Featured Blog Posts – January 2009 Archive (11)

NYMetro BOYCOTT STELLA D'ORO PRODUCTS. "No Justice, No Cookies!"

Since August 2008, 135 Stella D'Oro workers (mostly women)were forced to go out on strike due to BRYNWOOD PARTNERS', the company bosses, greedy attempt to drastically slash their pay, pension and benefits. The drive for super profits is driving these corporate rich to steal more from workers and to attempt break their union. Solidarity with these workers is growing. Give your concrete support.

JOIN THE MARCH DOWN BROADWAY!

JAN. 31 * 11AM * 237 St & Bway

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Added by KWASI Akyeampong on January 28, 2009 at 12:54pm — No Comments

Are you utilizing your natural gifts and talents? Find Your Authentic Voice!

Norma Hollis FREE Live Events

The Authenticity Movement comes to the Bay Area

In today's climate of falling economies, endangered

ecologies and unregulated human greed and need it

is time to establish authority for truth and correctness

and enhance a genuine and sincere focus on the

common good. Norma's… Continue

Added by SendMeYourNews on January 26, 2009 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Canada My LITERARY LIFE

I never set out to be the first black writer of fantasy and sword-and-sorcery fiction. The position had remained open for quite a while, and when I began to write for the purpose of publication (as opposed to school assignments and personal scribbling), it was still there, and mine for the taking.

The road that led me there featured plenty of twists and turns, but the direction in which it led was always plain. I started reading science fiction in the late 1950s, when I was what is… Continue

Added by Charles R. Saunders on January 20, 2009 at 1:44pm — No Comments

South Lets Carnival !!! It's Time for Black History Month

What About Black History Month, Makes it Deserve a Blog Carnival -

Since we're celebrating the election and soon to be inauguration of Barack Obama as the nations 44th president. Do We All Remember the road that led him there ?

as our contribution to History - During the month of February 2009 BadGalsRadio will sponsor the 2009'…

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Added by RE Ausetkmt on January 18, 2009 at 1:25am — 1 Comment

NYMetro WCAR: Statement about the Durban Review and People of African Descent

Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent

Eighth Session Geneva, 12-16 January 2009

Statement about the Durban Review and People of African Descent

Presented during the Session, January 15, 2009.

By African Canadian Legal Clinic, African Women’s Movement in Europe “Sophiedela”, Stichting National Monument the Netherlands (LPS/Panafstrag Europe NL), Tiye International, Pan-African Roots Organization, The University of Dayton, Afro Swedish National… Continue

Added by TheBlackList on January 16, 2009 at 10:31am — No Comments

NYMetro Fund Raiser for Rev. Edward Pinkney an Heroic Fighter for Justice

From Freddie Pinkney

banco9342@sbcglobal.net;

Dear Friend,

We are making an urgent appeal for Rev. Edward Pinkney and his family due to a miscarriage of justice.

Summary:

First he was found guilty of election fraud by an all-white jury who were motivated by something other than the truth.

Then he was falsely accused of violating probation and… Continue

Added by TheBlackList on January 13, 2009 at 6:30pm — No Comments

INAUGURAL MEETING OF BLACK NATIONALIST AND INDEPENDENT BLACK COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS/ACTIVIST

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January 12, 2009

INAUGURAL MEETING OF BLACK NATIONALIST… Continue

Added by SendMeYourNews on January 12, 2009 at 3:30pm — 1 Comment

NYMetro Under the Reign of the First Black President, Will America Lose Another Generation of Black Males?

By Phillip Jackson

The previous generation of young Black males was destroyed between 1985 and 2005. No amount of crying, cursing or hand-wringing can change this because that generation is gone! We need only walk down any city street in almost any predominantly African American community to see residue of the broken lives -- millions of young Black men nationwide. Few people spoke out effectively and even fewer engaged in actions to… Continue

Added by TheBlackList on January 9, 2009 at 8:17pm — 3 Comments

2009 National Juneteenth Events Schedule

(Belzoni, Mississippi) - The National Juneteenth Observance Foundation (NJOF), National Juneteenth Christian Leadership Council (NJCLC), and Juneteenth America, Inc. (JAI) announces the 2009 National Juneteenth Events Schedule. The establishment of Juneteenth as a National Holiday Observance, the preservation of our African-American jazz legacy and providing opportunities for reconciliation and healing from the legacy of slavery are among the… Continue

Added by SendMeYourNews on January 9, 2009 at 10:54am — No Comments

DC Area What Black America Can Learn from Communist China

What Can Black America Learn from Communist China?

Build Businesses and Prosper

By Robert N. Taylor

When it comes to China, the numbers are truly astounding. The Asian giant has the fastest growing economy in the world - averaging roughly 10 percent growth per year for the past 25 years. By way of contrast, if we in the United States grow by just three percent, our economists consider that good news.

In fact, China is growing so rapidly that it expects to build a… Continue

Added by Robert Taylor on January 7, 2009 at 2:40pm — 3 Comments

New book - Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918

Jeffrey B. Perry newest book Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem

Radicalism, 1883-1918.

"Hubert Harrison was an immensely skilled writer, orator, educator, critic,

and political activist who, more than any other political leader of his era,

combined class consciousness and anti-white-supremacist race consciousness

into a coherent political radicalism. Harrison's ideas profoundly influenced

"New Negro"… Continue

Added by SendMeYourNews on January 3, 2009 at 10:09am — No Comments