May 18 , East St. Louis: “DA-DUM-DUN”: Festival Honoring Miles Davis , Henry Dumas , Katherine Dunham An annual festival in honor of thr...

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The Journal of Pan African Studies Call for Poetry All original, previously unpublished poetry will be accepted; however they must be relev...

December 2010 edition of The Journal of Pan African Studies (JPAS) The Journal of Pan African Studies is pleased to announce a ...

Haiti’s Founding Document Found in London By DAMIEN CAVE Published: March 31, 2010 New York Times There is no prouder moment in Haiti ’s his...

People I know –a man called Slim Rodney D. Coates Some people will take you out for little more than a bottle of Ripple or a pac...

The Life Story of Henry Ramsey, Jr. An Autobiography; Hardscratch Press 2008 “Henry Ramsey's open-ended conversation with his descendant...

Black Revolutionary Action Movement The materials in this collection--which center mainly, but not solely, on the political activities and l...

Book Review: We Will Return In the Whirlwind Black Radical Organizations 1960 – 1975 By Muhammad Ahmad (Maxwell Stanford Jr.). (Chicago: Cha...

Street Spirits (For Marvin X) under a red sky you have roamed the streets of San Francisco rapping about homeless blues in your poetry in yo...

The Parable of the Fire Parable of the Fire There was a pile of weeds in the backyard. They were an eyesore to the neighborhood. People comp...

Black Male Suicide Why are so many young men killing themselves? By: Henrie Treadwell Posted: September 15, 2008 Not long ago, suicide and ...

Dr. Nathan Hare Replies to Dr. Rodney Coates : Rodney, I see, looking back on the Inbox that you addressed me (“Nate”) in what looks like yo...

Brown’s records are “under lock and key” at the University of Southern California A task force was created in 2007 to investigate the disap...

marvin x a silent warrior mavin x a silent warrior ? you talkin bout mavrin x a silent warrior! he stands in front of rite aid dr...

News Updates: UC Berkeley Students Protest UCSD Racist Acts By Riya Bhattacharjee Monday March 01, 2010 Contributed photo Black students at ...

OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA(THE-RE-MIX) “What About We People Who Are Darker Than Blue?” By Norman (Otis) Richmond As this...

By What Right? By what right do we sport and play while our guns and bombs destroy the world--since America is the number one arms merchant ...