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Monday, March 11, 2013

North American Africans on Hugo Chavez



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Black Left Unity Network
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Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
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Black Agenda Report
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Pan African News
http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/2013/03/hugo-chavez-death-of-true-hero.html

The Griot
http://thegrio.com/2013/03/06/why-black-liberals-like-harry-belafonte-and-danny-glover-loved-hugo-chavez/

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Jesse Jackson
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/08/jesse-jackson-compares-hugo-chavez-americas-first-15-presidents-heres-his-rationale/

Latin American and Caribbean Community Center
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/03/201336151053865910.html

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Black American Web
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Trinidad
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Jamaica
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/A-faithful-and-avowed-friend-of-Jamaica_13787560

Pan African Journal
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Davey D
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Nigerian Labor Congress
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Sunday, March 10, 2013

Dr. Nathan Hare on the Hare Papers



Marvin X, Dr. Julia Hare, Dr. Nathan Hare and Attorney Amira Jackmon, Senior Agent of the Community Archives Project



Marvin,

Looks great so far as it went. What you have in those boxes, as you know, is not the whole or the best of what’s in the apartment, let alone the entire stash.

FYI. I have been written about with Martin Luther King and Floyd McKissick in the official FBI Newsletter, May 23, 1967,  at the end of co-leading the campus uprising at Howard toward a black university relevant to the black community and its needs in the face of an announcement in 1966 to make it “Sixty Percent White by 1970) anticipating the riots that came that summer.  

I have published in Newsweek (debating RoyWilkins, NAACP), Massachusetts Review, the London times, Social Forces, Social Education, Saturday Review, Saturday Evening Post, U. S. News and World Report, Esquire’s “Thirteen Top Black Scholars.” Negro History Bulletin, Journal of Negro Education, Graduate Journal, Liberal Education, ad infinitum, the periodical Black Male/Female Relationships, The Black Think Tank.

Julia was named by the Junior Chamber of Commerce in 1966 as the “Outstanding Young Educator” (35 and under) for every grade level for the whole of the District of Columbia’ public school system.  She also was included in Ebony’s “150 Most Influential African-Americans” circa 2008. Multiple times “Ten Most Influential African-Americans in the Bay Area” from City Flight Magazine. She and John Hope Franklin are among those who have been conducted into Tulsa’s Booker T. Washington Hall of Fame. Currently integrated but still rated as one of the top high schools in the country. Julia grew up playing piano and organ for the Mt. zion Baptist Church, which was bombed from the air, the only instance in American history. She also was university organist while still a student. She was also voted the Best Girl Dancer and Most Popular Girl at Langston.

I have won distinguished awards, including the highest given , lifetime achievement, from the National Association of Black Sociologists, and National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame, black psychologists, National Council for Black Studies (twice),  etc.

I was on the Steering Committee of the First and Third National Black Power Conferences. (Newark and Philadelphia, respectively). Also The First National Black United Front founded by a former student, Stokely Carmichael.

I was a distinguished visiting scholar at Stanford on the Sixties, Julia and I have been Distinguished Visiting Scholars at the University of Pennsylvania, Stillman (Alabama) and Lane (Tennesee).

I have keynoted the Fourth National Conference of Afroamerican Writers as well as the National Conference of Black studies. I was on the North America Zonal Committee of the Second  World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC), held in Lagos. I was an invited by the Organization of African Unity (OAU) as an observer at the First World Festival of Arts and Culture (Algiers).

I was a professional boxer in D.C. and Maryland (featured on the cover of Jet, in Ebony, Sepia, NET (National Educational Television). Made for TV Movie “Color Us Black).”

Julia aspired to be an actor later in life and had among her credits a  bit part with Jackie Gleason in “Mr. Billion. She was or is a member of SAG, AFTRA, and
Was for three years Director of Community Affairs for KSFO radio (Cowboy Gene Autry’ station) for ten years. Was on the air in a morning drive in dialogue with Don Sherwood. She was also a Talk Show host for three years at KGO Radio, the ABC Station.

I did two Ph.D. theses.  My master’s thesis, ”A Study of the Professional Boxer” (1957) anticipated sports sociology and sports psychology. Translated in several languages and included in several anthologies, including Abraham Chapman’s, Mentor Book, “New Black Voices” (featured on the cover).

We lived through segregation in the South until the 1960s. I served in the U.S. Army, though a resister in my way before it was popular. The only person I know who got drafted and got the orders canceled. Also, when I saw proof of service in the early 1980s the Army had no record of ever discharging me. I achieved Sharpshooter ranking without completing the shooting involved.

We will come across documentation of such as the above in the final gathering of the archives.

For your personal information, be advised that I fully intend to complete the autobiography myself (hence “auto”) before I croak. For I have miles to go before I sleep, despite the fact that there are several things that might be good enough to take me out.  One month from now, on Paul Robeson’s birthday, I will be 80.  If I manage to finish the autobiography, you would then be encouraged to do a biography, as materials and notes would be left over from the autobiography, aside from all the gossip, lies and scuttlebutt you might gather as well.

Nathan

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Amiri Baraka and Marvin X at Univ. of Penn this week


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Amiri Baraka is writer in residence at University of Penn, Thursday, March 14; on Saturday, March 16, Marvin X will participate in the Univ. of Penn's Black Love Lives Conference. Both are founders of the Black Arts Movement. Above photo is from their appearance at the Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2009.
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Friday, March 8, 2013

82 year old Black Woman pulled off train for singing spirituals

When will we allow common sense to prevail and not rules! I am ashamed to live in a country where we can't respect people, if for nothing else because of their age. Did the singing and tapping disturb passengers that much that the woman had to be pulled off the train, risking injury and possible death to the elderly passenger?


We need to teach common sense approaches to handling all situations. Perhaps the other passengers who were being disturbed could have gotten up and moved to other sections of the train. I hate to know that we have come to a day and age when a woman singing spirituals is considered a disturbance. The disturbance is the security guard who would have never handled anyone of his own ethnic group with such insensitivity, discourtesy and disrespect. It is just further proof that at no matter what age a person is, if the individual is black, he/she is not respected. Some people should be taken off of the train because they smell bad, but passengers have to deal with it until they get off of their stops. Sometimes groups of people talk loud, and passengers have to deal with it until the rowdy/loud passengers get off. Imagine if the train was crowded. Are you telling me that that one elderly lady was louder than 50 passengers during rush hour on the train? Come on, let's use some common sense. If the guard ultimately thought that the best decision was to remove the passenger, there is a much gentler way to remove someone rather than pulling her off of the train the way he did.  It was certainly not an escort!

 Ms. Emma’s tapping on the bottle was just one way to keep her own calm, peace and sanity traveling through this chaotic world of ours.  Come on America, let's get our act together.

 I recommend some type of mandatory training for all security personnel responsible for holding municipal positions that would teach common sense approaches to unusual situations and circumstances.

Sincerely,


Nefertitti Jackmon
 

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Subject: Oh Hell Naw!!! 82-Year-Old Black Woman Dragged from Miami Train and Thrown to Ground by Security for Singing Spirituals !

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"Oh Hell Naw!!!" 
82-Year-Old Black Woman Dragged from Miami Train and Thrown to Ground by Security for Singing Spirituals! 
Miami Transit Agency says she needed permit to sing and she was breaking the rules!
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By Ashely Jennings
Mar 7, 2013 

The family of an elderly Florida woman is furious that she was hauled off a commuter train because she was singing spirituals and are considering  legal action.

The family of Emma Anderson, 82, claim she was injured by a Metro-Dade Transit security guard who they said roughly yanked her from a train seat and escorted her off the train on Feb. 20.

Anderson of Miami-Dade, was singing spiritual hymns from her train seat when a security guard asked her to stop. The security guard told Anderson that she was being disruptive.

"I was beating my little beads with the bottle and I was singing a song, and he came up to me and said, 'Ma'am, you're making too much noise,'" Anderson told ABC News affiliate WPLG.

A passenger started recording Anderson and the guard's interaction on his cell phone. The video shows Anderson being forcibly removed from the train.

"By what we saw on the footage, she was dragged off the train. She wasn't escorted," Anderson's  son, Kenny Anderson, 42, told ABC News. "She was just singing to the Lord, preaching to the Lord, and he grabbed her bag and drug her off the train."

Kenny says the security guard pulled the bag his mother was holding so hard that she fell backwards and hurt herself.

"We took her to the hospital and they took X-rays. Doctors say she has a bruised hip and shoulder," Anderson said.

One of the witnesses is heard on tape demanding the name of the security guard.

A spokesperson for Miami-Dade Transit told WPLG in a statement, "The elderly passenger, Ms. Anderson, who was escorted from a Metrorail train, was initially asked by a security guard to refrain from singing loudly and playing an instrument while on the train. She refused to comply."

The spokesperson said singing, dancing or playing an instrument are prohibited without permit.

"Ms. Anderson's singing was causing a disturbance to other passengers and impeding important train announcements from being heard. We regret that Ms. Anderson had to eventually be escorted out, but regardless of age, all passengers need to abide by the rules associated with using transit," the statement said.

The Anderson family said they have hired an attorney and plan to pursue legal action for their mother's injuries.
  
Please email Miami Mayor Carlos A. Gimenez at Mayor@miamidade.gov or call him at 305-375-5071. Please email Miami-Dade County Board Chairwoman Rebeca Sosa at district6@miamidade.gov or call her at 305-375-5696. 
Please tell them to fire Transit Director Ysela Llort, Chief of Safety and Security Eric Murtan, Miami Transit Spokesperson Karla Damian and the security contractor 50 State.
 
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A Poem for Black Love Lives


We're In Love, but You Don't Know Me
You don't know me
you had a chance to know me
before we made love
you had a chance to know my mind
understand my fears
learn about issues
help me heal some things
but you wanted to make love
so you don't know me
we made love
but you don't know me
don't have a clue
think I'm a good d
or some good tight p
but you don't know me
and never will now
because you wanted to make love
you wanted to get a nut
we didn't even talk much
a little bit leading up to sex
I went along
I was horny too
but you don't know me
and I don't know you
now we never will
we blew it forever
because we made love
too fast too quick too soon
now you think you own me
I can't breathe
can't talk on the phone to friends
because we made love
because I gave you some d
you gave me some p
now I'm no longer human
I'm your love slave you my slave
we're in love
but you don't know me
we gonna get married
but you don't know me
we're gonna have children
but you don't know me
you're gonna beat my ass
but you don't know me
you're going to jail
but you don't know me
we're getting a divorce
but you don't know me
now we're friends
"Just Friends" Charlie Parker tune
But you don't know me
and never will. 

--Marvin X

from Sweet Tea, Dirty Rice Poems by Marvin X, Black Bird Press, Berkeley, 2013.
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Marvin X speaks, writes, Order his books for your library






"They" say he's a dope fiend, alcoholic who loves ho's, yet he's still one of the most prolific writers in America. You who are clean and sober need to get a little funky so you too can be productive and prolific like Marvin.








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