When you take a nearly 90% African American student population and you willfully ignore their culture while subjecting them to a European-American educational setting you set them up for psychological enslavement. The African student population is not permitted to engage in the process of knowing themselves, the story of their people on the map...
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I’d like to publicly express my prayers and condolences to Mr. Marshall “Eddie” Conway and family in light of the passing of his mother. Mr. Conway is Maryland’s longest serving political prisoner incarcerated 40 years ago while serving in Baltimore’s Black Panther Party. Activists and concerned citizens from Baltimore have been contacting the appropriate...
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Photo Credit: KPFK.Org Today we honor the memory and legacy of Brother El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz; Brother Malcolm X. He is a Great Ancestor who continues to speak as clearly today as he did when he walked the earth to those who have ears to hear him. In visiting my alma mater for a number...
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On this day in 1969, the headquarters of the Chicago Black Panther Party was targeted in a pre-dawn raid by the Chicago Police Department in partnership with J. Edgar Hoover’s Federal Bureau of Investigation. The “law” enforcement officers emptied their guns on every brown body in the building and when the smoke cleared they...
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I was pleased to see this weekend that BET finally covered someone who I believe was more dangerous that all others featured in the network’s hit TV show, American Gangster. J. Edgar Hoover the former Director for the Federal Bureau of Investigation got away with murder during the 1960′s – many times targeting Black...
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By Choolwe M. Mwetwa SOURCE: Jesuit Center for Theological Reflection It has been hotly debated whether the developed world owes poor countries like Zambia, a significant level of material assistance. For a number of reasons they obviously do. For instance, because some of the effects of poverty such as ignorance (that can result in...
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July 28, 2008 Laura Washington Chicago Sun-Times 350 N Orleans St Chicago, IL 60654 Dear Mrs. Washington: I am writing you this letter in response to your July 28, 2008 column. In it you describe our mother, the honorable Dorothy Wright Tillman, as having a “dismal” record as Alderman of the 3rd ward. Webster...
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Well, according to the United States he was a terrorist, but now he is a highly respected international diplomat. Mandela was on the United State’s Terror Watch List which made sure he had to jump through extra hoops to gain entry into the U.S. I’m sure his name being on that list also authorized...
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I am encouraged to see the revolutionary spirit alive and well in these young people from Cali who are Young Black Panthers dedicated to projecting the true image of The Panthers. They call themselves “The Riders” and they are all former Bloods and Crips who have evolved in their thinking to a higher, revolutionary...
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An excerpt from a 1963 speech by Bro. Malcolm X entitled “God’s Judgement of White America.” In this deceitful American game of power politics, the Negroes (i.e., the race problem, the integration and civil rights issues) are nothing but tools, used by one group of whites called Liberals against another group of whites called...
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