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Twenty-eight years ago, in a highly disputed trial, an all-White jury convicted former Black Panther Assata Shakur of the murder of a New Jersey state trooper. In 1979, while serving a life sentence, she escaped from prison and eventually resurfaced in Cuba, where she was granted asylum and has lived ever since. But the U.S. government has continued to pursue Shakur, regularly increasing the bounty on her head and classifying her as a “domestic terrorist.” Last May the Justice Department issued an unprecedented $1,000,000 bounty for the return of Assata Shakur, 58, who continues to maintain her innocence. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/bizzareweird/43051-assata-shakur-former-black-panther-speaks-from-exile-in-cubaTwenty-eight years ago, in a highly disputed trial, an all-White jury convicted former... more
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Malcolm X appears on a television show in Chicago called City Desk on March 17, 1963. Malcolm explains why his last name is X. Malcolm also gives a brief black history lesson on many things ranging from slave names to education.
http://nothingtotweetabout.com/Maclolm_X_Name_Change.phpMalcolm X appears on a television show in Chicago called City Desk on March 17, 1963.... more
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New ruling coming down Tuesday Jan 19th 2010 for Mumia Abu Jamal.
11/12/09 - Activists travel to DC demanding justice in the case against Mumia Abu Jamal. "Still Here" Harlem Productions documents the journey from NYC. The Free Mumia Abu Jamal Coalition, Amnesty International, NAACP, and other concerned activists like Gloria Ruback gather to deliver thousands of letters from all over the world in support of Mumia Abu Jamal and hopes of his release. They call on Eric Holder of the Justice Department to review Jamal's case. for more info visit freemumia.com...video produced by "Still Here" Harlem Productions...allthingsharlem.comNew ruling coming down Tuesday Jan 19th 2010 for Mumia Abu Jamal.
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A year ago this week, Barack Obama stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to take the presidential oath of office.
That moment was described throughout the media as the climax of a journey that began 46 years earlier, at the other end of the National Mall, when Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
But Peniel Joseph, a historian at Tufts University, says not enough attention has been paid to the other main line of succession in African-American leadership — the one that leads from Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael and the black power movement.
"The connection between black power and Barack Obama doesn't fit a neat and simplistic national narrative about the success and evolution of the civil rights struggle," Joseph tells NPR's Guy Raz.
In his latest book, Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama, Joseph argues that the black nationalists have been too easily dismissed as a formative force.
"Black power is usually characterized as a movement of gun-toting militants who practice politics without portfolio," he says, "and drag down a more promising movement for social justice, the civil rights movement."
That image, Joseph says, forced President Obama to distance himself from those roots.
"The president and the popular media don't often look at the quieter side of black power, the pragmatic side," he says, pointing out that Malcolm X and Carmichael both started their public careers as community organizers — a path that Obama took 30 years later.
"Malcolm X is the quintessential, self-made African-American political activist," Joseph says.
Author Peniel Joseph. Courtesy Basic Books
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"The president and the popular media don't often look at the quieter side of black power," author Peniel Joseph says.
Author Peniel Joseph. Courtesy Basic Books
Courtesy Basic Books
"The president and the popular media don't often look at the quieter side of black power," author Peniel Joseph says.
After a troubled childhood and his father's death at the hands of a lynch mob, Malcolm X spent six years in prison. He emerged in 1952 as a member of the Nation of Islam and quickly grew into a national spokesman for the more militant wing of the civil rights movement.
Malcolm X was gunned down in 1965, a few years after leaving the Nation of Islam. A year later, Stokely Carmichael coined the term "black power," and the group of activists he created was rechristened the Black Panthers.
So how would those two leaders have viewed the country's first African-American president?
"They would have looked at this as a mixed blessing," Joseph says. "On the one hand, Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael would have been impressed by Obama's self-determination. … At the same time, both would have criticized the president for a reluctance to talk about racial matters and for a reluctance to really use the presidency as a bully pulpit" to address specific African-American issues.
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122569310A year ago this week, Barack Obama stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to take the... more
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You have the right as an individual to own a gun and defend yourself.
Prohibition didn't stop liquor use; the drug laws can't stop drug use. Making gun ownership illegal will not stop gun ownership.
The primary victim of these misguided efforts is the honest citizen whose civil rights are trampled as frustrated legislators and police tighten the screws.
Banning guns will make guns more expensive and give organized crime a great opportunity to make profits in a new black market for weapons. Street violence will increase in new turf wars. Criminals will not give up their guns. But, many law abiding citizens will, leaving them defenseless against armed bandits.
Rather than banning guns, the politicians and the police should encourage gun ownership, as well as education and training programs. A responsible, well-armed and trained citizenry is the best protection against domestic crime and the threat of foreign invasion. America's founders knew that. It is still true today.You have the right as an individual to own a gun and defend yourself.
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Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (also known as Mr Eko from "Lost"), has revealed in an interview to MTV at Comic Con that he is in talks with Marvel Comics to play The Black Panther for the big screen.
The Black Panther is created by Stan Lee and the character fought along Captain America, The Avengers and The Fantastic Four. Adewale will be seen in "G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra" this summer.Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (also known as Mr Eko from "Lost"), has revealed in... more
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The state of Pennsylvania has asked the US Supreme Court to review a lower court's decision to overturn the death sentence of former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted for the 1981 murder of a police officer, judicial sources said Monday.
The Supreme Court and Abu-Jamal's lawyer Robert Bryan confirmed Monday that the appeal was lodged in early October.
Since Abu-Jamal's conviction and death sentence, the case has become a focus for civil rights activists who contend racism was involved when he was found guilty by an overwhelmingly white jury for the 1981 shooting of Philadelphia policeman Daniel Faulkner.
Abu-Jamal's death sentence was overturned in March by a federal court in Philadelphia, which found that the jury in the case had been incorrectly instructed. The judges voted two-to-one to uphold his conviction, however.
On October 6 the Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Abu-Jamal that it hear arguments for holding a new trial in the murder case.
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(You're not gonna hear about this on the news, but you know that ain't nothing new... what the proverb say... "Until lions have historians, hunters will always be heroes.")
I was marching with the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) prior to The New Black Panther Party's (NBPP) participation this past Sunday at the African Parade in Harlem. Everything was going beautifully; it was well-organized, and alive with festivities rich in Pan African culture.
All the sudden, a brutal attack on several NBPP members was carried out by the NYPD.
Now, let me make this clear about the NYPD's purpose at the parade: Participants in the parade were in the middle of the street and the police are required to stay on the sidelines to keep audience out of the street, not run in the middle of the street and start beating people who are part of the parade.
Apparently, they had a different agenda as we were nearing the end of our march. An NYPD officer was literally stomping on a NBPP member's head while other members were trying to save him but ended up catching the similar fate while the NYPD simultaneously began knocking cameras down, forming a circular blockade around the beatings, doubling the latter block up again to prevent clear composed shots of the incident for witnesses to this atrocity.
Juxtaposed to this scene, a group of kids started dancing, shouting "Black Power", obviously not fully understanding that these human beings are unjustifiably receiving capital punishment for representing the continuing effort for Black empowerment at this parade. It dawned on me at that moment, that this brutal treatment is not abnormal for them (and I'm sure for many others) rather a joke to be danced around. It wasn't fully their fault; I can go on all day about the factors that lead to this mentality and I'm sure you can too but watching them carry on made me feel helpless, angry and determined to keep pushing at the same time...we are in a lot of trouble and incidents like this definitely calls for a mass movement to uproot. There were 20,000 people at the parade, marching peacefully, not effectively prepared to protect ourselves legally and physically from the NYPD's lashing out. With their guns ready, Billy clubs and combat boots, the NYPD threw some of the NBPP members in the police van. 20,000! I cannot stress enough the need to organize as a continuing process!
After the police took off with the publically victimized NBPP members, the remaining NBPP members along with the MXGM headed straight for the nearest precinct to see about the members' welfare (and in case you're wondering, the parade continued, while the police were all over the place looking for more "work" and yes, they brought out the dogs too; it was chaotic but apparently not "abnormal" for others, as more chaos ensued).
The NBPP lined in front of the precinct as we waited on the side. Yes, 20,000 people were there but only a handful of us and the remaining NBPP were concerned about this issue enough to walk away from the festivities and silently post in front of the 32nd precinct.
Alarmingly, we encountered two passersby who wanted to put their two cents(less) in saying," Ya'll wilding out yo, what? This ain't no Malcolm X movie, ya'll lining up like this is the movie or somethin', ain't no cameras out here son, ya'll wilding out."
So if you are in NY this Friday and can free yourself briefly from your morning responsibilities, please come and "wild out" in concern for these young political prisoners at 100 Centre st, Part F, Manhatten/ 9 a.m. These are hard times not just for us as a people but for this country as a whole. This country is reaping what it has sown; we must persistently build, edify, (re)define and strengthen our support for one another en route for liberation on all fronts.
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B.L.A. = Black Liberation Army, an off-shoot-of-sorts from the Black Panther Party (some would say fashioned after the political ideology of Eldridge Cleaver, who publicly disagreed with Huey Newton and Kwame Ture about armed struggle as a viable tactic in the U.S.) that committed themselves to "take up arms for the liberation and self-determination of black people in the United States."
(FTP Movement) On April 2, 1969, Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Sundiata Acoli, Afeni Shakur and 18 others were accused of plotting to blow up subways, department stores, police stations and the New York Botanical Gardens, as part of The Panther 21 Case. On May 13, 1971, after a legal process that took two years and a trial that lasted eight months--the longest criminal prosecution in New York history--the jurors took only 56 minutes to acquit the defendants of all charges.
On May 19, 1971, six days after The Panther 21 acquittal - two New York City police officers were wounded in a barrage of machine gunfire while posted outside the home of the Manhattan district attorney, Frank Hogan. New York Panther Leader Dhoruba Bin Wahad was charged and sentenced to 25 years to life.
After a federal lawsuit against the FBI arguing that Wahad was a victim of cointelpro, the FBI released over 300,000 pages of classified cointelpro documents. The FBI records proved that prosecutors withheld critical evidence from the defense. It was proven that New York City police arrested and fabricated evidence against him. After 19 years into the sentence Dhoruba was released from prison.
INTERVIEW FOLLOWS AT THE LINKB.L.A. = Black Liberation Army, an off-shoot-of-sorts from the Black Panther Party... more
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Shepard Fairey gives a rare interview to discuss his new collection of tees with Digital Gravel, which features limited quantity re-issues of classic OBEY t-shirts in black & white. Shepard tells us the stories and ideas behind each of the designs and how they came to be, and you also get some cool glimpses of their new Studio One offices.Shepard Fairey gives a rare interview to discuss his new collection of tees with... more
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In this edition of GVEtv we take a look at past events spanning Americas history.
The past is a valuable asset in understanding the present and the future...
Food For Thought...What do you think? In this edition of GVEtv we take a look at past events spanning Americas history.... more
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