ChickenBones: A Journal
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A Literary Anthology by Gang Members and Their Affiliates Edited by Louis Reyes Rivera and Bruce George Debuts @ Hue-Man Book Store & Café / Monday, June 9, 2008, at 6pm |
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Images and Homages:‘Memwars’ From the Eugene B. Redmond Collection Edited by Howard Rambsy II |
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By Miriam DeCosta-Willis
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Henry Blasius Masuko Chipembere -- Chipembere: The Missing Years. |
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The Difference Between Black Brazil and Black U.S. (Italo Ramos) / Chinese Invasion of Nigeria (Alinnnor Arinze) |
Poems from Kin'lin for the Soul by Beverly Jenai That which binds . . . / My Friend Yictove / Richard Chenault II—2007 A Hero Passed On |
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Fidel Castro May Day Speech 2007 It Is Imperative to Have an Energy Revolution / Global News: Politics—Literature & the Arts |
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Native Americans say NO to Hilary Clinton by Carter Camp, Ponca Nation |
| Sandra West files: We Are A Dancing People Leslie Garland Bolling Wendy Stand Up with Your Proud Hair! Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance |
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Ugliness in the Beautiful Game The United States Women’s Soccer Team Loses to Brazil By Amin Sharif |
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Banning Saggy Pants is the Wrong Conversation (Bruce Dixon) Sagging Pants: The Real Deal (Ramey) |
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In Memory of Mother Griot Mary Carter Smith Poem by Beverly Fields Burnette Searching for my Great Grandmother at Stonewall Voices of the Culture Search for Black Men: Vietnam Post-Mortem |
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Why was Belafonte’s Oakland star-studded gathering whited out by mainstream media? (Marvin X) |
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Farewell Letter from Curtis Muhammad A Message the Left and Progressive Forces inside the USA |
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'Self-Help': A Stolen Word Wielded as a Weapon Against Black Activism By BAR executive editor Glen Ford |
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Man dies after cop hits him with Taser 9 times—A police officer shocked a handcuffed Baron "Scooter" Pikes nine times with a Taser after arresting him on a cocaine charge. He stopped twitching after seven, according to a coroner's report. Soon afterward, Pikes was dead. Now the officer, since fired, could end up facing criminal charges in Pikes' January death after medical examiners ruled it a homicide. Dr. Randolph Williams, the Winn Parish coroner, told CNN the 21-year-old sawmill worker was jolted so many times by the 50,000-volt Taser that he might have been dead before the last two shocks were delivered. Williams ruled Pikes' death a homicide in June after extensive study. CNN How Scores of Black Men Were Tortured Into Giving False Confessions by Chicago Police—How Scores of Black Men Were Tortured Into Giving False Confessions by Chicago Police—By 1999, it was "common knowledge," according to U.S. District Judge Milton Shadur, "that in the early to mid-1980s, (Jon Burge) and many officers working under him regularly engaged in the physical abuse and torture of prisoners to extract confessions. Both internal police accounts and numerous lawsuits and appeals brought by suspects alleging such abuse substantiate that those beatings and other means of torture occurred as an established practice, not just on an isolated basis." Alternet |
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Oprah's Bid for Obama Oppresses Gays (Irene Monroe) The battle on the home front The media problem with black lesbians / Global News: Politics—Literature & the Arts |
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Black Votes, the Senate, and Voter Suppression Vote NO on Hans von Spakovsky's Confirmation By The Color Of Change Team |
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Mary Carter Smith is Now an Ancestor Known Nationwide for Reviving and Promoting Storytelling as an Art |
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Just Another Dead
Nigger! Market for Ni$$as Global News:Politics—Literature & the Arts |
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The State of HBCUs for Black Students & Faculty / Wole Soyina Kongi's Harvest / Black Mama, White Son |
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Nuking Nagasaki & Hiroshima, Our Nuking Nevada Incinerating Pretty Girls, Atmospheric Radiation, Our Callousness Americans Remember & Speak Out |
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The media problem with black lesbians By Rev. Irene Monroe The battle on the home front |
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Don't Spend ANY money — Show a sign of solidarity It is outrageous that Walters is still pursuing charges against the Jena 6, and it's even more outrageous that he's being given political cover by the Governor, by Louisiana's District Attorney Association, and even by the New York Times. Anyone can file a complaint against an attorney by sending a letter to the Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board, the organization that has the power to take action against Walters, and we want them to hear from as many of us as possible. We've prepared the letter. All you have to do is add your address and put it in the mail. When you send your letter, please let us know at walterscomplaint@colorofchange.org . If lots of you send letters, we'll use those numbers to get the media to cover the story, adding more pressure on the Disciplinary Board to act. The road to justice in Jena Or Jena, Take Those Nooses Down |
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When I Became a Woman By Vera Ezimora |
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Urban Expressionism (Mwalim*7) / Radicalism in the South Since Reconstruction (Smethurst) |
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Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption Edited By Jane Jeong Trenka, Julia Chinyere Oparah, Sun Yung Shin |
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The whole truth about Barack Obama—Barack Obama has repeatedly made it crystal clear that he is pro Zionist, pro the interests of big business corporations over common people, pro widening the US military/industrial complex through increasing the US military and its budget, and last but certainly not least—he is not opposed to using unilateral US military force to insure what he refers to as "US interests" in other parts of the world. . . . Barack Obama's being biologically an African American is absolutely no legitimate reason to discard honest and in-depth coverage of where he really stands and has stood on life and death economic and military matters affecting this nation and the entire world. Blindly supporting the candidacy of Barack Obama is in fact inverse white racism, and there is nothing in the least bit progressive about that. Barack Obama and those who support him need to be asked the hard and tough questions, not "coddled". . . . Putting a biologically Black face on imperialism and empire as if that changes or ameliorates its horrible affects is entirely unacceptable. As a member of the human family, a Black person, and a US citizen, I am deeply disappointed with Democracy Now, but sadly, not surprised.— Larry Pinkney |
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Articles by Deborah D. Moseley -- Beethoven, the Black Spaniard Review of Amiri Baraka's Essence of Reparations Sam Cooke and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
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Post-Katrina Redevelopment excludes 'poor and working-class black New Orleanians from returning home'—Katrina pummeled nearly 51,700 rentals in the area. More than 29,000 affordable-rent units vanished. The social-service coalition UNITY estimated last year that homelessness had roughly doubled to about 12,000 people across New Orleans and neighboring Jefferson Parish. Yet HUD has opposed a recent proposal in Congress to mandate that all demolished units are comparably replaced in the redevelopment process. Meanwhile, using HUD's data, advocates estimate that restoring the projects would cost less than demolition and redevelopment. . . . The Brookings Institute, a centrist think tank, reports that over two years since Katrina made landfall, the area still counts among the casualties about two fifths of its public schools and two fifths of its hospitals. Of over $2 billion in federal funds allocated for infrastructure restoration in Orleans Parish, only about 30 percent has actually been distributed to projects. 'It's a self-fulfilling prophecy on the government's part,' says Anita Sinha, an attorney with the Advancement Project, one of the groups litigating the class-action suit. 'They're making it such that people can't come home.' Women's International Perspective |
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A 19th-century Don Imus—In 1895 John W. Jacks, president of the Missouri Press Association, wrote an open letter denigrating Black women, claiming that they were "wholly devoid of morality and that they were prostitutes, thieves and liars." He was referring to ALL of them. The letter was sent to Florence Balgarnie of the British Anti-Lynching Committee in an attempt to discredit Ida B. Wells and her anti-lynching campaign in the South. Ida B. Wells had written her book on the number of lynchings in the South and had visited Britain and traveled throughout that country telling the world about lynching in America. The British population was outraged as the British Press gave a lot of copy to Ida B creating great embarrassment in the US. Sooooooooooo, more than 100 years ago, a white man—note that he was with a PRESS association—was calling black women prostitutes or in the truncated version "hos" and this was more than 80 years before black male rappers used the term. Don''t get me wrong, I hate the term but let's just set the record straight. Remember, John Henri Clarke said: History is the clock by which we tell our cultural and political time of day. Let us not be lazy with our history, it can come in handy. |
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A Post-Imus Discussion on Race, Gender, & Corporate Power in America Rudy Mackie |
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Gladys Barker Grauer Defends Artistic Freedom "Free Mumia Abu Jamal" and "Free Leonard Peltier" Removed from Exhibit |
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Our Women Keep our Skies From Falling Six Essays in Support of The Struggle To Smash Sexism/Develop Women By Kalamu ya Salaam "Revolutionary Struggle/Revolutionary Love" / Our Women Keep Our Skies From Falling / Preface: It Aint Easy Debunking Myths / Rape: A Radical Analysis / "Women's Rights Are Human Rights" |
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Charles Tisdale Newspaper and Community Man By C. Liegh McInnis |
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Historical Context for Hip Hop Store in Malawi A Response by Masauko Chipembere Son Father |
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Lives and Times of the Quadroons (Excerpts by Eleanor Early) / For the Love of Rebecca The Murder of Charlie Poole
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The "N-Word" and the Psychology of Black Oppression By Professor Gershom Williams |
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By Keenan Norris Coal, Charcoal, and Chocolate Comedy fresno gone Freedom Vision The Dark Role of Excess in Literary Marketplace |
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Obama's Community Roots—After a transient youth and an earnest search for identity, Obama also found a home—a community with which he continued relationships, a church and a political identity. He honed his talent for listening, learned pragmatic strategy, practiced bringing varied people together and developed a faith in ordinary citizens that still influences his campaign message. He discovered the importance of personal storytelling in politics (and wrote short stories that refined his style). Later, as a politician, he worked closely with community groups (though not as ardently as another community organizer turned politician, the late Senator Paul Wellstone). As a presidential candidate, he frequently refers to his community organizing, asking supporters to treat his campaign as a social movement in which he is just "an imperfect vessel of your hopes and dreams." David Moberg The Nation |
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Flowers for the Trashman —for Grace Claiborne Johnson (Lewis) |
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In Search of an African Identity / Feminism, Black Erotica, & Revolutionary Love Essays by Rudolph Lewis |
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Robert "Kaki" McQueen Baltimore's #1 Ragamuffin Artist & Musician by Rudolph Lewis |
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Pediatrician Eliseo Rosario Dreams Like Roberto Clemente Danny Torres Interviews Dr. Eliseo Rosario Clines Reflects on Clemente, Stargell, and the Team of Color |
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Worship of white supremacy, fundamentalism, and capitalism -- It isn't very likely that Americans will get smarter anytime soon. Politicians know that appealing to their worst instincts is usually a winning formula. The corporate run media is not only unhelpful in enlightening the public but is in fact complicit in keeping them in the dark. The New York Times is once again leading the charge in helping the Bush administration push bogus information. This time around Iran is the bogeyman maligned by unnamed sources. It is déjà vu all over again. Belief in American superiority and particularly the superiority of white people, will always win the day and will always keep the nation ignorant. It isn't surprising that politicians evoke the name of Davy Crockett and peddle nonsense about the sun rotating around the earth. After all, leaders can only be a reflection of the people they serve. --Margaret Kimberley, “Freedom Rider: America the Stupid.” |
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Anna Schmidt, An Examination of the Authenticity of Phillis Wheatley
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Stereotypes and Degradation—"I respect the First Amendment, but rights without responsibility is anarchy, and that's much of what we have now," he said. "It's time for responsible people to stand up and accept responsibility." Despite its focus on Hip-Hop, other media will be face scrutiny at the hearing, which is being held by the subcommittee. "I want to engage not just the music industry but the entertainment industry at large to be part of a solution," said Rush. Witnesses for the hearing include Philippe Dauman of Viacom, Doug Morris of Universal Music Group and Edgar Bronfman Jr. of Warner Music Group. "I want to talk to executives at these conglomerates who've never taken a public position on what they produce," said Rush, who added that it was "surprisingly very difficult to get them to commit to appearing." Despite the struggle to get leaders and artists to commit to the hearing, Rush has received confirmation from one artist, Percy "Master P" Miller. The rap mogul, who started out as a gangsta rapper, has recently made news for his new focus on creating positive images and message in his music. Chris Richburg. Congress To Hold Hearings On Hip-Hop Lyrics. All Hip Hop |
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Time To Impeach Bush / Hillary Turns on the Demo Light / A Case for Condoleezza Rice / Hunger for a Black President / Clinton Obama Ticket in 08 |
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Kam Williams Interviews Colin Roach Author of Light the Flambeau & Son of Poet Eric Roach |
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A Looming Intra-Black Political Civil War? In today's social-political environment, with hostile, outside forces actively recruiting Black "spokespersons" and financing Black "role models," the Jim Crow-era Black worldview is not just obsolete—it is a formula for disaster. The contradiction between the two opposing currents—the Black progressive struggle to transform society vs. celebration of individual Black advancement within the existing framework—became dramatically apparent with the advent of Barack Obama's stealth corporate presidential candidacy. The tragedy also unfolds in the ranks of the Congressional Black Caucus, which in less than a decade has been neutered as an institution for social change by relentless corporate penetration. . . . Our correspondent, who shall remain anonymous, wrote: "I have had uncomfortable feelings at these meetings seeing large photographs on display of Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice as icons alongside those of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. I wondered to myself, Is this the NAACP that W.E.B Du Bois envisioned? Are all African-Americans supposed to admire the servants of blood-soaked imperialism alongside the peacemakers, seeing them as African-Americans of achievement? At this year's...meeting, I heard the African-American president of McDonald's (a company which produces poison for food) speak and be honored. I also heard one of the pastors of our AME church laud BP Amoco for its contributions to NAACP programs. BP Amoco is known to me as a party just as guilty of launching our war of aggression against Iraq as are George Bush and Dick Cheney." Glen Ford, “Letters Column.” Black Agenda Report |
| The Child of a Poet Murdered & Celebrated: Baraka's Daughter Killed Home Going Celebration Poems of Remembrance #1 #4 |
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Tram Nguyen Interviews Brima Conteh |
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Ban Firearms in South Africa / Tin Mining in the Congo War, Murder, Rape . . . All for Your Cell Phone By Stan Cox, AlterNet Yambo Ouologuem, author of Bound to Violence |
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Socialist Joy in the Writing of Langston Hughes by Jonathan Scott
The Niggerization of Palestine By Jonathan Scott What do you call a Black man with a PhD? Nigger. —Malcolm X |
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Jon Scott:
The Staying Power of Rap
Remembering to Not Forget |
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By Alexandria C. Lynch, MS III
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For the Love of Rebecca The Murder of Charlie Poole by the Black Legion By Mary Teresa Coulter
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An excerpt by Crystal Wilkinson
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A Hurricane for Irene A Story by Jessie Calliste / Short Stories |
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Diary of Zena el-Khalil: Lebanese Artist Living in Beirut Petitiononline / Army Chief Brig. Gen. Dan Halutz warned that "nothing is safe" in Lebanon. |
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A short story by Onyeka Nwelue Interview with Onyeka Nwelue Onyeka Nwelue Interviews Jude Dibia |
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Thoughtful Notes By G. David Schwartz:
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Fighting the Sickle Cell Anemia Stigma By J.R. Perry III Cure every cell—a sickle cell support group / Related file: Anarcha's Story |
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The Cultural Politics of Paul Robeson and Richard Wright Theorizing the African Diaspora By Floyd W. Hayes, III |
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Kam Williams Interviews Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs Who Starred as Freddie “Boom-Boom” Washington in TV-series Welcome Back, Kotter |
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Nagin's Reelection as Mayor of New Orleans Anatomy of a Civil Rights Protest By Mtangulizi Sanyika Katrina New Orleans Flood Index Gulf Coast Evacuees Have the Right to Return
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The Roots and Influences of Modern Urban Rituals By Mwalim*7) |
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Articles by Charles Chea Graffiti
Takeover, Bombing, & Racism |
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The mayor’s race is about the next four generations for black folks, not simply the next four years By J.B. Borders |
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When Music is a Poet's Tool: Tame turmoil. Transform all the bile-flavored anger and anxiety into words. Vent. Review the outburst to discover the pattern the turmoil never told you it had. Reshape the pattern into stanzas or lyrics, dramatic monologues, and narratives. Polish. Repolish. Publish. There are times when poems must respond to natural disasters and subsequent pandemics to the reflux acid of war, racism, genocide. At those times, it is only normal for poets to let the turmoil roll. If you want a poem rather than the droppings of a vatic pigeon, you must dance in a music that takes you to the other side of natural disaster and national tragedy. Jerry Ward, Jr., "The Katrina Papers," DrumVoices, Spring-Summer-Fall 2006 |
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Why I Support the Latino Demonstrators By Amin Sharif Dark Child of the Fourth World Afro-America & The Fourth World The Fourth World: In the Belly of the Beast |
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Everybody Hates Social Welfare By Rodney D. Foxworth, Jr. |
