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Bring the Troops Home:  "A time comes when silence is betrayal."Beyond Vietnam A Time to Break Silence   (Martin Luther King)
Martin Luther King, "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam" / MLK: Mountaintop Speech (on War) Robert Byrd:I Weep For My Country: The Arrogance of Power / Deeper into the Mouth of Hell / John le Carr: The United States of America Has Gone Mad/
A More Perfect Union Barack Obama Speech on Race /12 Sonnets in Memory of Nathaniel Turner 
Go Tell Obama
Gazans Are Being Slaughtered by Israeli Bombardiers
400 Since Last Saturday, Nearly 2000 Wounded
January 1, 2009
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"All that you have done to our people is registered in our notebooks." Mahmoud Darwish, poet
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A Dialogic Forum on Cosmic Evil
as it Becomes Manifest in our Global Realities
Beltway Poetry Quarterly Museum Issue: Thirty-three poets write about museums, historical sites, and other public places
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Mona Lisa, Lakeside and the N-Word
Poem, Parent Letter, and Poets Response
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 Love One Another / The Ancestors Are Not Really Dead  /  Into His Arms  / On Learning of Walter Rodney's Death & Other Poems 

 
Opened Letters
The N Word, Go Tell Michele, and other Books
By Rudolph Lewis
Black Boys and Burning Midnight Oil  /  Dust Bowls and Wading Pools
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Governor says everyone must leave New Orleans / Eighteen Months After Katrina (Bill Quigley) /  Ending Poverty As We Know It: Guaranteeing a Right

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Stimulus Bill to Support Artists and Writers
Poems are just as important as cars
John Cavanagh, James Early, Barbara Ehrenreich, E. Ethelbert Miller, Marcus Raskin, Anas Shallal, and Melissa Tuckey


 Speeches & Sermons:   -- The American Dream is Under Siege at Home (Bill Clinton) / Time to Take Back the Country We Love (Hillary Clinton)
The America George Bush Has Left Us (Joe Biden) / We Must Listen and Lead by Example (John Kerry)  / Seize this Opportunity for Change (Al Gore)

Potential & Extraordinary Rendition
Poems by Ayodele Nzinga
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 In-Dependence from Bondage / The ABCs of Class Struggle /  Southern Needs  / Race Struggle is Class Struggle  /  Obama in Berlin (Grossman)
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Enough Of This Obasanjo Family, Please!
 By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye           
Remembering Eartha Kitt--17 January, 1927   25 December, 2008)--When I think of Eartha Kitt, I think of the complete artist. She was supremely accomplished, audacious, vocal, and creative. She remained beautiful and physically fit. When I was coming into manhood, how I fantasized about Ms. Kitt, whom I thought was just the most sensuous woman on the planet! Yet, as a Black American female, she spoke out of an experience of racist-induced pain, anguish, and despair that gnawed at her existence, which could produce a good amount of anger and clear thinking about the meaning of America.--Floyd Hayes                                 I Want to Be Evil  / Just An Old Fashioned Girl  / Santa Baby
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Music  Musicians / Living Legends / Robert Johnson and other Bluesmen /  One Mississippi, Two Mississippi: John Hurt. Fred McDowell
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Kam Williams Interviews Naturi Naughtonas
Starring as Lil Kim in  motion picture, Notorious,
 a bio-pic about the late rapper Notorious B.I.G

 Other Kam Williams Interviews:  Alicia Keys: The Secret Life of Bees    Cornel West
 
Regulators, Obfuscators, and Inflators
By Wilson J.  Moses
December 15, 2008
Thomas Friedman? Benjamin Franklin? Which do you Trust?
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Wilson Moses Files:      Republicans' Brilliant Cynical Coup   Reaganite Denounces Bush?  When the Master's Big House Burns / Just Another Fine Gentleman  
Business, Industry, and Education for Success / If this be Lynching . . . (As in Merrill-Lynch)  / Economic status of African Americans‏ /  Eliot Spitzer, . . Whistle Blowing  Joe the Plumber and Adam Smith  / Aquinas, Smith, Jefferson, Malthus, Marx, Keynes  / Responses to an American Speculator  //  The Economy 


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Dear Michelle Obama.
A Preview by Christine Vidal
of Go, Tell Michelle: African American Womens Letters to the New First Lady,
 Edited by Barbara Seals Nevergold  and Peggy Brooks-Bertram

Wilson's Obama Poem  / Responses to Barack Obama Winning The Presidency   /  Ralph Nader on Israel-Palestine, Barack Obama, John McCain

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 ChickenBones Best Book of 2008
The Katrina Papers: A Journal of Trauma and Recovery
Seeing Things from Inside the Circle
By Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
 Returning to the Sources  / Imprisonment in Holding Cells at Tulane and Broad  /  Literary New Orleans
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Kalamu ya Salaam: What Is Life: Reclaiming the Black Blues Self  and  360 A Revolution of Black Poets and  a moment in a mississippi juke joint


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 4 Closure Poems
By Mary E. Weems
 
 Mary E. Weems Table    An Unmistakable Shade of Red & The Obama Chronicles  /
What to Do with "Deception and Deviltry(Lewis) / Community Organizer vs. Corrupt Politician  (Bruce A. Dixon)
The Life and Legacy of Beautine Hubert DeCosta-Lee
Obituary by Miriam DeCosta-Willis
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 Poems by Glenis Redmond   Lifting   Mama's Magic   She   Mango   If I Aint African  Village Cry    
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A Season's Griot Poems
By Beverly Fields Burnette
Wilson's Obama Poem   Responses to Barack Obama Winning The Presidency
 
 
A Look inside Barakas Toilet
By Marvin X
Marvin X and Fresno State University
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Seat_at_the_Table--Memo from John D. Podesta, Co-chair--The Obama-Biden Transition Project--Revitalizing the Economy / Ending the War in Iraq  Providing Health Care for All / Protecting America / Renewing American Global Leadership. Change.gov
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The Wealth of the Poor
 By John Maxwell 
The People are the Change  / Investors in Limbo
in the hot house of black poetry
another furious flowering--Kalamu ya Salaam -- Part I / Part II  /  Part III  /  Part IV  / What Is Black Poetry
Politics of Knowledge
Black Policy Professionals in the Managerial Age 
By Floyd W. Hayes
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From Black Power to Africana Studies
Professor Hayes led UCLA's Black Student Union in its efforts to bring more black professors to the University
Poetry and National Security  (Lorenzo Thomas) /   Ancestors and Spirituality   / Love and Spirituality  (Marvin X)

ChickenBones Best Poetry Book of 2008
 
An Unmistakable Shade of Red & The Obama Chronicles New book of poems by Mary E.Weems
Mary E. Weems Table   Say it Loud: Poems about James Brown   Mary Weems on YouTube  Nomination
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Iraqi Journalist Hurls Shoes at Bush Press Conference
Security agents destroyed the shoes thrown at US President
 
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Why White America Perhaps Fears Michelle More Than Barack  / Obligation to Fight for the World as It Should Be (Michele Obama) 


Single Payer Health Care and the Auto Industry
By Bruce Dixon
End of the Road
 If the Auto Industry is Dead What does that Mean for Workers?
By Mark Brenner and Jane Slaughter


When a Job Disappears, So Does the Health Care-- December 7, 2008-- About 10.3 million Americans were unemployed in November, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The number of unemployed has increased by 2.8 million, or 36 percent, since January of this year, and by 4.3 million, or 71 percent, since January 2001. . . . . Some parts of the federal safety net are more responsive to economic distress. The number of people on food stamps set a record in September, with 31.6 million people receiving benefits, up by two million in one month. Nearly 4.4 million people are receiving unemployment insurance benefits, an increase of 60 percent in the past year. But more than half of unemployed workers are not receiving help because they do not qualify or have exhausted their benefits. About 1.7 million families receive cash under the main federal-state welfare program, little changed from a year earlier. Welfare serves about 4 of 10 eligible families and fewer than one in four poor children. NYTimes
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The 10 Best Black Books of 2008 (Non-Fiction)
By Kam Williams 
The 10 Best Black Books of 2007

 

Loud and Long Through the Valley

A poem by Andrea Barnwell
Poems  by Andrea Barnwell
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BoL -- Music Commentary by Mtume & Kalamu Drums, Trains, /Boogie Down Productions  /  Earth, Wind & Fire  / Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln 
 WAR  / "Body and Soul"  / Nina Simone /  Bob Marley /  Alice Coltrane /  James Brown  / Staple Singers  /  Police Brutality and Rappers 
Obama's Plan to Reform the CIA--Whos In Charge Here Anyway?--So Im interviewing a city hall insider about Ken Gibson. Why doesnt he control the police? Why isnt he bringing about reforms? And the brother tells me, Listen. When Kenny got into office he goes into the office of Dominic Spina, the Mafioso chief of police, the Black-hating, gun-toting, racist mf who we all wanted out of there. So before Kenny can open his mouth Spina takes out his gun and says, Look, congratulations on getting elected. So let me tell you how its gonna be. I am the general of an army. I am armed, my folks are armed. Do you have an army? Who will protect you? I tell you what, I will. Ill make sure somebody doesnt shoot you. In return, stay the fuck out of the Police Department business. As long as you know you work for me everything will be fine.
So, I imagine that is what Obamas conversations are like with the CIA and I know he is a tougher guy then Ken Gibson. But the structural challenge remains. I hope the best for Obama, I really do, I think he is an amazing version of himself and I strive to be as good at my strategy as he is at his. I strive to be as good an organizer as he is, as he out-organized McCain and Hillary and now my job is to both ally with and at times, try to out organize him. EricMann


 
From Orenthal to Obama: Who Has the Juice?
By E. Ethelbert Miller
E-Notes
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Seat_at_the_Table--Memo from John D. Podesta, Co-chair--The Obama-Biden Transition Project--Revitalizing the Economy / Ending the War in Iraq  Providing Health Care for All / Protecting America / Renewing American Global Leadership. Change.gov
Is Obama Backing Off a Crucial Pledge to Labor?--While running for office, Obama said he strongly backed the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), a long overdue labor law reform measure that should be part of his promised economic stimulus plan. However, when Obama introduced his top economic advisors on Nov. 25 and talked about steps to jolt the economy in January, EFCA was not part of the package. More disturbingly, his new chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, declined to say whether the White House would support EFCA when he was questioned about it at a Wall Street Journal-sponsored CEO Forum earlier in November. EFCA is vehemently opposed by big business because it would enable workers to unionize and negotiate first contracts more easily. The bill would amend the 73-year old National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) so that private sector employers have to bargain with their employees when a majority sign union authorization cards. Just as the NLRA did, as a centerpiece of the New Deal, EFCA would encourage collective bargaining to raise workers living standards and restore greater balance to labor-management relations. Beginning in the late 1930s, this federal labor policy helped create a vast new post-World War II American middle-class. Now, facing the worst financial crisis since the Depression, the Democrats have an unparalleled opportunity to link labor law reform to their broader economic recovery efforts. CounterPunch
 
Wounded in the House of a Friend
Poems by Sonia Sanchez
Reviewed by Marvin X
Sonia Sanchez: Poet & Educator  Sonia's Song  Sonia Sanchez and Ten Grandmothers
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Jerry Ward: Table & Bio THE KATRINA PAPERS    Trouble the Water The Katrina Papers  Making Peace with the Loss of Things    After the Hurricanes
Portrait of a Suicide/Death in Yellow Flooding      Dreamers Die Young; Dreams Die Eventually   NOLA SPEAKS   August 18-20, 2006: Returning to the Sources

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 Eighty Moods of Maya / Images and Homages: "Memwars"  
 Two Decades of Drumvoices Revue


Runoko Rashidi - African Libraries Project  Runoko Rashidi    / The Black Presence in the Bible: A Selected Bibliography / Delany and Blyden  Runoko in Budapest‏   / Niger and the National Museum    / Photos of Global African Presence  / Tribute to Ivan Van Sertima

Guns, Butter, and Obama--While the "official" 2009 U.S. military budget is $516 billion, that figure bears little resemblance to what this country actually spends. According to CDI, if one pulls together all the various threads that make up the defense spending tapestry - including Home Security, secret "black budget" items, military-related programs outside of the Defense Department, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and such outlays as veterans' benefits - the figure is around $862 billion for the current fiscal year. Johnson says spending is closer to $1.1 trillion. Even these figures are misleading, since it does not project future costs. According to Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, when the economic and social costs of the Iraq War are finally added up--including decades of treatment for veterans disabled by traumatic brain injury and post traumatic stress disorder--the final bill could reach $5 trillion. . . . A recent study by a Pentagon advisory group, the Defense Business Board, says that current defense spending is "not sustainable" and recommends scaling back or eliminating some big-ticket weapon systems. . . . While Obama has pledged to stress diplomacy over warfare, he has also promised to "maintain the most powerful military on the planet" and to increase the armed forces by some 90,000 soldiers. According to the Congressional Budget Office, that will cost at least $50 billionover five years. CommonDreams

The Passing of South African Folksinger Miriam Makeba  / The Passing of South African Writer Ezekiel Eskia Mphahlele


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Is A Sonnet More Than "Fourteen Lines"?
By Kalamu ya Salaam
Art for Life: My Story, My Song
By Kalamu ya Salaam
The State of HBCUs for Black Students & Faculty  /  Wole Soyina Kongi's Harvest  / African Hungarian--Klara Bassey  (Hakeem Babalola)
Rodney D. Foxworth, Jr.-- School Daze  A Depravity of Logic    A Nave Political Treatise  A Report on a Gathering  at Red Emma's   Urban Legends
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Bush Aids Detroit, but Hard Choices Wait for Obama--WASHINGTON -- The emergency bailout of General Motors and Chrysler announced by President Bush on Friday gives the companies a few months to get their businesses in order, but hands off to President-elect Barack Obama the difficult political task of ruling on their future.
The plan pumps $13.4 billion by mid-January into the companies from the fund that Congress authorized to rescue the financial industry. But the two companies have until March 31 to produce a plan for long-term profitability, including concessions from unions, creditors, suppliers and dealers. In February, another $4 billion will be available for G.M. if the rest of the $700 billion bailout package has been released.  NYTimes  The Economy 
From left, Richard Wagoner, chief executive of General Motors, Robert L. Nardelli, chief executive of Chrysler, Alan R. Mulally, chief executive of Ford, and Ron Gettelfinger, head of the United Automobile Workers, during a House hearing on Friday. 
Women Bringing New Strength to Unions (Dick Meister) / Don't Let Them Destroy Our Union (Frank Hammer)

Atlanta Constitution on Race Problem    Origin of Segregation     Intermarriage a No-No       Who Wants Integration      The Problem of Integration      The Racial Problem
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Bevjenai Obama Order Page
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New version of Obama--a 5x7 matted frame to 8 x 10 for tabletop display available for $40
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Beverly Jenai:Do Cowboys Dance?   That Which Binds   The Painting  My Friend Yictove
Choreographing the Folk: The Dance Stagings of Zora Neale Hurston (Review by Kam Williams)
 Court Order Can't Make Races Mix  /  The Black Joan of Arc

remembering professor lorenzo thomas  The Cruelty of Age  in Lorenzo Thomas' Tirade      Poetry and National Security  Lorenzo Thomas  Panel

"Arise and go, your faith has made you well"  (Luke 17 v. 15-19).  / / / Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is Gods will (I Thessalonians 5, v. 18).
How the markets really work (from 2007): How did these comedians see it coming when financial reporters did not? Brasschecktv
Black Labor--Samuel Gompers    John Mitchell    John L. Lewis
  Walter Reuther The Negro and Industrial Unionism  Labor Fights All Injustice 
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Holiday Cards
By Chuck Siler
Charles E. Siler Bio   Gnarlins '07   / Framework for African Students (Biblio)  / Chuck Siler Response to Katrina  
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Gook: John McCains Racism and Why It Matters / White Privilege ,White Entitlement, and the 2008 Election / Raising McCain (Lloyd Williams)


The State of Black-Asian Relations: Interrogating Black-Asian Coalition   Paul Robeson's Greetings to Bandung
Blues as Secularized Spirituals
Brief Thoughts on Cadillac Records
and the Power and Importance of McKinley Morganfield
By C. Liegh McInnis
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Philip Dray. Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen. Houghton Mifflin Company 2008 -- Philip Foner Review
In this grand and compelling new history of Reconstruction, Pulitzer Prize finalist Philip Dray shines a light on a little known group of men: the nation's first black members of Congress. These men played a critical role in pushing for much-needed reforms in the wake of a traumatic civil war, including public education for all children, equal rights, and protection from Klan violence. But they have been either neglected or maligned by most historians -- their "glorious failure" chalked up to corruption and "ill-preparedness."
In this beautifully written, magnificently researched book, Dray overturns that thinking. He draws on archival documents, newspaper coverage, and congressional records to show that men like P.B.S. Pinchback of Louisiana (who started out as a riverboat gambler), South Carolina's Robert Smalls (who hijacked a Confederate steamer and delivered it to Union troops), and Robert Brown Elliott (who bested the former vice president of the Confederacy in a stormy debate on the House floor) were eloquent, creative, and often quite effective -- they were simply overwhelmed by the brutal forces of reaction. Covering the fraught period between the Emancipation Proclamation and Jim Crow, Dray reclaims the reputations of men who, though flawed, led a valiant struggle for social justice.--Publisher's note



Can Georgia Do Right? (David Morse) Troy Davis seeks closure in the form of justice
Hakeem Babalola articles -- The Second Slavery Ship  Living with Immigration Torture   A Nightclub Forbidden to African  Nigerians Blood on their Hands 
Gambian Godfather   They Make Me Hate My Type   Life as African Hungarian  African Hungarian Union  
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The Meaning of Barack Obama
By E. Ethelbert Miller
It Must Be Lester Young
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    Rudy's Place : Sussex County: A Tale of Three Centuries  Public Education in Sussex County in Black and White   History of Jerusalem Baptist Church
A Short History of When the Levee Breaks--On Saturday [30 August 2008], a million citizens fled Louisiana for safer ground, after Hurricane Gustav metamorphosed into a Category 4 hurricane in a mere 24 hours. It is scheduled to slam into the U.S. almost exactly three years after Hurricane Katrina did the same, visiting the kind of disaster dystopia one usually sees in film or music. . . . Louisiana authorities explain that there will be no shelter for those left behind or who choose to stay behind. It's a familiar refrain for those caught up in this recurring environmental nightmare, perhaps more familiar than you think. "When the Levee Breaks" was first created by the Delta bluesmen Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie. Listen to the original.  / Where's Fats Domino? 
 
The Crossings
(WHO IS prepared to hold our torch of Democracy)
By Beverly Jenai
Do Cowboys Dance?   That Which Binds   The Painting  My Friend Yictove   Bevjenai Obama Order Page
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The Cost of Lies -- America With Its Pants Down    The Dark Side of Obedience    Locked Up   A Lie Unravels the World  Lies Truth and Unwaged Housework
in the hot house of black poetry
another furious flowering--Kalamu ya Salaam -- Part I / Part II  /  Part III  /  Part IV  / What Is Black Poetry
      Claire Carew files:  The Artist as Social Activist   From Birmingham Alabama to Qana Lebanon   It Ain't About Race   Healing Wisdom of Mexico 
Sitting ducks at the superdomeClaire Carew: Giving Voice Through Art   
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After Katrina
By Mackie Blanton
Commentary on ChickenBones--I want to say that you have given a wonderful gift to humankind by establishing and maintaining ChickenBones.  In the history of African American journals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, I rank your magazine with Negro Digest/Black World, which was "blessed" to have the financial backing of Johnson Publications. It is required reading for people who wish to be informed about the trajectories of thought in the contemporary world.  It is a dynamic, growing textbook that ought to be used in courses on African American literature and culture.  I am using it as an external link for the course I teach this semester on the Foundations of African American Literature.  My students need to know that academic journals do not tell us everything. So, thank you Rudy for your gift to black folks and everybody else. Peace and brotherhood, Jerry Ward, Jr. (24 August 2008)
 
Where is the French Obama?
Thoughts for Today
By Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
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Jerry Ward: Table & Bio THE KATRINA PAPERS    Trouble the Water The Katrina Papers  Making Peace with the Loss of Things    After the Hurricanes
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