Practical Nguzo Saba: Why Kwanzaa should be 24/7/365
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Practical Nguzo Saba: Why Kwanzaa should be 24/7/365
Posted on 29 December 2010.
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Kwanzaa Connection: What’s going on in your city?
Posted on 26 December 2010.
Umoja (Unity): to strive for and maintain unity amongst the family, community, nation and the Diaspora. Black Power Media will be back in Full effect on January 1st 2011.
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Mumia Rally in Philly
Posted on 10 November 2010.
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Sights and sounds from the November 9th hearing and rally for Mumia Abu-Jamal in Philadelphia, PA.
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Africa and Pan-Africanism in this Hemisphere: Fighting Neo-Colonialism, Racism, Class, and Gender Oppression
Posted on 28 October 2010.
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As we continue to press issues raised during this past summer’s U.S. Social Forum in Detroit, Netfa Freeman of Washington, D.C.’s Social Action and Leadership School for Activists, offers the following: ‘Africa and Pan-Africanism in this Hemisphere: Fighting Neo-Colonialism, Racism, Class, and Gender Oppression.’ The panel looked at the role of revolutionary pan-Africanism in confronting imperialism and nation/class/gender oppression in this hemisphere, with emphasis on the Haitian Revolution, the Cuban Revolution and the attacks on African peoples in the Americas.
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Development with identity: 10 Questions with Sidney Francis
Posted on 22 October 2010.
Sidney Francis is the President of CABO, The Central American Black Organization (In Spanish, Organización Negra Centroamericana o ONECA), an organization that works to organize Afrikans in the region on the basis of rediscovering African cultural heritage and inter-group solidarity tactics designed to create an environment where Afrikan people are empowering Afrikan people. He sits down with Black Power Media to introduce CABO to our readers and to offers some insight into how we can build with each regionally.
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Defining our Reality & Continuing the Legacy: Fred Hampton Jr.
Posted on 17 October 2010.
-Revolutionary son from a revolutionary lineage, Chairman of the P.O.C.C. Fred Hampton Jr. Stops through Tubman City as apart of “The Legacy Tour” lecture series…”Thats one thing I respect so much about the Black Panther Party” says Hampton, “They fought on their own terms…” Do you?- Continue Reading
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The Enduring Myth of Black “Buying Power” Part 1
Posted on 05 October 2010.
From www.voxunion.com
-Jared Ball
What is there to say when gaps between demonstrable reality and people’s perceptions are as wide as the ever-widening gaps in wealth? 2010 begins with another promotional round of the popular mythology of Black “buying power.” But this economic Easter Bunny/Tooth Fairy comes at great material consequence. This “great disconnect between our people’s wishful mis-perceptions… and the objective reality that actually shapes our lives,” as Glen Ford has said recently, is in part due to misinformation and the conclusions reached by so many prominent thinkers in our world. Precisely at a time when Black unemployment is worsening and predicted to reach even further epidemic levels we also hear of research which suggests that Black Americans think their lot is actually improving. Continue Reading
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