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ChickenBones: A Journal for Literary & Artistic African-American Themes |
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ChickenBones: A Journal -- Historic Website -- Collected by Library of Congress (Ich habe negerschwer gearbeitet. - Rudy) |
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Send contributions to: ChickenBones: A Journal / 13219 Kientz Road / Jarratt, VA 23867-- Rudy, I don't know if I've mentioned it recently but 'bones looks great. There's not much out there to compete with it as a presenter of Black literary and philosophical thought. I'm constantly referring folk to it. Chuck (9/28/07) We have received thus far $50 in Donations in July 2008. Help meet our monthly goal of $500. Donate Today! or Visit Our Store (Books, DVDs, Music, and more) Or make use of ChickenBones Publishing Services |
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Bring the Troops Home: "A time comes when silence is betrayal." A Time to Break Silence by Rev. Martin Luther King 4 April 1967 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 Carré: The United States of America Has Gone Mad / |
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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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Cynthia McKinney Deserves Your Support, Obama Does Not A Campaign Foreign Policy Focus By Glen Ford |
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Ekere Tallie --Forced Entry A Poem for A Man WhoKnows Elemental Sounds Permanent Rain Reunion Jazz Musicians Suddenly I Need One Thing Constant |
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Just Another Fine Gentleman of African Extraction with Polish and a High IQ—Economist Glenn Loury |
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Zimbabwe and the Question of Imperialism: A Discussion Hosted by Amy Goodman Black Africa's duty to help Zimbabwe defeat sanctions (Chinweizu) / The Real Trouble with Zimbabwe (Ogbunwezeh) |
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Deng and Alek: Lovers Paradise Lost Short story by Jane Musoke-Nteyafas |
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Sexual Morality, Black Male Abandonment, and Stable Households (Lewis) |
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After Hours: A Collection of Erotic Writing by Black Men -- Simmons Review After Hours Contributors / Love, Sex, and Erotica Table |
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Short Story by Onyeka Nwelue |
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Ralph Nader on Obama and Blackness—"There's only one thing different about Barack Obama when it comes to being a Democratic presidential candidate. He's half African-American," Nader said. "Whether that will make any difference, I don't know. I haven't heard him have a strong crackdown on economic exploitation in the ghettos. . . . . "Is it because he wants to talk white? He doesn't want to appear like Jesse Jackson? We'll see all that play out in the next few months and if he gets elected afterwards. . . . I mean, first of all, the number one thing that a black American politician aspiring to the presidency should be is to candidly describe the plight of the poor, especially in the inner cities and the rural areas, and have a very detailed platform . . . " Nader said. "Haven't heard a thing." . . . "He wants to show that he is not a threatening . . . another politically threatening African-American politician," Nader said. "He wants to appeal to white guilt. You appeal to white guilt not by coming on as black is beautiful, black is powerful. . . . ."—RockyMountainNews |
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The New Paradigm for Financial Markets The Credit Crash of 2008 and What It Means -- Book Review by Kam Williams |
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How US Energy Policy Got Militarized—The association between "energy security" (as it's now termed) and "national security" was established long ago. President Franklin D. Roosevelt first forged this association way back in 1945, when he pledged to protect the Saudi Arabian royal family in return for privileged American access to Saudi oil. The relationship was given formal expression in 1980, when President Jimmy Carter told Congress that maintaining the uninterrupted flow of Persian Gulf oil was a "vital interest" of the United States, and attempts by hostile nations to cut that flow would be countered "by any means necessary, including military force." To implement this "doctrine," Carter ordered the creation of a Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force, specifically earmarked for combat operations in the Persian Gulf area. President Ronald Reagan later turned that force into a full-scale regional combat organization, the U.S. Central Command, or CENTCOM. Every president since Reagan has added to CENTCOM's responsibilities, endowing it with additional bases, fleets, air squadrons, and other assets. As the country has, more recently, come to rely on oil from the Caspian Sea basin and Africa, U.S. military capabilities are being beefed up in those areas as well. Alternet |
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AFL-CIO Head Says White Workers Need to Look Beyond Race—The labor movement needs to educate its members that if they care about keeping their jobs, health care, pensions, and creating good jobs, they should support Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill), the presumptive Democratic candidate for president, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka said July 1. . . . Trumka said that "a lot of white folks...a lot of them good union people, just can't get past this idea that there is something wrong with voting for a black man." Trumka received a standing ovation from the 3,000 delegates when he said, "those of us who know better can't afford to look the other way." The labor movement has a responsibility to challenge "racism" because "we know, better than anyone else, how racism is used to divide working people," he said. Trumka [and the] AFL-CIO June 26 endorsed Obama and said it would launch its biggest ever grassroots mobilization effort to educate working families about Obama and the "anti-worker" polices of his opponent Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). . . . Obama has always been on labor's side and has voted with labor 98 percent of the time, Trumka said.BNA |
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Straying from Official Orthodoxy A ChickenBones editorial by Rudolph Lewis What do you say to fathers . . . (Joseph Jordan) Obama Insults Half a Race (Glen Ford) Sexual Morality, Black Male Abandonment, and Stable Households (Lewis) |
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Black Librarians Table / David Parks' Letters / A Post Industrial Blues / Monroe N. Work Intro / Monroe N. Work Bibliography of the Negro |
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Response of Southern Sudanese Intellectuals to African Nationalism By Albino Deng Ajuok Why South Sudan Want Obama to Lose White House Bid (Mulumba) / Obama and the Israeli Lobby (Uri Avnery) |
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Ernie K-Doe: The Emperor of New Orleans R&B 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 |
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Notable Black Memphians by Miriam DeCosta-Willis—This biographical and historical study by Miriam DeCosta-Willis (PhD, Johns Hopkins University and the first African American faculty member of Memphis State University) traces the evolution of a major Southern city through the lives of men and women who overcame social and economic barriers to create artistic works, found institutions, and obtain leadership positions that enabled them to shape their community. Documenting the accomplishments of Memphians who were born between 1795 and 1972, it contains photographs and biographical sketches of 223 individuals (as well as brief notes on 122 others), such as musicians Isaac Hayes and Aretha Franklin, activists Ida B. Wells and Benjamin L. Hooks, politicians Harold Ford Sr. and Jr., writers Sutton Griggs and Jerome Eric Dickey, and Bishop Charles Mason and Archbishop James Lyke—all of whom were born in Memphis or lived in the city for over a decade. . . . |
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The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones / Biblical Scholars / ChickenBones Interviews / Depression Shopping List Your Whiteness is Showing (Tim Wise ) Lingering Issues in Achebe's Female Characterisation (Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye) Book Discussion: The Beautiful Struggle (video): Atlantic contributor Ta-Nehisi Coates reads passages Nuking Nagasaki & Hiroshima, Our Nuking Nevada / / Like a Tortoise Shell / Asa G. Hilliard III Obituary
The Exhilarating Generosity of Asa Hilliard / Slow Death in Gaza (Margaret Kimberley) "Djimbe Danse" Artwork (left) by Chuck Siler |
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Driving Drops as Gas Prices Hit $4—The Department of Transportation said figures from March show the steepest decrease in driving ever recorded. . . .Compared with March a year earlier, Americans drove an estimated 4.3 percent less—that's 11 billion fewer miles, the DOT's Federal Highway Administration said Monday, calling it "the sharpest yearly drop for any month in FHWA history." Records have been kept since 1942. . . . According to AAA, the national average price for a gallon of regular gas rose to a record $3.936. That compares with an average price per gallon of $3.23 last Memorial Day. . . . The Energy Information Administration says gas consumption for the first three months of 2008 is estimated to be down about 0.6 percent from the same time period in 2007. For the summer season, gas consumption is expected to be down 0.4 percent from last year Money AOL |
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Rattlers and Other Acts of Love An Obit Assembled by Rudolph Lewis |
We Are A Dancing People Leslie Garland Bolling Wendy Stand Up with Your Proud Hair! Badge of Honor: Coming of Age |
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Gullah Festival in Beaufort South Carolina, 2008 by Junious Ricardo Stanton |
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Mary E. Weems Table Say it Loud: Poems about James Brown On Almost Meeting Alice Walker |
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Recommendations to the Congress to Curb Monopolies and the Concentration of Economic Power—The first truth is that the liberty of democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. The second truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if its business system does not provide employment and produce and distribute goods in such a way to sustain an acceptable standard of living. The rise of the corporate state has grave political consequences, as we saw in Italy and Germany in the early part of the 20th century. Antitrust laws not only regulate and control the marketplace, they serve as bulwarks to protect democracy. And now that they are gone, now that we have a state that is run by and on behalf of corporations, we must expect inevitable and perhaps terrifying political consequences.—Franklin Delano Roosevelt on April 29, 1938 |
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A Literary Anthology by Gang Members and Their Affiliates Edited by Louis Reyes Rivera and Bruce George Debuts @ Hue-Man Book Store & Café / Monday, June 9, 2008, at 6pm |
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Flagrant Racism: The Democratic Party Crisis / Jeremiah Wright: Warrior and Trickster Obama 2008 Table |
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The Ancestral Spirits Are Watching (Jeannette Drake) / Plato on Obama Drama (Marvin X) / Clinton and Obama Legislative Records I am because we are and since we are therefore I am (The Soho of South Africa ) / The society made up of brothers and sisters provides strength. (Igbo of Nigeria) |
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Running to the Right: Barack Obama's DLC strategy (Bruce Dixon ) |
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I think Obama's candidacy is an extraordinary event, and I see it not mainly through the generational lens or even through the racial lens. I see it through the way that he frames conflict, political difference. He wants to transcend and not litigate some of these open questions from our culture wars and out past political wars. It's not as if he's saying we have to extirpate every remnant of the Reagan era, we have to go after every right-wing this or right-wing that. It's as if he wants to say, "It's a whole new day, let's redefine the questions and let's change the agenda." But the other thing that I wanted to say about Obama is with respect to blacks who are voting to Barack Obama in 90 percent levels in the primary season, and who constitute a very important element of his political coalition. I don't know that they recognize that they're voting for the end of race as we've known it in the country. I don't know that they recognize and I don't mean to belittle them. I'm just asking a question. I'm not sure they recognize that—Glenn Loury, PBS |
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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 |
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Eating the Rich: Resolving the Dilemma of Black Criminality / The Intellect of the Negro Is Discussed, 1835 |
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Subconscious connection between blacks, apes may reinforce subtle bias -- Penn State Faculty/Staff (ALL) Newswire - 03.06.08 |
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Black Librarians Table / David Parks' Letters / A Post Industrial Blues / Monroe N. Work Intro / Monroe N. Work Bibliography of the Negro |
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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 |
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Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye Will Obasanjo Explode Yar'Adua's Anti-Graft Balloon? Who Cares If Kenya Bleeds To Death? Obasanjo's Probe: Mr. Ribadu’s Redeeming Job / In Nigeria, Yar’Adua Reigns, Obasanjo Rules / Dinner From A Lagos Dustbin Global News: Politics Visit Our Store (Books, DVDs, Music, and more)
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Ten Days That Changed Capitalism—Officials Improvised To Rescue Markets (Wall Street Journal ) / The Economy, Workers, and Financial Markets Table |
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Economic Crises in Jamaica By John Maxwell Why South Sudan Want Obama to Lose White House Bid (Mulumba) / Obama and the Israeli Lobby (Uri Avnery) |
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Of St. Augustine, the African Restless Heart, and Search for Peace: St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430 A.D.) – Feast Day - August 28 Dr. Rose Ure Mezu / Preface to Chinua Achebe: The Man and His Works (Rose Ure Mezu) / Chinua Achebe: The Man and His Works |
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Kerner Commission Report Forty Years After Eisenhower Foundation Updates |
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Larry Ukali Johnson-Redd—— Listen to Conversations of Africa by following this link: http://www.conversationsofafrica.asmnetwork.net/ You are invited to listen to this and join in the conversation and make it a discussion by calling in and participating at 347-215-7831! Remember this segment will begin at 8 PM Pacific Standard Time! Conversations of Africa / Attending The Ninth National Black Writers Conference / Larry Uklai Johnson Redd Table |
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With the Lost Boys in Southern Sudan Nuba-Darfur-South Sudan Table Obama 2008 Table It's too little and too late to overcome the bursting housing bubble—Research has estimated that the next recession could increase unemployment by 3.2 million to 5.8 million people, and poverty by 4.7 million to 10.4 million, with at least 4.2 million also losing health insurance. . . . Hard times ahead highlight the need for structural changes such as universal health care and labor law reform. These and a bigger, "green" fiscal stimulus that would reduce carbon emissions should be pushed to the top of the political agenda.—Charlotte Observer Hallmark of a totalitarian state—Before they seize power and establish a world according to their doctrines, totalitarian movements conjure up a lying world of consistency which is more adequate to the needs of the human mind than reality itself; in which, through sheer imagination, uprooted masses can feel at home and are spared the never-ending shocks which real life and real experiences deal to human beings and their expectations. The force possessed by totalitarian propaganda—before the movements have the power to drop iron curtains to prevent anyone's disturbing, by the slightest reality, the gruesome quiet of an entirely imaginary world—lies in its ability to shut the masses off from the real world—Hannah Arendt |
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A Brief for Whitey Response to Barack Obama Speech on Race By Patrick J. Buchanan |
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By Floyd Hayes, III, Ph.D. |
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Why are 1 in 9 young Black men in prison? James, Van, Gabriel, Clarissa, Mervyn, Andre, and the rest of the ColorOfChange.org team |