniversary of City College Black and Puerto Rican Students' strike - Wednesday, April 22, 2009, at noon on Liberation Hill (Remembrance Rock) at City College. Due to construction please use the gate house entrance to the City College South Campus at 133rd Street and Convent Avenue.
Youngbloods, Elders and Friends:
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at noon alumni, students, faculty and community members will
gather at Remembrance Rock on the South Campus of Harlem U
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Do you know any Black males who are seniors in high school who want to go to college out of state for FREE. Several Black Colleges are looking for future black male teachers and will send them to universities/colleges for 4 years FREE.
The 'Call Me MISTER' program is an effort to address the critical shortage of African American male teachers particularly among South Carolinas lowest performing public schools. Program participants are selected from among under-served, socio-economically disadva
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From The RampartsJunious Ricardo StantonFood For ThoughtProjection: attributing one own traits, attitudes or faults to others. - Dictionary of PsychologyThe reaction by the Obama administration to North Korea’s launch of a satellite borders on psychosis given all the satellites the US, its’ allies and supposed adversaries have currently orbiting the planet. I suspect the US conniptions about North Korean launching a satellite using an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) is nothing more tha
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Posted by TheBlackList on April 12, 2009 at 7:57pm
KOLA BOOF:
I am asking every BLACK MAN I know to please
answer this question.
Printed in RED is Troy Johnson's response to the furor over Puff Daddy's recent Casting CALL requesting "White, Latina and Light-Skinned African-American Models" only fo his new ads.
TROY said:
Yeah, I can't bring myself to get riled up about this issue. Who really other than the models who were excluded from the jobs gives a darn.
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