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ChickenBones: A Journal

for Literary & Artistic African-American Themes

   

Contact      Mission -- Nathaniel Turner -- Marcus Bruce Christian -- Guest Poets --  Special Topics -- Rudy's Place -- The Old South  --  Worldcat

Film Review -- Books N Review -- Education & History -- Religion & Politics --- Literature & Arts  - Black Labor --Work, Labor & Business -- Music  Musicians  

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 ChickenBones: A Journal -- Historic Website -- Collected by Library of Congress   (Ich habe negerschwer gearbeitet. - Rudy)

 

Hip Sites: E-Notes / DemocracyNow  / Somos Primos Black Agenda Report   // Cost of War in Iraq  /  Body Count /  storySouth  / The Negro Artist  / WorldCat

Haiti Action.Net / SeeingBlack.Com  / ASILI  / BlackPoetic  / Ekere Tallie / David Morse  / The MoAD Story Project   / Richard Lawson

 Content Tables:  Amin Sharif  /   Eugene B. Redmond / Floyd W Hayes  /  Jerry Ward   Kalamu ya Salaam   /  Marvin X  /  Miriam DeCosta-Willis 

  Rose Mezu  /  Wilson J. Moses  / Aduku Addae   / Amiri Baraka /Anupama Bhargava  / Askia M. Toure   / Baldwin / Bonhoeffer  /   Ceylan   /  Claire Carew  

 Crystal Cartier     Dennis Leroy Moore / E Ethelbert Miller  / Ekere Tallie   / Eldridge Cleaver   /  Irene Monroe  /  Jamie Walker  / Jeannette Drake  / John Maxwell 

 John Oliver Killens  Jonathan Scott   /    JR Stanton   / Kam Wms / Kola Boof / Komunyakaa  / Langston Hughes  / Larry Uklai Johnson Redd /  Lasana Sekou

 Lil Joe / Lee Meitzen Grue  /   Louis Reyes Rivera  /  Mackie Blanton  / Mary E. Weems   / Miriam DeCosta-Willis Mona Lisa Saloy Naomi Ayala   

 Patricia Jabbeh Wesley   /   Peter Eric Adotey Addo   Richard Wright   /   Sterling A. Brown  / Thomas Long  /  Toussaint   / Uche Nworah    /   Ugochukwu  

WEB Du Bois   /    Yictove  /  Yvonne Terry  //  Art for Life  / Black Librarians   / Blacks & Labor in Print   /   Blacks and Prisons

  Black Arts and Black Power Figures  /   Black Librarians     /  Black Tech Review   / Conversations   / Cow Tom   /   Criminalizing a Race

 Different Drummer /  The Economy  /  Education History of the Negro   / Fifty Influential Figures   / Jim Jordan  /  Hip Hop  / Interviews  / Kalamu Interview 

Katrina Flood Index   / Katrina Survivor Stories   /   A Look at Israel   / Love, Sex, and Erotica /  Lynching  / Literary New Orleans  /  Maria Syphax Case 

 Mau Mau Aesthetics   /   Negro Catholic Writers   / Nuba-Darfur-South Sudan   /  Satchel Paige Sports   /  Short Stories   / Speeches & Sermons Table  

 Transitional Writings on Africa  / Tributes Obituaries Remembrances / Turner-Cone Theology   / Uncrowned Queens  /  Washerwomen    

// Obama 2008   //  Marvin Gaye sings American National Anthem

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An Appeal by The Committee to Keep ChickenBones Alive

 

   Conversation on ChickenBones Survival    Donate and Support our Fundraiser  Folk Life 

Send contributions to: ChickenBones: A Journal /  13219 Kientz Road / Jarratt, VA 23867--  Rudy, I don't know if I've mentioned it recently but 'bones looks great.  There's not much out there to compete with it as a presenter of Black literary and philosophical thought. I'm constantly referring folk to it. Chuck (9/28/07)

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Bring the Troops Home:  "A time comes when silence is betrayal." Beyond Vietnam A Time to Break Silence   (Martin Luther King)

Martin Luther King, "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam" / MLK: Mountaintop Speech (on War)

ChickenBones Best Poetry Book of 2008

 

An Unmistakable Shade of Red & The Obama Chronicles

New book of poems by Mary E.Weems

Mary E. Weems Table   4 Closure Poems Mary Weems on YouTube  Nomination

Black Poetic is a social consciousness raising, performance troupe I belong to that uses poetry to enlighten, inspire, and educate the Black community and the community at large with an emphasis on Black youth.—Peace, Mary

Wilson J. Moses  Files:   John Hope Franklin   Regulators, Obfuscators, and Inflators  / Thomas Friedman? Benjamin Franklin?  

 General Motors and General Petraeus / Republicans' Brilliant Cynical Coup   / Reaganite Denounces Bush?  / When the Master's Big House Burns

 Just Another Fine Gentleman  / Business, Industry, and Education for Success / If this be Lynching . . . (As in Merrill-Lynch)  / Economic status of African Americans‏ Eliot Spitzer, . . Whistle Blowing / Joe the Plumber and Adam Smith  / Aquinas, Smith, Jefferson, Malthus, Marx, Keynes  / Responses to an American Speculator  

Sam and Dave by Kalamu ya Salaam  (May 18, 2009)

(see videos) Right-Wing Radio Host Gets Waterboarded, and Lasts Six Seconds  / Behind the Scenes: Presidential Trip June 2 - 7

 

Miriam DeCosta-Willis

Hopkins first African-American PhD 

 By Keith Parent

Looking Toward Arbutus (Miriam DeCosta-Willis)

 

Dillard University's Creative Writing Program

Study with Published Award-Winning Writers

Mona Lisa Saloy and Dedra Johnson

 

Saloy Files: Red Beans and Ricely Yours (2005) WE: A Poem  For Frank Fitch  For Daddy V  Mother with Me on Canal Street  A Life Won with Blood & Tears

Mona Lisa Saloy Winner of the PEN Oakland National Literary Award   Trouble in Paradise (Mona Lisa Saloy) /   Red Beans and Ricely Yours -- Reviews

Creative writing + The Dillard Review  /  Mona Lisa’s First Website

Choreographing the Folk: The Dance Stagings of Zora Neale Hurston (Review by Kam Williams)

Notes to a Diabetic

Self-testing and Glucose Meters

from Ben Schwartz

The Price of Racial Reconciliation  / Contents White Nationalism  / White Nationalism  Reviews  /  Introduction White Nationalism  Legitimacy to Lead 

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My Friend the Devil

A Memoir of My Association With Eldridge Cleaver

By Marvin X

Marvin X  Celebrates His 65th Birthday On May 29, 2009 /  contact:  j_vern_cromartie@yahoo.com

whose really blues

By Q. R. Hand Jr.

 Poems by Glenis Redmond   Lifting   Mama's Magic   She   Mango   If I Aint African  Village Cry    

R. Dwayne Betts. A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison (2009): At the age of sixteen, R. Dwayne Betts—a good student from a lower-middle-class family—carjacked a man with a friend. He had never held a gun before, but within a matter of minutes he had committed six felonies. In Virginia, carjacking is a “certifiable” offense, meaning that Dwayne would be treated as an adult under state law. A bright young kid, weighing only 126 pounds—not enough to fill out a medium T-shirt—he served his eight-year sentence as part of the adult population in some of the worst prisons in the state.
A Question of Freedom: is a coming-of-age story, with the unique twist that it takes place in prison. Utterly alone—and with the growing realization that he really is not going home any time soon—Dwayne confronts profound questions about violence, freedom, crime, race, and the justice system. Above all, A Question of Freedom: is about a quest for identity—one that guarantees Dwayne’s survival in a hostile environment and that incorporates an understanding of how his own past led to the moment of his crime.

 

Shawn and Damien Wayans

The Dance Flick Interview with Kam Williams

May 21, 2009

Will. i. Am of Black Eyed Peas  / Jamie Foxx Riveting as Homeless Savant

Kam Williams Interviews:  Alicia Keys  Cornel West   Naturi Naughton  Malik Zulu Shabazz  / Djimon Hounsou in New Movie  / Kam Williams Interviews Rashida Jones

Towards a Black Aesthetic By Hoyt W. Fuller, Author of Journey to Africa

 

Seneca Turner's Thoughts upon Revisiting Hip Hop

A Rejoinder Beyond Either/Or Thinking

By Floyd W Hayes, III

 April 28, 2009

 Askia M. Touré Dawnsong Reviews  / Rudy Interviews Askia Touré   /  Rudy Interviews Askia Touré 2  /  Osirian Rhapsody: A Myth 

   Askia on Pan Africanism  /  Black Arts and Black Power Figures  /  Askia Toure' Talks To Konch  / Black Arts Movement  / Three for “O” in Light and Shadow

Black Arts and Cultural Revolution (Askia M. Touré) / Dingane Joe Goncalves  / Journal of Black Poetry Festival   

ChickenBones Best Book of 2009

 

Go, Tell Michelle

 Barbara A. Seals Nevergold and Peggy Brooks-Bertram

Las Acciones Simples

se Pueden Desarmar

By Rudolph Lewis

Women Talking to Michele Vas-y, Parle à Michelle  Par: Jacqueline Jean-Baptiste

I am because we are and since we are therefore I am (The Soho of South Africa ) / The society made up of brothers and sisters provides strength. (Igbo of Nigeria)

Poet Laureate Eugene B. Redmond

Eighty Moods of Maya  / Images and Homages: "Memwars"

DrumVoices Revue

Dudley RandallPublisher, Editor, Poet

April is National Poetry Month

Unity's all we ask and need

For Rudy Lewis

By Richard Lawson

Media Crisis and Grassroots Response
By Jordan Flaherty

 Jena Ignites a Movement   K-Ville Cop TV Show  

World Social Forum Diary 

Akoli Penoukou:  Love One Another / The Ancestors Are Not Really Dead  /  Into His Arms  / On Learning of Walter Rodney's Death & Other Poems 

Iraqi police get motivational speech by Army solider. / Iraqi police strike fear with rape and beatings

 Speeches & Sermons:   -- The American Dream is Under Siege at Home (Bill Clinton) / Time to Take Back the Country We Love (Hillary Clinton)

The America George Bush Has Left Us (Joe Biden) / We Must Listen and Lead by Example (John Kerry)  / Seize this Opportunity for Change (Al Gore)

Reclaiming America’s SoulOthers, I suspect, would rather not revisit those [Bush] years because they don’t want to be reminded of their own sins of omission. For the fact is that officials in the Bush administration instituted torture as a policy, misled the nation into a war they wanted to fight and, probably, tortured people in the attempt to extract “confessions” that would justify that war. And during the march to war, most of the political and media establishment looked the other way. It’s hard, then, not to be cynical when some of the people who should have spoken out against what was happening, but didn’t, now declare that we should forget the whole era — for the sake of the country, of course. Sorry, but what we really should do for the sake of the country is have investigations both of torture and of the march to war. These investigations should, where appropriate, be followed by prosecutions — not out of vindictiveness, but because this is a nation of laws. We need to do this for the sake of our future. For this isn’t about looking backward, it’s about looking forward — because it’s about reclaiming America’s soul. NYTimes  America With Its Pants Down  / The Dark Side of Obedience / A Lie Unravels the World 

Ralph Clingan Lively Living Word  /  An Annual Clingan Christmas Letter  / Against Cheap Grace   /  Nuking Westerns and White Manliness

Ethiopia: Peoples of the Omo Valley—Within the most remote part of Ethiopia, centuries from modernity, Hans Sylvester photographed for six years tribes where men, women, children and elders are true geniuses of ancestral art. At their feet the Omo River across a triangle of Ethiopia, Sudan and Kenya, the grand valley of the Rift that is slowly separating Africa.  It is a volcanic region providing an immense palette of pigments, ocher-red, white kaolin, copper-green, luminous yellow and ash-grey. They are painting geniuses and their six feet tall bodies are an immense canvas. The strength of their art can be defined in three words: their fingers, speed, and freedom. They draw with their open hands, their nails and fingertips, sometimes with a wooden stick, a reed, a smashed stalk. They draw with swift, rapid and spontaneous gestures beyond childlikeness, these essential movements that great contemporary masters are looking for when they have learned a lot and are trying to forget it all. The Omo merely want to decorate themselves, to seduce, be beautiful, have fun and endless pleasure.  Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa  /  Online slideshow

The Cost of Lies -- America With Its Pants Down    The Dark Side of Obedience    Locked Up   A Lie Unravels the World  Lies Truth and Unwaged Housework

Atlanta Constitution on Race Problem    Origin of Segregation     Intermarriage a No-No       Who Wants Integration      The Problem of Integration      The Racial Problem

What credibility is there in Geneva's all-white boycott?What do the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Italy and Israel have in common? They are all either European or European-settler states. And they all decided to boycott this week's UN ­conference against racism in Geneva – even before Monday's incendiary speech by the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad which triggered a further white-flight walkout by representatives of another 23 European states. In international forums, it's almost unprecedented to have such an ­undiluted racial divide of whites-versus-the-rest. And for that to happen in a global meeting called to combat racial hatred doesn't exactly augur well for future international understanding at a time when the worst economic crisis since the war is ramping up racism and xenophobia across the world. . . .The dispute was mainly about Israel and western fears that the conference would be used, like its torrid predecessor in Durban at the height of the Palestinian intifada in 2001, to denounce the Jewish state and attack the west over colonialism and the slave trade. Guardian