TheBlackList's Blog – September 2011 Archive (7)

AU Diaspora Task Team meets, Visioning African Diaspora as the 6th Region of the African Continent

AFRICAN UNION DIASPORA HIGH LEVEL MEETING

The biggest gathering of selected high caliber African Diasporan will take place on Thursday, October 6, 2011, during the African Union Diaspora High Level meeting organized by the African Union Diaspora Task Team to aggressively pursue the concrete realization of the dream and…

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Added by TheBlackList on September 27, 2011 at 7:37pm — 1 Comment

International Dialogue on State-building and National Development in South Sudan

International Dialogue on State-building and National Development in South Sudan

Convened by the African Research and Resources Forum (ARRF) and the Centre for Peace and Development Studies (CPDS) at the University of Juba, Juba, South Sudan

September 23- 23, 2011

Foreign policy options for the Government of…

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Added by TheBlackList on September 26, 2011 at 6:00pm — No Comments

President Obama's Mission Impossible

By H. Lewis Smith ~

Upon Barack Obama's election to President of the United States, euphoria, jubilation and an aura of disbelief simultaneously enveloped the Black African-American community. Perhaps, it could even be said that many saw him as a Messiah and the primary power-holder to make life and living better for Blacks. Seemingly, Black African Americans became complacent and blinded by the historical, unprecedented election of America's…

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Added by TheBlackList on September 21, 2011 at 12:42pm — 2 Comments

Cameroonians, Go Out and Vote: Kah Wallah, President of Cameroon

"S'ils…

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Added by TheBlackList on September 19, 2011 at 9:05am — No Comments

Think Outside the Bars: Why real justice means fewer prisons by Michelle Alexander

by Michelle Alexander

June 8, 2011

PEEK INSIDE THE SUMMER 2011 ISSUE OF YES! MAGAZINE

A white woman with gray hair pulled neatly into a bun raises her hand. She keeps it up,…

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Added by TheBlackList on September 14, 2011 at 11:00am — No Comments

Marcus Mosiah Garvey, A Call for Exoneration of the Founder/President General of the UNIA-ACL

Universal Negro Improvement Association-African Communities League Official Statementon the Exoneration of Honorable Marcus Garvey, Founder and President General of the UNIA-ACL, 1914-1940.

The official position of the UNIA-ACL Parent Body on this issue is that the Honorable Marcus Garvey deserves to be completely exonerated and not merely pardoned.

A pardon* — especially a partial pardon — is a tacit…

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Added by TheBlackList on September 12, 2011 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

Black America, Pardon the Interruption

By: James Clingman ~

Considering the fact that Black people are so entrenched in the distractions of this world, I think it’s appropriate that I beg your pardon, Black America, in order to get a few important points across. Although for 16 years now I have sounded the economic alarm via this newspaper column, four books, and numerous speaking engagements, it is shameful that we have failed to act upon the messages of…

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Added by TheBlackList on September 5, 2011 at 4:23pm — No Comments