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Africville - Sixth Region Diaspora Caucus - Town Hall

2012-01-26T00:34:00.000-05:00

Town Hall Meeting Took Place Where Africville Once Stood

Building International Unity and Working Towards Economic Recovery in the African Nova Scotian Diaspora Community

Sixth Region Diaspora Caucus International (SRDC) and Ujaama
Building International Unity and Working Towards Economic Recovery
in the African Nova Scotian Diaspora Community
“Remember the Ant”: Town Hall Meeting Took Place Where Africville Once Stood
In recognition of the United Nations declaring 2011, the “International Year for People of African Descent”, the Ujamaa Association and the Sixth Region Diaspora International present, Remember the Ant: An African Family Town Hall Meeting at Africville Park, August 22, 2011;
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“You aren’t an African because you were born in Africa,” he tells the town hall audience. “You’re African because Africa was born in you.” - David Horne

President Obama Presents 2012 State of the Union/Enhanced

2012-01-25T00:15:00.000-05:00

I noticed there was no mention whatsoever of African Americans and our econonic situation nor was the prison industrial system addressed. Now I know singing a line from Al Green is cute but it's not that damned cute. Black folks need to take a page fron Eugene Debs on this one. In case you don't know he said " It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it."

Police brutality in Johannesburg 12/01/12

2012-01-24T14:56:00.000-05:00

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JOHANNESBURG (12/01/12) A taxi driver was dragged into a puddle and ordered to swim because he laughed at a police officer. A woman was pepper-sprayed and beaten with a stick because she wanted to close her shop. And a human rights worker had his phone confiscated and was arrested for taking photographs of a soldier beating a shopkeeper with the butt of his R4 assault rifle.

Parts of Joburg resembled a war zone on Thursday as the SA National Defence Force, the SAPS Tactical Response Team and customs officials took part in Operation Festive Season for a second day on Thursday

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African Canadian Conference on Anti-Black Hate 2009

2012-01-22T20:52:00.002-05:00

National African Canadian Conference on Anti-Black Hate that took place in Ottawa in March 2009

Over three days, 200 legal experts, academics, youth and community leaders went to workshops and listened to speakers on poverty, education, health and the media.
Organizers, including Margaret Parsons, who heads the Toronto-based African Canadian Legal Clinic, hope the conference will lead to a national policy with co-ordinated strategies to address critical concerns within the black community.
The timing of the conference was ideal because many black Canadians are feeling increasingly ignored and let down by their public institutions, including schools, governments, the police and the media.
Indeed, for some, this is a community under stress.
In many ways, blacks in Canada have made great strides in recent decades. But in other ways, they've seen little progress since the 1950s.
As a group, black Canadians are poorer, less educated, less healthy, more likely to be unemployed or in jail than virtually every other racial or ethnic community.
Nowhere is this lack of progress more evident than when it comes to racially motivated hate crimes.
Blacks are the third-largest visible minority in Canada, exceeded only by the Chinese and South Asian communities. And yet 48 per cent of the victims of racially motivated hate crime are black. By comparison, at a distant 13 per cent, South Asians are the second most frequent victims of such crime.
What's worse, anti-black hate crime is on the rise, according to Statistics Canada data.
Hate crimes can include graffiti, oral comments, vandalism, arson, assault, even murder. Incidents can take place at work, in schools, shopping malls and hockey arenas.

I tried to find some followup info on this conference but was unsucessful. In the absence of followup material I thought I might look at the comments to get some kind of feedback on how people were reacting to this conference but - guess what? Anyway I hope this post will help to generate some interest in conditions addressed by the participants of the conference, peace.

Remember Africville - A short film

2012-01-11T12:55:00.002-05:00

To this day, Black families of Africville remember the razing . Even though this event took place over four decades ago, memorials, organizations, societies, stories, art works and more have sprung up as a result of this destruction. To me this demonstrates the intense will to survive as a community, found among Black Nova Scotians and is worthy of the highest praise. The presence of such people from the earliest time is one of the things that makes Canada a great country. Let's hope she can appreciate these illustrious founding citizens.

The History of Africville As Told by the People of Africville

Flipsyde - Happy Birthday - ORIGINAL

2012-01-09T09:56:00.000-05:00

Building Community Radio in Communities of Color

2012-01-05T08:47:00.003-05:00

I am trying to pass this info along and so I have copied it more or less. If any of the links do not work just google and I'm sure you'll find something.

Community radio is an excellent tool for engaging members of the community, we must take advantage of this project if we expect to rebuild and strenghten our local communities. If this works as planned the entire country can only benefit.

Civil Rights on the Airwaves

Building Community Radio in Communities of Color

Thanks to the passage of the Local Community Radio Act, 2012 offers the largest expansion of community radio in U.S. history. But for whom?

Radio remains relevant in our communities, yet people of color own only 7 percent of radio stations. Commercial media consolidation and unfair restrictions on community radio have narrowed already limited access to the airwaves for communities of color. Unable to get an FCC license, Albert Knighten was recently arrested and charged with running an unlicensed station serving the black community of Dunbar, Florida with gospel music and local public affairs programs. With an opportunity to transform the national radio landscape on the horizon for 2012, Knighten will miss his own arraignment to come to Washington and share his story. He will join other grassroots leaders from across the country to discuss the challenges and successes of building community radio in communities of color.

The event will be webcast on this page for those who are not in the Washington, DC area. Online viewers can Tweet questions with the hashtag #civilrightsonair.

Cosponsored by Prometheus Radio Project, Media Action Grassroots Network, Color of Change, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Free Press, and New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative.

PARTICIPANTS

Featured Speakers

Kai Aiyetoro

Board of Directors

Prometheus Radio Project

John Freeman

Founder and Executive Director

KOCZ in Opelousas, LA

Albert Knighten

Founder

Dunbar Community Radio, Dunbar, FL

Jabari Moketsi

Founder and CEO

Gullah Sentinel, Beaufort, SC

Danielle Mkali

Media Justice Organizer

Main Street Project, Minneapolis, MN

Steven Renderos

Media Justice Program Director

Main Street Project, Minneapolis, MN

Moderator

Corrine Yu

Senior Counsel and Managing Policy Director

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

Special introductions

Rashad Robinson

Executive Director

Color of Change

Joe Torres

Senior Adviser for Government and External Affairs, Free Press

Co-author of News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media

Betty Yu

Coordinator

MAG-Net

EVENT TIME AND LOCATION

Monday, January 9, 2012 - 4:00pm - 5:30pm

New America Foundation

1899 L Street NW Suite 400

Washington, DC 20036

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Auld Lang Syne The Stylistics

2012-01-01T00:48:00.000-05:00

SEASONS GREETINGS!!!

2011-12-31T20:17:00.000-05:00

Nina Simone "Feelings" (Montreux Jazz Festival)

2011-12-30T09:06:00.000-05:00

Nina Simone was an artist that presented herself from the bottom of her soul. In my opinion the following clip is a presentation as opposed to a performance. What we see here are Nina's "feelings" coming to life on stage. The few other clips that I have seen from that time at the Montreux Jazz Festival were equally compelling each in their own right.

I'm not going to fill up with the clips from that show here but if you're interested, go to youtube and enter "NINA SIMONE live at Montreux,1976" in the search box. I promise you won't be dissappointed, unless someone takes these clips off youtube.

Denzel and Spike Chat it Up

2011-12-19T00:07:00.000-05:00

R.I.P. Cesaria Evora

2011-12-18T17:27:00.000-05:00

Finding Black Heritage

2011-12-16T14:37:00.002-05:00

I just "Discovered" a web site called DISCOVER BLACK HERITAGE. I believe it's going to become one of my favorite web sites, not only does it contain tons of information regarding the Black experience in America. It is also well written, well illustrated and easy to navigate. This web site is geared towards travellers, in that they feature different regional attractions all across the country as well as some international spots, the topics including;

Black Colleges
Exhibitions
Festivals
Good Eats
Heritage Tours
Museums
News
Readings
Sites

The graphics and and photos are wholesome and upbeat and in my opinion are suitable for the use with even younger students. Another plus is the fact that so many businesses as well as artistic and cultural institutions catering to the interests of Black people are being promoted. Check it out and let me know what you think.

http://discoverblackheritage.com

A Heart to Heart to the Black Man from Djehuty Ma'at-Ra

2011-12-15T10:51:00.000-05:00

I happened to come across this video on a site that I want to review in a while but in the meantime our brother Djehuty Ma'at-Ra has a few words I feel we could all give a listen to.

Djehuty Ma'at-Ra

Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu Speaks

2011-12-10T00:05:00.001-05:00

Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu
Author, Lecturer, Teacher, Preacher, Educator and Scholar. Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu, educated at Morgan State, Illinois State, and Union Graduate School has been a guest speaker at most universities throughout the U.S. I want to post a sampling of his work via Youtube in the hope that you will look into more of his inspiring body of work.

Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys

"Too Important to Fail" Teaser 3 - Jawanza Kunjufu, PhD

State of Emergency

Jawanza Kunjufu

Bernie Sanders Proposes to Amend The Constitution

2011-12-08T18:28:00.001-05:00

I agree with the Senator. It's time for people to make a stand.
A corporation is NOT a Person, if it is then we are all corporations.

Black Grassroots Politics In Action - Economic Justice

2011-12-02T09:12:00.000-05:00

My wish is to see these folks hook up, along with everyone in between and let's get a serious movement going.

New Jersey
Remembering Rosa Parks with 365 Consecutive Days of Protest for Economic Justice

Detroit
DETROIT GROUP CALLS FOR GENERAL STRIKE, MAKE BANKS AND CORPORATIONS PAY

"Oscar Grant's killer back on trial" on the @colorofchange blog

2011-11-27T13:28:00.000-05:00

Well who'd a thought it?
Who knows how many other people he brutalized under the guise of a public servant. The man is a public menace, who wouldn't hesitate to shoot an unarmed incapacitated man in the back. Apparently he had no qualms about beating another man who was out-numbered as well. I think it's pretty safe to assess that he and his ilk are cowards that have no business being in a position where they are able to abuse their authority and the system does itself a disservice by not taking those who do abuse that position, to task. There will come a time when the karmic chickens come home to roost and those who did try to do right by the job will suffer along with the rest."Oscar Grant's killer back on trial" on the @colorofchange blog

DR Congo's Nyamulagira volcano's spectacular eruption

2011-11-16T07:29:00.000-05:00

Occupy The Hood calls youth of African descent to improve their world

2011-11-07T13:38:00.000-05:00

Occupy The Hood calls youth of African descent to improve their world

For young people of African descent, Occupy The Hood is this generation’s civil rights movement.
Launching Occupy Wall Street took only three days. How long will it take us to Occupy The Hood?

Minister Farrakhan Blasts Media & Reporters During Radio Interview Comme...

2011-11-04T15:37:00.001-04:00

I came across this on Black Talk Radio. Ouch, Farrakhan is not pulling any punches.

MORE MARY MATTERS Brady Enterprise Association

2011-11-04T15:01:00.000-04:00

I found this web site that is just bursting with Black Heritage.
I can only imagine the work that went into compiling then putting this site together. I find it a little difficult to follow since it doesn't quite fit on my browser but there is so much info that I don't want to take a chance on missing any of it, so I'll tough it out and do what I have to to read it all.
I'm using Safari and Firefox on a Mac, I haven't tried it on a PC yet. Anyway like I said before, for me it's about content and the work that has gone into putting this amount of info together really deserves making an effort to read it.

Mary Lee Brady, Ph.D.

8 year old guitar whiz Quinn Sullivan and Buddy Guy

2011-11-04T12:51:00.000-04:00

JSMH CMH & PMF

Rap Sessions-Hip Hop & Race Urbana College... Sept 2009 w/ Oliver Wang &...

2011-11-03T23:45:00.000-04:00

Brother Daveyd Rides Again.

FROM NOTHING TO SOMETHING: YOUNG BLACK MEN WITH A MESSAGE

2011-11-03T14:33:00.000-04:00

When I saw the following video, I knew that something special was going on. I spend a lot of time scouring the net, for signs that we are ready to use the mediums that are coming available but I don't usually find anything that gets me worked up.

The young Brothers at FN2S have it going on. They are presenting quality productions (content wise) without the need for a Hollywood Studio. I don't doubt that some day the opportunity will present itself. I only hope that when it comes it won't come as an an attempt to tone them down. In the mean time we need to do all we can to see that their efforts are distributed as far and wide as we can get them.
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Africville - Sixth Region Diaspora Caucus - Town Hall

Town Hall Meeting Took Place Where Africville Once Stood

Building International Unity and Working Towards Economic Recovery in the African Nova Scotian Diaspora Community

President Obama Presents 2012 State of the Union/Enhanced

Police brutality in Johannesburg 12/01/12

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African Canadian Conference on Anti-Black Hate 2009

Remember Africville - A short film

Flipsyde - Happy Birthday - ORIGINAL

Building Community Radio in Communities of Color

I am trying to pass this info along and so I have copied it more or less. If any of the links do not work just google and I'm sure you'll find something.

Community radio is an excellent tool for engaging members of the community, we must take advantage of this project if we expect to rebuild and strenghten our local communities. If this works as planned the entire country can only benefit.

Civil Rights on the Airwaves

SIGNUP

Auld Lang Syne The Stylistics

SEASONS GREETINGS!!!

Nina Simone "Feelings" (Montreux Jazz Festival)

Denzel and Spike Chat it Up

R.I.P. Cesaria Evora

Finding Black Heritage

A Heart to Heart to the Black Man from Djehuty Ma'at-Ra

Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu Speaks

Bernie Sanders Proposes to Amend The Constitution

Black Grassroots Politics In Action - Economic Justice

"Oscar Grant's killer back on trial" on the @colorofchange blog

DR Congo's Nyamulagira volcano's spectacular eruption

Occupy The Hood calls youth of African descent to improve their world

Minister Farrakhan Blasts Media & Reporters During Radio Interview Comme...

MORE MARY MATTERS Brady Enterprise Association

8 year old guitar whiz Quinn Sullivan and Buddy Guy

Rap Sessions-Hip Hop & Race Urbana College... Sept 2009 w/ Oliver Wang &...

FROM NOTHING TO SOMETHING: YOUNG BLACK MEN WITH A MESSAGE