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brotherpeacemaker: Nooses Are More Than Just Pranks

Posted in Activism, African-Americans, Black History, Crime, Geopolitics, History, Holocaust, Jean 6, Justice, Law, Leadership, Life, News, Racism on September 28, 2007 | 6 Comments »

This article is too good not to share. Click on image to be taken to it.

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Support the Newark Women

Posted in Activism, African/Black Women Blogs, Crime, Criminal Justice, Feminism, LGBTQ Community, News, R/WS on June 26, 2007 | 4 Comments »

from blogger Yolanda Carrington at The Primary Contradiction: Four African American lesbian women from Newark, New Jersey were sentenced this past June 14th to excessively long prison terms in New York for the crime of defending themselves against homophobic harassment and violence. These young sistas were railroaded by both a dismissively misogynist judge and by [...]

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Jena, Louisiana — Meet the Grassroots

Posted in Activism, African-Americans, Blogging, Crime, R/WS, Racism on June 8, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Thin Black Duke of Slant Truth has created a Facebook group and cause for the Jena Six.  Much obliged, man; much obliged.  There are a couple of other groups dedicated to the Jena Six too, if you’re interested in joining them.  The most important thing is to spread the word. THE PETITION IS NOW AVAILABLE [...]

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The Crisis of the African-American Male

Posted in Activism, African-Americans, Blogging, Business, Crime, Culture, Entertainment, Health Care, Life, Love, News, R/WS, Racism on June 8, 2007 | 28 Comments »

While exploring my net news links, I spotted this Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article titled “Invisible Men: Many young black males are in crisis,” and it included some disturbing statistics gathered from the National Urban League’s “The State of Black America: Portrait of the Black Male”: African-American men are more than twice as likely to be unemployed [...]

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Guest Blogger: Franklin Jones & The Black Matrix

Posted in Activism, African-Americans, Black History, Blogging, Business, Crime, Extreme Color Arousal, Genocide, Leadership, Life, News, Pan Africanism, Politics, R/WS, Racism on May 26, 2007 | 7 Comments »

THE RISE OF THE BLACK MATRIX In 1968, after the death of Dr. Martin Luther king Jr., there was much unrest, discord and wide-spread violence that which increasingly placed the peace and stability of the nation in dire jeopardy. This resulted in the decline of national stability and loss of lives and property that cost [...]

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Jena, Louisiana and the United States

Posted in Activism, African-Americans, Blogging, Crime, News, R/WS on May 22, 2007 | 45 Comments »

Thin Black Duke of Slant Truth has created a Facebook group and cause for the Jena Six.  Much obliged, man; much obliged.  There are a couple of other groups dedicated to the Jena Six too, if you’re interested in joining them.  The most important thing is to spread the word. THE PETITION IS NOW AVAILABLE [...]

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Lynching: A manifestation of E.C.E.I.B.D.

Posted in Activism, African-Americans, Black History, Blogging, Crime, Extreme Color Arousal, Genocide, Life, News, Pan Africanism, Politics, R/WS, Racism on May 21, 2007 | 4 Comments »

Electronic Village forwarded a post from his blog entitled: Manic Monday: Graphic. It deals with lynching in America and the efforts of James Allen, who collected photographs and postcards taken as souvenirs at some of these events. Mr. Allen published them in a book called: Without Sanctuary. As EV explains some of the history of lynching, he also provides [...]

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Funding Youth Offender Employment Programs

Posted in Activism, African-Americans, Business, Crime, Work on May 9, 2007 | 3 Comments »

The following information was supplied by African American Political Pundit here.  The deadlines look like they’re fast approaching, but both grants look like excellent candidates for the Hurricane Katrina rebuilding effort Mark Bey proposed and discussed here: For those who have links to community organizations interested in creating innovative programs for our youth and those [...]

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