Sunday, July 25, 2010

History is being read - Les Brown

From: http://www.livingmydreams.tv/
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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.
Les Brown
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
Les Brown
All of us need to grow continuously in our lives.
Les Brown
Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.
Les Brown
Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.
Les Brown
Forgive those who have hurt you.
Les Brown
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
Les Brown



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Thursday, July 22, 2010

NBPP - Black Power or Black Rage ?

Geraldo speaks/debates with Malik Shabazz of the New Black Panther Party.




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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Pam Grier the actress, author, & activist

"My dad, Clarence Grier, was a strappingly handsome man with tremendous strength in his hands. I could literally feel youthful energy shoot through his fingers. He was kind and loving to me, and the scent of his cologne combined with the crisp, starchy smell of his clean Air Force uniform delighted me. A loving, carefree man, he was my mom’s hero. He was so light-skinned, he could pass for white, which caused him a lot more trouble than if he had clearly looked black or white. His mom was mixed, and his blue-eyed dad was mixed but looked white, so he never really fit in anywhere."
- Pam Grier

Some may know her as hot, gutsy, gun-totin' Foxy Brown, Friday Foster, Coffy, and Jackie Brown. Others may know her from her role as Kit Porter on The L Word. But that only defines one part of the legend that is Pam Grier.

Foxy is Pam's testimony of her life, past and present. In it, she reveals her relationships with Richard Pryor, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Freddie Prinze Sr., among others. She unveils her experiences as a backup singer and a blaxploitation star. In particularly candid and shocking chapters, she shares-for the first time-her view of those films and the persecution that blacks, especially women, needed to endure to make a name for themselves . . . including how it felt to be labeled one of the most beautiful women alive, yet not be permitted to try on clothes in a department store because of the color of her skin. And in words sure to inspire many, she tells the story of her ongoing battle with cancer.

From her disappointments to her triumphs, nothing is held back. With FOXY, Pam wishes to impart life lessons to her readers-and hopes to touch their hearts.



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Shirley Sherrod: FULL NAACP Speech

Shirley Sherrod Speech: FULL video.

In her speech, Sherrod, who grew up on a farm in Georgia, said she desperately wanted to move to the North after high school, but that her father's murder spurred her to stay and commit herself to helping black people. (He was killed in 1965.) Sherrod said over time - in part because of her experience with the white farmer she realized her goal was to help poor people, not black people.

in the video are the stories Sherrod recounts about her family and growing up in the South before and during the Civil Rights movement. Her father was murdered when she was 17 "by a white man," she says, adding that in her county back then, "the murder of black people occurred periodically and in every case, the white men who murdered them were never punished." No one was ever prosecuted for her father's murder even though there were witnesses, says Sherrod. She also says after her father's murder, a group of white men burned a cross on the front yard of her home while her mother, four sisters and baby brother were inside.

Shirley Sherrod is not, by this accounting, a person out of touch with the racial history of America. Listen to her speech and it's clear this history is something she remembers vividly; her message to the NAACP audience seemed to be that if she can move past it, so can anyone else.

The theme of Sherrod's speech, which she repeats in various iterations throughout is, "It's not about race. It's about those who have and those who do not." In other words, Sherrod tries to impart to her audience that those who believe America - and the South in particular - is divided because of race miss the point. It's divided, she says, because of income.

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Sunday, July 11, 2010

Still We Rise ($1 Million Dollars)

Still we rise !
Young brother receives over $1M in scholarship funding !
Booker T. Washington's 2010 Graduation Motivational Performance !

2010 Graduation from Atlanta's Booker T. Washington High School

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http://www.apsk12.org/media/VIDEO_PAGES/BTW_Val2010.html

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Tim Wise & White Privillige

Wise provides a non-confrontational explanation of white privilege and the damage it does not only to people of color but to white people as well.

Tim Wise is among the most prominent anti-racist writers and activists in the U.S., and has been called, "One of the most brilliant, articulate and courageous critics of white privilege in the nation," by best-selling author and professor Michael Eric Dyson, of Georgetown University. Wise has spoken in 48 states, and on over 600 college campuses, including Harvard, Stanford, and the Law Schools at Yale and Columbia, and has spoken to community groups around the nation.

Wise is the author of five books: White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son; Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White; Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections from an Angry White Male; Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama, and his latest, Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity. He has contributed essays to twenty-five books, and is one of several persons featured in White Men Challenging Racism: Thirty-Five Personal Stories, from Duke University Press. He received the 2001 British Diversity Award for best feature essay on race issues, and his writings have appeared in dozens of popular, professional and scholarly journals.

Wise has provided anti-racism training to teachers nationwide, and has conducted trainings with physicians and medical industry professionals on how to combat racial inequities in health care. He has also trained corporate, government, entertainment, military and law enforcement officials on methods for dismantling racism in their institutions, and has served as a consultant for plaintiff's attorneys in federal discrimination cases in New York and Washington State.

In summer, 2005, Wise served as an adjunct faculty member at the Smith College School for Social Work, in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he co-taught a Master's level class on Racism in the U.S. In 2001, Wise trained journalists to eliminate racial bias in reporting, as a visiting faculty-in-residence at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida. From 1999-2003, Wise was an advisor to the Fisk University Race Relations Institute, in Nashville, and in the early '90s was Associate Director of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism: the largest of the many groups organized for the purpose of defeating neo-Nazi political candidate, David Duke.

Wise has appeared on hundreds of radio and television programs, is a regular contributor to discussions about race on CNN, and was featured in a segment on ABC’s 20/20, in 2007.

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Sunday, July 4, 2010

Farrakhan on Jews' Ma'fa involvement

Excerpt from 'Who Are The Real Children of Israel?' done on June 26, 2010.






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