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  Did you know that the young brothers in the Bronx, New York started rap? At that time, rap was “edutainment,” because the rappers were putting messages in the rap, and young Black people were moving, grooving, and learning. Public Enemy, KRS-1, Big Daddy Kane, all of them teaching, see? I read recently, they had a meeting in California, in 1970—record executives and some strange men were in the meeting. It was a secret meeting. And what was discussed in the meeting was that these men that were not record executives, they were now privatizing prisons… Prisons are, now, on the stock market. People don’t buy stock in prisons if you don’t expect high rates of occupancy. Who do you think is going to fill the prisons? Well, in that meeting they were deciding in California to change rap from conscious rap to gangsta rap, and then feeding filth and degenerate lifestyles from the rap artists. Once they changed the nature of rap to gangsta rap, they started glorifying the gun, glorifying d...

  Jesus said, “Bless them that curse you.” (Now, you try it sometime, see how difficult that is.) He said, “Pray for those who despitefully use you.” (Now, you know you don’t do that! Anybody comes up using you, you will “pray” for them alright, that something like Hurricane Sandy will get them!) He said, “Love them that hate you.” Jesus was a master teacher, but he was not from the colleges and universities of his day. Isn’t that something? So, while you are getting your letters, “B.S.,” “B.A.,” “M.S.,” “M.A.,” “J.D.,” “Ph.D.,” “D.D.”—these are letters. And naturally, when somebody comes, that’s what they present, “Oh yes, this is So-and-So and So-and-So. He has his B.S. degree; he matriculated from Tennessee State University,” as though that means he should be listened to. But Jesus didn’t have none of that! The scripture teaches that they asked. “How come this man having not letters is learned?” Because when you are taught of God, that which you call “wisdom” looks like foolishn...

  Web Pic via Albi clearly highlighted that a war had taken place in Cameroon, during which the colonial authorities and the French army carried out multiple forms of repressive violence.  War … continued beyond 1960 with France’s support for actions carried out by the independent Cameroonian authorities. It is up to me today to assume the role and responsibility of France in these events. Cameroon had been a German colony until World War I, when it was split between France and Britain, with the French-controlled area gaining independence in 1960 and the southern British Cameroons joining a year later.

  The skulls belonging to Zimbabwean rebel chiefs, including spiritual leaders Mbuya Nehanda and Sekuru Kaguvi, who led the revolt known as the First Chimurenga between 1896 and 1897, were taken to Britain as war trophies. At least 11 are believed to be held at the Natural History Museum in London, two at the University of Cambridge’s Duckworth Laboratory, and others at an unspecified museum in Switzerland. Zimbabwe, then Southern Rhodesia, was a British colony from 1923 until independence in 1980, marked by land seizures, forced labor, and brutal crackdowns on resistance, including massacres during the First Chimurenga. The country now marks Heroes Day each August to honor those who fought to end colonial rule.

  World leaders attend the second day of the G20 Summit at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Nov. 19, 2024. Photo:  South Africa is scheduled to host the G20 Heads of Government Summit in Johannesburg in 2025. This will be the first time the G20 summit will be held on the continent of Africa. According to the World Economic Forum, the G20 “consists of 19 countries and two regional bodies. The current members are Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States, plus the African Union and European Union. In June, the U.S. pulled out of the United Nations Conference for Development, aimed at combating poverty. The debt crisis in Africa and in many countries across the Global South is a product of a dysfunctional international monetary and financial system. On the other hand, exorbitant interest rates increase the...

  HAVE NO FEAR FOR THE FUTURE: THE FUTURE IS OURS! If you’re going to bring your generals and your army into Chicago to kill our “young savages,” I’m sending this book to the White House!   Before  you come, read it!  Give it to General “Mad Dog” Mattis, and read it before you come.  Now if I frighten you, don’t wet your pants,  hold on to your pants.   They need to be frightened, not you.  That’s why this subject was,  “HAVE NO FEAR FOR THE FUTURE: THE FUTURE IS OURS!”   I’m going to prove that. This book highlights the chemical experiment, and points out the CIA and who did it.  …   What we find the truth of, we are ready to die on it.  And if you know the truth and won’t tell it, what kind of  person  are you?   … 

  The economy is getting weaker. Consumer confidence is down. Unemployment is up. Federal budget deficits are rising to record levels.   The state of the union is, in a word, “dismal.” Two Nobel Peace Prize winners–former South African President Nelson Mandela and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter–criticized the Bush approach as shortsighted at best, or as arrogant, or even racially motivated. What I am condemning is that one power with a president who has no foresight and cannot think properly is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust n ot made a case for a preemptive military strike against Iraq. The spectacle of the United States, armed with its weapons of mass destruction, acting without Security Council authority to invade a country in the heartland of Arabia and, if necessary, use of weapons of mass destruction to win that battle, is something that will so deeply violate any notion of fairness in this world that I strongly suspect it could set loose forces tha...

  Ms. Burks said that she believed she was teaching her 19-year-old son, Northur, a lesson by making him wait for an extended period of time before she posted his bail–she told him as much in a phone call. However, she had no idea the next call she would receive would change her life forever: her eldest son was dead resulting from asphyxiation. Northur did not kill himself After three days in a cell, Ms. Burks posted her son’s bail; satisfied he had learned an important lesson about responsibility.   Less than 48 hours later, he was dead. The local media has covered this case and basically they are getting tired of the mother calling them about this. The family doesn’t want just a civil suit, they want criminal charges filed. This isn’t the ’50s where they could get away with it. Ms. Burks has vowed to turn her pain into power. Northur was a happy kid who was just happy to be driving his first car

  More than 300,000 workers newly unemployed in November will spend the holidays knowing that they won’t have access to federal jobless benefits. Even as the Bush administration reshuffles its economic team today, it will not admit that long-term unemployment is a serious threat to the sputtering economy. The program will expire three days after Christmas, immediately stripping benefits from more than 833,000 workers with thousands to follow. Those unemployed more than six months increased again this month, to 1.734 million people, up from 1.333 in March. The leadership of the House of Representatives and the president have turned a blind eye, not just to those families hardest hit by the recession, but also to decades of proven economic policy. When unemployment benefits expire on Dec. 28, so will the flow of new money. When workers spend unemployment dollars on basic goods, the money ripples through the economy creating new business. National studies have shown that each $1 of un...

The Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, has initiated a program aimed at preparing minority college students to become successful entrepreneurs. The MBDA recently hosted an Emerging Business Leaders Summit during their Minority Enterprise Development Week in Washington, D.C. Ronald N. Langston, MBDA’s national director, says, “Economic improvements in the African American community can be accelerated with planning and collaborative efforts from business and private sectors. The MBDA is committed to advancing initiatives for economic security by providing training and mentoring for tomorrow’s leaders.”